When the rogues were talking about Shakespeare Cara mentioned we know who Shakespeare was, that he was a dude, that we know who he was married to and so on.
It is surprising to most people that we know very little about who Shakespeare was (yes he existed and was a man and we know who he married but for the most celebrated playwright of all time you'd think we'd know more.
All we know for certain is that Shaxpere, Shaxberd, or Shakespear, was born in Stratford in 1564, that he was an actor whose name is printed, with the names of his fellow actors, in the collected edition of his plays in 1623. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, and died in 1616, according to legend, on his birthday, St George's Day. The so-called "Stratfordian" case for Shakespeare rests on these, and a few other facts, but basically, that's it.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/mar/14/who-wrote-shakespeare-james-shapiro
I’m pretty certain I saw Shakespeare’s grave a few years ago when I visited Stratford-upon-Avon. I could have visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage but I didn’t bother.
I went to a staging of ‘Hamlet’ by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I’m very ashamed to admit that it was the first Shakespeare play I’d ever seen. It was very long (I was extremely grateful for the interval) and ‘interesting.’ It was set in a modern African country with the actors armed with AK-47s, but talking in Elizabethan English.
I’m sometimes bemused by directors feeling the need to update the classics. I went to a Wagner Ring Cycle in Leipzig last year. In ‘Siegfried,’. Mime was conspiring to get Siegfried to kill Fafner with his sword, despite having his own AK-47, and could have done it himself.
DevoutCatalyst,
I’ve always imagined that the trolley in the runaway trolley problem was a very small one, perhaps one of those hand operated ones, small enough to make it plausible to be derailed by running into a large person.
If you’re going to imagine a very implausible scenario, then you can imagine anything. Giving as an answer ‘it couldn’t happen’ wouldn’t be accepted by the investigators.