I have a degree in English and teach it. I always knew there was a woman or women behind Shakespeare's works. It often pains me to think about all of the inventions, great thoughts, works etc., from women throughout history that have been credited to men or that haven't reached the potential they could have because women were held back for so long. Societies, civilizations have suffered because 50% of the population have been suppressed.
Misogynistic men will always point out how “women never did anything for society, men created everything” completely ignoring the centuries of women who lead nations, created art and inventions and life saving medical care… who had their work stolen or demolished. modern history is so backwards
On a podcast I listened to there was a man explaining that there aren't great scientists anymore. That all the great inventors and thinkers etc were crazy thats why but I'm starting to think we have "great" inventors, scientists, and thinkers of the past because the majority of their work were made by groups of women
@@heyeveryone This conversation reminds me of an Andrea Dworkin quote - 'No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.' So much of history is retold or forgotten. A lot of it women's.
I always felt that a woman wrote Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. No way a man completely got those feminine emotions as spot on as Shakespeare did.
Ha! This reading made me think of the movie "Shakespeare in Love". (There were rumors that Shakespeare was bisexual due to the wording of some of his sonnets.)
When Ant said “Allegedly for entertainment purposes only” I had this image in my head of Shakespeare coming out of the grave to try to sue and I can’t thinking about it now 😂 great reading! Sounds like something that would happen especially back then.
The wealthy person Ant is talking about is literally Queen Elizabeth and I love he doesn’t know! The Elizabethan era was considered one of the most successful British monarchy. She enhanced the arts in a big way and was Shakespeare’s patron. And I’m terms of a building I was thinking the Globe theater until you said religious so I’m not sure. I’ll have to brush up on my history about that
I think the repairing could have to do w Protestant vs catholic especially since Bloody Mary was queen Elizabeth’s sister. And their father broke from the church to divorce Mary’s mother and marry Elizabeth’s mom which led many to question her legitimacy
Romeo & Juliet is just a retelling of Tristan & Ysolde from the Jewish community. Nobody came up with that, its been told thousands of times over the centuries.
Omg, yes! Ant should do more historical reading. For example, who killed Julius Caesar? Was there a female pope, there’s been rumors of way back in the day. Also, if there was a higher power backing Abraham Lincoln?
A distant cousin of mine was friends with Edgar Allen Poe. His name was William Jewett Pabodie. Edgar Allen Poe wanted my cousin poet ex girlfriend of my cousins. No matter how he tried she wasn’t interested in Poe. 😂
@@LifeofBga It also makes me think about the countless paintings you see titled 'unknown woman' while most paintings you see of a man include his title and information about who he was.
She didnt theres a bunch of documents that say otherwise. HOWEVER doing a reading on Katherine Howard would be sooo interesting because historians debate about KH all the time
Back then, if someone had an apprentice their work would go out under the master's name. But I also think Shakespeare was the frontman for a collective who couldn't all put work out publicly. Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Kit Marlowe, and whoever else made up the School of Night AKA The School of Atheism.
Shakespear was part owner of a theater that was frequented by royalty. The group of men who were owners were known to help esch other because most of them were poets and playwrights. Some of the wives did contribute through there hudbands names. Your spot on. The globe theater caught fire and all of them did stuff to rebuild the theater. Even the royalty helped.
I was an English major in college and we took a class on Shakespeare. My professor showed us a few plays from Greek and Roman mythology where the plot was very very similar to Shakespeare’s plays. One play was The Menaechmi and Twelfth Night. I don’t remember the others. I found that very interesting. My professor said that it looks like Shakespeare may have been inspired by these Greek and Roman plays, and used them to make them more modern for his own time.
I mean, I read that as Shakespeare WAS a woman who used an alias to write her stories. I've always thought that as well. The way these stories are written always seemed to give feminine energy to me 🤍 could be wrong but anyways, always love your readings and the thoughts they ignite!
This was great! It would be fun if you followed up with the Anne Hathaway (the actress) conspiracy. Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway and Anne Hathaway the actress's husband looks just like Shakespeare. People are saying they came back in this life so she could be the star this time, which was all I could think about during this reading, if she wrote some of his stuff, this would make sense, lol.
