This movie presented the idea that Shakespeare didnt write all of the plays that he is so famously acredited, since he was, afterall, illiterate. Rather the movie says that they were written by a wealthy English nobleman, who couldnt publish the plays himself because it was illegal for nobility to participate in writing, because it was thought to represent false idols.
Overall I enjoyed the movie, even though it was quite hard to follow. I think that Shakespeare probably wrote the plays, in my opinion. I think that its not necessarily true that we never will know if Shakespeare wrote them, we could look for accounts of the time and see how Shakespeare acted. For instance if he was a writer you would think that he wouldn't be as drunk and cocky and brazen as the Shakespeare in the movie. I also liked how the movie was set up to be a play itself, that an audience was watching.
Yes the whole story within a story is cool. And it possibly would be characteristic for a writer to be drunk and cocky. This was a popular but not widely accepted profession. It was scorned by the church and religious people of the day so it would make sense that they would be the "outcasts".
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