People who might have written Shakespeare’s plays

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The ale-pushing hand of Kit Marlowe’s ghost; metaqueen Elizabeth the zeroth; Prospero, of whom Shakespeare is the lightly fictionalised equivalent; a passing bear; they are a group effort and ongoing in-joke of the time travelling community; they are the work of trees trying to decipher human behaviour, each peer-reviewed by more than a dozen larches; Bacon (two slices of); Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas More than that; Sir Thomas Most; Stonehenge but with fingers; Don Quixote; you (having the advantage that you may have read them first); the dark lady; a vague but pen-having sense of patriotism; in a stunning twist, it was the anthropomorphic personification of the authorship question itself; Shakespeare.

I personally like the time-travel community theory the best because it means every once in a while they can go back and add more, and we all just think “Holy shit, it’s impressive one man with a quill and parchment wrote 23 29 31 33 37 45 52 plays of such quality! “ because it keeps happening before any of us have been born. 

Like “Yeah Much Ado About Nothing is a classic of course but I personally think his version of Medusa is a more feminist play.”  “Oh, like how I appreciate Midsummer Night’s Dream but The Comedie Of Many Friends is just plain funnier.” 

(The Comedie Of Many Friends is really just four episodes of Friends rewritten to contain more dick jokes and is 100% not as funny as Midsummer but there’s no accounting for some peoples’ tastes.)