Now, I need their astrology charts....the real ones. Good luck on that one. Even when they're given it's rarely the real deal. The industry often makes the stars younger than they are to keep their careers around longer and even then, they often skew the proper details.
The theory is that Queen Elizabeth I was the ghost writer. As a member of the crown she wasn’t allowed to receive money from a “common” job. She was known for incredible works of literary art but wasn’t allowed to publish them. She was also a huge patron of the arts and more than quadrupled the crown’s portfolio. It was also theorized that her love, Sir Walter Raleigh was the real Shakespeare who she propped up as the writer. Again, she couldn’t marry him because he was a common man so her love went unfulfilled. She had to do things behind the scenes and died unmarried because she wouldn’t marry anyone else. She was the second monarch, after her father, Henry VIII destroyed the connection between English rule and Catholicism, who ruled under the Protestant Faith which was brought about through the reformation! Phew. English degree didn’t go to waste!
Hi Ant, I have a degree in English Literature and am an English Teacher. I also read tarot. There is evidence that Shakespeare would collaborate with other writers - his handwriting has been identified on a page of a play about Sir Thomas More, largely written by Anthony Munday, and a few others. You can see the page featuring his writing online through the British Library. It doesn't surprise me that he may have collaborated with women to write some of his strong characters. He also used many of the original medieval history plays to inspire his work. The building that burnt down and needed repairing that you are talking about might have been the original Globe Theatre in London, which burnt down in 1613, but was rebuilt the next year, before Shakespeare's death in 1616. The second reconstruction was demolished about 1645, and the current Globe was opened in 1997. It has been argued throughout the centuries whether Shakespeare was gay or even bi - it is usually accepted now that his Sonnets were dedicated and written about a young man. Some of his other romantic work also appears to be about a young woman of colour.
I stayed in the New Yorker hotel for my birthday a couple weeks. I new nothing about Tesla spending the last ten years of his life in I forget if it was suite 3327 or 3328. Me and my boyfriend were given room 3330. I instantly felt something when we got off the elevator onto the floor but didn’t feel spooked by it. My boyfriend on the other hand stayed up all night because he felt like he was being watched.
❤ Ant, my cousin Laura Smither just had her murderer convicted last year from her death in 1997, along with 3 other victims. There is a new netfix special about it called tx killing fields. But they skipped over a lot of recent info about the trials at the end. There is so much weird stuff about her case I'd love to hear your take. She was one of the best people ever❤
Oooh!!! Just the type of intrigue I needed today as an Anglophile 😍😍 I just found out one of my ancestors was the basis of a Shakespeare character in the Temptest, so I’ve been revisiting his work and one thing is sure, Shakespeare seems larger than life
Stephano Americano, partly based on my ancestor Stephan Hopkins who was marooned on an desert island for 8 months and almost put to death for mutiny. There are stories about him here on RU-vid 💓
Please do a reading on Harper Lee and Truman Capote! It’s widely speculated that Capote was the actual author of To Kill A Mockingbird, not Lee. She never wrote another novel, and the prequel (Go Set A Watchman) she supposedly did write was not at all in the same style as Mockingbird (which further drives home speculation that it was indeed Capote’s genius style and prose rather than hers).
@@eyeseeyou7952 The fact that there’s such little information on Shakespeare himself is a huge part of why people initially believed he was actually composed of multiple ghost writers. He wrote for king James the 1st who was a literal patron of his The Kings men (this was a HUGE deal at the time) so there should be reasonable enough documentation on him he wasn’t a regular person in the 1500s nor would be whomever he was married to. And I meant sketchy as in the literal Cambridge definition that yes his nor his wife’s identity is thoroughly detailed. Which for his status doesnt necessarily align, but the little we do know about her all makes sense with ants reading. I went to school for this but what do I know right?
@@eyeseeyou7952 You’re just literally not making sense. Kick rocks and poorly critique elsewhere. Say that about the literal video which is on one big conspiracy theory. Also not your baby anonymous weirdo on the internet bye.
would love to see you do more readings about historical figures, most notably the women back then (mary queen of scots, queen charlotte, matoaka, anastasia, katherine howard as examples)
There's things about Shakespeare that do interest me. I havs a feeling the plays that he allegedly wrote may have possibly been ghostwritten. We couldn't go back in time, but there's always an air of mystery when it comes to Shakespeare himself. Through this reading alone, we get to know more about him in full detail. We appreciate your effort and hard work, Ant. You'll always have our support.
