Poll: William Shakespeare, did he exist?

[silver wolf009]

(First Thread woo)
The immortal William Shakespeare has been known by almost all of humanity ever sense he burst onto the theater scene in england. But did he ever really exsist? There are a group of people in the world who argue that William was an imagination, that his works are real but there was a diffrent writer or writers. Which do you believe?

Edit: let me make this clear, i full believe in shakespear's exstince, both as a person and as a sucessful writer, sorry if it came off as that i didn't.

 

[El Poncho]

Please tell me this is a joke, ofcourse he bloody lived, they even know where he was born and a lot about his life .

 

[Saul B]

He did exist. All that is disputable is whether or not he wrote his material or if his ideas are all original. It is well known that most of his plays are adaptations of famous legends.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Who is this William Shakespeare you're talking about?

Jk, Of course he existed.
I killed him in a duel.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Danik93]

Welcome!! ofc he existed it's probably the same guy that claiming that we didn't land on the moon!

 

[cthulhu257]

*facepalm*

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

He existed. Oh, believe me. How else did I shake that great man's hand?
Well, before TheModeRazor killed him in a duel.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

He did exist, we have enough evidence to prove that. Whether he actually wrote his plays is still debated, though I believe that he did.

And for the record, we did land on the moon and Jesus also did exist.

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[fix-the-spade]

Given that his life besides writing was rather mundane, he was probably real.

Writer's wouldn't make the gretest writer ever a largely unexciting man from Stratford who married at 18, had three kids and was generally normal except for writing some unusually popular plays. They'd make him some kind of superhero.

 

[dajuberjaber]

what gave you the idea that he didnt exsist

 

[Aloran]

He did exist. However there is a lot of debate as to whether his works are entirely his own and not plagiarised from other writers.

There should be an option that he did exist but maybe didn't write his own work.

 

[ribonuge]

I'm studying King Lear and have done MacBeth and The Merchant of Venice. The man was a genius and he did exist. That's like claiming that Darwin never really existed or Galileo was really an antelope.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

I..what? He did exist, his existence is irrefutable.

So..what are you smoking these days?

 

[JacOak]

Galileo was really an antelope.

Best... thing... ever said. EVER.
And, as much as everyone has already said it, 'course Shakespeare existed. But his name wasn't really William Shakespeare, it was Bill Waggledagger. He changed it to pull the punters.

 

[Aardvark]

He never existed. Literary culture was only developed a century ago. All the culture throughout history was written at the beginning of last century and attributed to mythical historic figures by a cabal of historians, librarians and English teachers, for the sole purpose of a trading commodity with highly literate Aliens. Shakespeare, The Iliad, the Bible, all works of fiction created and planted throughout history, as the Aliens cared naught for anything that did not carry historical significance. In return, we got the first computers and vague instructions for the Internet, which were implemented as soon as our top linguists were able to translate Alien text.

 

[stabnex]

I'm going to start stabbing you now... I'm.. not sure if I'll be able to stop.

 

[JacOak]

Snip.

Wait... what? I really hope this is a funny.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

I've never seen this being disputed before...

Of course he existed.