Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous"

[Zeether]

Not what you'd think it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHA-7CMCppM

Some movie about who actually wrote plays for Shakespeare.

[daltysmilth]

Roland Emmerich making a movie that's not two hours of explosions and doesn't involve the world possibly ending?  Maybe that means the world IS coming to an end.

[Tripe]

Well I'll watch it but I suspect the big secret is the same one as found in St Trinian's 2 : The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

[Thrifty]

Well I'll watch it but I suspect the big secret is the same one as found in St Trinian's 2 : The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

That there was no monster?

[Tripe]

That "Shakespeare" had lady bits.

[Johnny Unusual]

That "Shakespeare" had lady bits.

Wait, he was the Twelfth Knight (sic)?

Hey, was Shakespeare ever knighted (I could probably look it up, but where's the conversation in that?)

[sardeans1138]

I hope it's as historically accurate as The Patriot.

[Tripe]

That "Shakespeare" had lady bits.

Wait, he was the Twelfth Knight (sic)?

Hey, was Shakespeare ever knighted (I could probably look it up, but where's the conversation in that?)

*Cracks knuckles*

Nah, knighting somebody for services to entertainment then would have been about comparable to knighting London's biggest pimp for services to hospitality. You tended to get  a knighthood for killing enemies of the realm and, er, that's it.

Shakespeare did fairly well for himself and was succesful enough to be interrred in Holy Trinity but that success was in the sphere of business not theatre.

This is one of the most famous images of Shakespeare and one of the oldest

And, just about here, you'll see a plaque commemorating one of my ancestors who also did well enough to get memorialized in the chancel despite being drunk enough to drown in the Avon

Wall|Archway|Wall|Corner|Bit More Wall

Thing is, it's had a few alterations over the years, most notably the tassels and the pen and parchment, originally Will was resting his arms on a much simpler sack. A sack of what you might ask. Well the nice history books would like you to believe it's some sort of produce or something. The general consensus around town is that, like his father, Shakes probably didn't make too shabby a profit selling leavings.

Leavings are quite useful, as Will's father probably argued when being pulled in front of the town council to be find for having too large a dung heap outside his house on multiple occasions. Oh yes he was a glover too, the tour of the birthplace makes damn sure to mention that, a little quieter on the dung heaps for some reason.

So Shakes did well for himself, but he's not in the church for anything he wrote, nor indeed did her own the largest house in Stratford or have the towns doctor as a son in law due to his career in London. In fact, if it wasn't for the fondness of Germans for his writing we might not even know about Shakespeare the writer at all, it'd not be a fate that's uncommon for playwrights of the period, the birthplace trust has a wall with tons of the buggers names on there and, while I know them all (and get ticked off that one of my relatives isn't listed), I doubt the casual gazer at it does. Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton maybe, possibly Kydd and Tourneur if they read a little more but that's about it.

[CrowTeeRobot]

I'm hoping he's actually Robocop.