A true crime reading I’d love to see is the Springfield Three. Two young high school graduates and one of their mothers went missing from their home without a trace. No signs of a struggle, minimal to no evidence, pretty much no suspects and a couple of questionable sightings. This case drives me crazy. Lol.
I think it would be fun if you could do a reading on Nostradamus. Also as far as a star reading. I would really love if you could do a reading on Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. Please, i would love to know what really happened. Did he really take his own life or did he get suicided? A lot of people believe Chester and Chris Cornell were taken out.
I teach HS English, and specifically, I teach Shakespeare every year. He definitely used inspiration and other people’s ideas for his texts, but as far as who wrote it, we will never know. I believe it was actually him, but again, was given stories by friends /followers. I also tell my students that he was definitely bi-sexual. There are letters out there written for,and by, his male lovers. He was heavily sponsored by King James I and Queen Elizabeth. So I do believe it’s possible that he was given ideas by them, or maybe even had some parts written by them in “secret” because they would never be allowed to publish anything for themselves.
Yes!!! I love lighter topics like this!!! I believe they haven't been able to find any historical documents confirming he exists. So maybe it was a group of women who couldn't get recognized using their own names. I've also heard the theory that there were policial figures who wanted to write but writing was looked down on at the time, so they all used the name William Shakespeare
@@ktj8074 An "avatar" as many would say. Many youtubers use "avatars" when not wanting to show their actual faces. A lot of people believed that he wasn't a real person but simply a "pen name". A lot of people think Jesus was white in today's drawings when the earliest drawing of him shows he has tan skin and black curly hair.
Ant - you wonderful, wonderful man! Many years ago at university, I wrote an essay examining whether William Shakespeare was the true author of ‘his’ plays and sonnets. The topic has fascinated me ever since. My personal hope is that Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe authored the works. He was gay and I wonder if that might show as a somewhat feminine energy (Queen of Swords)? It can’t be Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, as she was illiterate or mostly illiterate and signed her name with an X-mark. Astonishingly, Shakespeare’s children were also illiterate. I’ve always wished that you would do a reading on it… and here you are! THANK YOU! x
Maybe the figure head seen was the connection he had to Elizabeth I. He was known to have her favor regarding entertainment. As a repressed women herself(despite being a queen), those emotions were probably hitting home.
Very intriguing. I want more true crime - you should do Lucy Letby, the UK nurse who was recently sentenced for killing newborn babies but says she's not guilty
@@TheAvgWoman Yeah I know, it's just so bizarre how her personality/upbringing doesn't fit the profile of a serial killer so it would be fascinating to find out what was going on in her mind and what caused it in her
@@eyeseeyou7952 It's too surfacey to declare people as either bad or good... with that kind of dichotomous thinking humanity never develop any real awareness of the actual causes and how to prevent these incidents ever happening again to others.
@doom3798 what else are true crime readings for? To develop awareness of what actually causes a person to do this, and know how to prevent similar incidents happening to others
@@eyeseeyou7952 There were no firsthand eyewitnesses. True crime readings can help us develop awareness of true motivations which can do something to prevent such incidents happening again. The psychologists usually never agree or fully understand the causes
So my grandmother and my mother always used to tell me the story of how it was actually a woman who published/wrote, but due to women not being able to be known publishers, or affiliated with acknowledgment in playwright or entertainment, that he pretty much was the face for her story to get out there. And that this was very common during that time. And that many female writers had to have their husbands or a male figure step forward for them, and take claim on their work. There was one other famous writer that acknowledged on his deathbed that his wife was the author and not him, but I can’t remember their name right now . I live you ; you’re always so spot on ❤❤❤ Side Notes ideas :: 1-Flat earth conspiracy 2-does Prince William have a secret love child conspiracy. 3-The opera and Maui conspiracy . And one conspiracy that I have wanted to ask you for so long to do is the Beatles conspiracy . So the band the Beatles with Paul McCartney John Lennon, Ringo, and the other guy.😂 there has been a conspiracy theory since 1966 that the original Paul McCartney died in a car accident and the managers replaced him with a look a like (William Campbell ) and that John Lennon and band members have put secret messages in several of their albums; and that their management team not only threaten their lives, but cause physical harm to them to keep the secret silent. It was also brought back to the attention when Paul McCartney‘s wife had an interview mentioning that she knew the truth about her husband, and if the world knew they wouldn’t be able to handle it. There’s literally nobody else who could do justice to that reading. I beg you to take a look into the Beatles, conspiracy theory and judge for yourself, but I for one will an obnoxious fan girl for this tea 🫖 🔥💯 I hope some of my suggestions you find interesting and if anybody is reading this may they dare go down a rabbit hole on any of the ones I’ve mentioned. Good luck to you all plenty of love all around. Xoxo 💋
I love your comment! I heard murmurs about The Beatles conspiracy theory but didn't give it much thought. It surely is interesting. It would be amazing if Ant did a reading on it!
Paul's not dead. That conspiracy's just stupid and based almost entirely off him looking different in different pictures taken years apart with different lenses and different angles. 🙄
During Shakesperian times were many version of the same subject which were translated into plays. For example, during Shakespeare's time there were at least 4 versions of Hamlet and usually the audience dictated which was the best one. Of course there were the patrons, who sponsored/commissioned the plays for different occasions. Shakespeare was thought to have been inspired or have his work written by Christopher Marlowe (but he died rather young, about the first quarter of Shakespeare's life), Francis Bacon (he died also young), - both said to be have been homosexuals -, then another theory was about the Earl of Oxford - most likely the one who couldn't have been an artist/writer due to their position in society - the artists were seen as vagabonds. The women involved... absolutely no idea who could it be.
Mary Sidney, also know to have worked with artists and writer at the time. Only thing is with her and the others you have mentioned, they have other public written work, which was not very good or notable. I think the words are him tho, it had to have been one person. But conceptually probably a collab.
@@Fairy_dust908 I have always loved the idea that one man - just ONE man - could have been born in the course of history so talented that he wrote that impressive work from scratch to glory. Well, maybe such man has not fullfield their potential in their lifetime. At least, we have Shakespeare....
@@finnev Same! I always hated the Oxfordian argument "poor people can't be smart". No one ever questions if Jon Webster was the true author of his works, only because his work isn't considered genius. But he also came from humble beginnings and became a successful playwright. I also have doubts however. The only possibility was Mary Sidney, who was known to work with artists and died after Shakespeare's last play was written. All art its a collaboration, people steal ideas from others like Anthony said. It's impossible to know.
Not a Shakespeare expert but do have a degree in English. Here’s some things to note based on this reading: - There are many theories that multiple notable men are the actual authors of Shakespeare’s work but they’ve pretty much been debunked. Many of these theories started floating because some find it hard to believe the uneducated Shakespeare could write well. However, it is entirely possible Shakespeare sourced ideas and writings from others. - The building that needed to be repaired or maintained is likely the Globe where Shakespeare’s plays were performed. It burned down, was rebuilt and this is where Shakespeare and his acting troupe performed making money from these performances to maintain the theater of which he partly owned. - His troupe was made up of men but his plays are heavy with complex women so if he had some feminine help to write these characters that would make sense. - Shakespeare was married with three kids but his wife, Anne Hathaway, never moved with him to where he worked on his plays so they kind of lived separately though he would come home from time to time. He wrote sonnets and there was a dedication to a “Mr. WH” but no one has figured out for sure who that is and some claim the printer added that - He was kinda like a pop star in his time and his actors were just as known. Very Aaron Sorkin situation. He was likely the writer but he had talented people behind him likely contributing to his writing. On a personal note, I’ve always found it odd how little info we have on him. Odd for him to be well known even in his time and so little is on record about him. It’s absolutely possible he was front for others but, if he was, find it hard to believe he just didn’t exist at all.
I would love to see a reading on Katherine Howard. Many historians debate if she was being blackmailed by culpepper or if there was an emotional affair going on
I love the conspiracy! I don't really care what the average celebrity does😂 I'll watch it and i love anything you do but I'm totally more into conspiracies
I knew when I got the notification I had to see it. I don’t doubt that women had a role in writing back in the day that was silenced. Makes you think. Love this reading Ant❤
1. I am not surprised it was a woman or a group of women. It was a rumor back when I was in middle school that Shakespeare was a front or "persona" because no women could have any works done. It's said that the queen of England that time had funded "Shakespeare" for their plays. The QUEEN. It makes sense by the high position of power! 2. YES, GAY PEOPLE TOO. It makes that they would use a gay man to help publish their work. It's said that a famous Italians painter was a gay man too. The writer of the Little Mermaid was bi. He said it was a reflection of "wishing to become a woman to be with a man". 3. YES IT DOES FIX "TRANSLATING". It was said that many of the works were basically called "historical fanfiction" but I am starting to think maybe its the canon history instead it being "fanfiction". Shame again that religion, ONCE AGAIN, hurts women and feminine people. I know the majority of history is only written by the "winners" and not the "truth"
I'm an English literature graduate and have always wondered about this. Many of Shakespeare's plays reference Italy, even though he wasn't from a rich family and barely travelled. As for the female energy, Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne until 1603, so he may have been influenced by the prevailing ways of life under her reign. Many of his plays used disguise and surprise (e.g. a female character pretending to be male) so the theme of things hidden/gender swapping was prevalent. Women used male names to get their work published for centuries (George Eliot was really Mary Ann Evans, Currer Bell was really Charlotte Bronte etc) because no-one would take them seriously otherwise. Also, the Globe Theatre in London, which put on many of his plays, was destroyed by fire in 1613 and rebuilt a year later. Shakespeare died in 1616, so his final months may well have been spent grinding out plays to raise funds for the rebuilding.
At that time, women could not be actors, or players, in a play. The female roles were played by men, which added to the comedies. Perhaps Shakespeare really is a women with a male pseudonym, or fake name.
English major here, answering your bat signal! 🙋🏼♀️😛 While Shakespeare's plays didn't explicitly aim to mend religious gaps, they did fuel meaningful discussions on ethics and morality. By challenging societal norms and peeling back layers of human complexity, they encouraged freedom of thought and empathy. They weren’t parables, but your reading makes me ponder on the thought that they could have had similar intentions- they share some ground by encouraging people to have deep reflection on topics of morality. Interesting reading!
This is unexpectedly one of my favorite readings now!!! I didn't even know this was a debate. I love thinking of him as a pop star. I also think he got a lot of his ideas from his wife.
Will you please do a reading on Atlantis? I was curious if there was a spiritual war going on between yin and yang. I'm curious how it fell twice. I would appreciate it.
There was. There were the people that lived in a Utopian type of way and there were those that strayed from truth and righteousness, stealing, lying, etc. The number of people that strayed and the crimes they committed slowly grew and it saddened and pained the people that were good. They tried to help rehabilitate the strayers, but to no avail. The society crumbled as a result.
English major, studied Shakespeare, visited the Globe, and am a writer. The thing is, he’s the greatest writer in the English language. Opinion, of course, but he’s working on so many levels it’s taken thousands of audiences, readers, and professors four hundred years to begin to understand all the layers, nuance, and meaning in his work. He invented hundreds of words we use today. If he’d written only one of his plays he’d still be considered a genius. I don’t see how his oeuvre could be the work of multiple people, personally, because a group doesn’t tend to make writing better, let alone brilliant. Particularly when it’s this level of inventiveness, originality, and volume. His writing is as unique as a fingerprint. That said, he borrowed extensively from older plays, myths, lore, history, anything and everything. I love the idea there were women giving him ideas and I don’t have trouble believing that. I agree with the other commenter saying he was trying make money to save the Globe theater. I wonder with the religious aspects if it had anything to do with the schism between Catholicism and the Anglican Church (started by Elizabeth I’s father, Henry VIII). Could Shakespeare have been a hidden Catholic hoping to heal the breach with Rome? I don’t know much about the theories around his religious views but since that was one of the most divisive issues of the day it’s one way to look at that part of your reading. Or he could have been a passionate Anglican trying to uphold the modern faith, who knows. But there were many underground Catholics at the time. I enjoy your readings very much, Ant! Thank you!
Holy sh*t, I love that you did this! I've never thought Shakespeare was Shakespeare, given how he was so lacking in education and travel. I was a stan for Christopher Marlowe, given his role in literature and espionage, but the idea of it being Queen Elizabeth (or even another aristocratic lady) is kind of amazing. More of these, please!
OH MY FUCKING GOD. I was told that Shakespeare was a copycat/thief by my spirits a few months ago. I fucking feel like this is confirmation. In particular, Hekate does NOT like Shakespeare, let me tell you that.
If anyone is interested, I recommend listening to the podcast episode by Historian Dr. Kate Lister: Betwix the Sheets, episode: Shakespeare's Sex Life. She spoke to an author who has written multiple books on Shakespeare. They both talk about his relationship with his wife, Anne, and the separate life they would have lived due to him working in London, with his wife and children at home in Stratford-Upon-Avon (very far from London, especially in those days). There isn't a whole lot known of Shakespeare, he led a private life. Though as I said, you can assume he and his wife had two different lives, and they discuss the possibility of him being gay, and perhaps he and Anne having an arrangement or agreement. It's well worth a listen, and the host, Kate, is very fun to listen to, and for a historian has a great sense of humour, so it's not a dry listen.
Talking about conspiracies, could you please do a reading about The Monalisa? Many say it wasn't painted my Leonardo Da Vinci! it would be super interesting to find out. Thanks!
I just now remembered that when I was a kid, I actually heard this rumor,i just don't remember where.. oh wow,i guess everything that's hidden in the dark,will come to light eventually 😮
In regards to the 'repairing' of religion or a building. Queen E was the second ruler of the Church of England after her father, King Henry VIII started the new religion and moved away from the Catholic church so he could marry his many wives. Queen E was very clever and used the arts to start bringing the people closer to the Church of England by encouraging reading, people learning new trades (she started cities from nothing by bringing a master Artisan, giving free housing and paying for apprentices to learn the trade and then gave them affordable housing so she could build her tax base); the Roman Catholic Church did not allow non clergy to read religious texts but the Church of England did. She had a master astrologer who did all of her electional astrology to plan for important events, including her progress, or visits, to the different cities in the country.
Francis Bacon was the powerful person. He created a literary circle called the Frau Rosi Cross. The members were known as the invisibles. Contemporary of Shakespeare.
Not a guy stealing from a woman, well is it really a surprise?! I m really sorry you get backlash for content you do, its stupid people give you backlash when its very simple, if there is any content people dont like just dont watch, there is no need to be nasty, people believe or dont. I really like your true crime readings and astrology are my fav, your really good and accurate!watch you for years 🎉😘❤️
The powerful woman you mentioned could be Elizabeth I. She was a patron of Shakespeare and supported his work. But she was a very powerful woman and well-educated. She wrote some of her own poems in her day and the cards pulled line up with her.
Omg, love all your insights but this one was soooo fun, halfway thru your interpretation I got a flash of a group of women that were feeding him storylines and then right after I had that thought, you SAID it! And yes I also got a flash that he was one of the girls (my gut hunch was bisexual) and he would hang out at brothels drinking, half the women were “service workers” but super into magic etc and as you know he was considered the “soap opera writer” of his day, in other words he had his hand on the pulse of what everyone (rich, poor, hi status to lo-status) wanted to hear about…it seems like a willing collaboration and they fed him the best gossip around! Who would know more than the brothel vixens that serve up alcohol and sex lolol… english major, read a ton of Shakespeare but by no means an expert…I think you are dead on with this!!! Loved it!❤
And the people at the brothel had all sorts of ties to folk magic circles because it was a gathering place for everything (not accepted by mainstream society) and they had to treat the girls when they got pregnant or sick with what they could afford (plant/ herbal medicine)…I’m sure they had wild nights dreaming up all sorts of narratives to ply Shakespeare’s imagination (no tv back then, Shakespeare was considered the collective guilty pleasure entertainer!) So he had to be in constant collaboration in order to churn out juicy, raunchy, drama filled slices of life! Lonnnng winded message I know but you hit the nail on the head!😮
I have a degree in English lit. I wonder if the the high status/influential person involved was Queen Elizabeth I. She was a big fan of Shakespeare during their time, however it is unclear if they have ever met. Also at another point in the video where you suggested that Shakespeare may have been gay. There have been theories lingering around for many years that question his sexuality. Sonnet 20 specifically is written about another man! Interesting. As for the restoration question you have the only thing I can think of is the play called, Richard III. It has been thought this play was used to further implement and spread Tudor propaganda at the time. Richard III is accused of killing his nephews to obtain the throne, however this has not been proven. The play conveys Richard as an evil king with a humpback and a lot of dark and twist imagery was used to describe him as such. Some researchers have suggested that Richard may have been misunderstood. He was obsessed with avenging his brothers death and he wanted to take the throne as a means to honor his brother and protect his nephews from a difficult role due to them being children (but who really knows?).The play Richard III was utilized to display the York family in a bad light and to uplift the Lancaster family. Before Elizabeth’s time there was a war fought between the royal family called the War of Roses. Basically, a war fought between the Lancaster and York family to determine the right to the throne. To make this comment shorter, since Elizabeth (someone of Lancaster) eventually took the throne she obviously would have wanted to make the York family look as bad as ever so her subjects will respect her position as Queen even more. This was also used to prove her right to the throne since some people at the time did not believe the Tudors were the right family to take the throne since it was previously occupied by the York family. As for religious purposes you mentioned, Shakespeare was a known protestant so he probably used his plays to promote protestantism. Queen Elizabeth I was a protestant and so was her father Henry VIII it was important to both of them that their subjects were and remained protestant.
Ant can you please do a reading on Jaclyn hill! I remember a while back you mentioned she was surrounded by “yes men”. The brand owners she screwed over mentioned she in fact is!
MA English Literature here. It was very common back then, (and well into today) for wives and female partners to help their writer male counterparts with typing, editing, even writing and research in some cases but of course they were not usually named on the front of the work. It’s possible Anne Hathaway was one of these women. Helping and giving ideas, but not necessarily to the extent that she would have full authorship rights. In most cases it would be quite right that they would not have full rights, but crediting them with their contribution would have been nice.
Thank you for this! I’ve suspected he lifted 1/2 his work, or perhaps he’s a ghosted writer as it were? There was another play-write that they’ve suspected William worked with/stole from. Some computer program ever broke down what was Will’s vs the other author
I would like to request the two Princes in the tower, a British history drama….allegedly their uncle had them killed To this day no historians can resolve it I hope you can thanks x
Is it possible that one of the women who was involved in the works that were put out under Shakespeare's name was his wife, Anne Hathaway? I don't know many details about their relationship but they were married from the time Shakespeare was 18 until he died. Perhaps she had a major influence on him. It is known that she was a writer herself as well. Not sure if this has to do with anything, but the saying, "behind a successful man there is a great woman" is also running through my head. Just wondering if this might be true in this case! Also, great reading, very eye opening! Seems like maybe Shakespeare wanted to create a way for a woman's voice to get out there, despite the times they were in! Of course it's sad that women couldn't be as successful as men in those times, but perhaps he became a way for someone to get their work out there. As you said, maybe it wasn't 100% not his writing but still. Great job!
This reminds me of a lady Chopin was in a relationship with. She went by a man’s name George Sand and dressed like one to be taken seriously as a writer. For true crime, please do a reading of Kai the Hitchhiker. He went viral and is in prison. Natalia Grace’s case is strange and inspired the movie Orphan.
@@southrnsweety88 turns out the movie was actually inspired by Barbora Skrlova but there are similarities with Natalia’s case and the film that people connect the two.
Have you heard about the theory going around that the actress Anne Hathaway’s husband is William Shakespeare reincarnated and Anne Hathaway is his wife reincarnated? William Shakespeare’s wife’s name was Anne Hathaway also
I thought you were about to tell us Shakespeare plagiarized. But he was trying to help the girlies during the renaissance period? I stan Thanks ant for another great, entertaining reading! Always giving us perspective, clarity, and laughs 💕
I am pretty sure there was an old wood building that was a popular place for plays that burnt down. It could be wanting to bring back a certain play style (that focused on the sets that majorly effect the stories/writing). So maybe that has something to do with repairing the old ways of things that ant was talking about towards the end. I'm not sure! Never took a formal class just on Shakespeare.
There’s an old book by Manly P. Hall which talks exactly about the fact that Shakespeare is a group of people. Wow. If you really didn’t research that, your skills a making me speechless
