An interesting article from CNN titled “Was Shakespeare’s Ghost Writer . . . Shakespeare?” on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, and James Shapiro’s new book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare:
To the anti-Stratfordians, Shakespeare — who left behind, by modern standards, relatively little in the way of personal records — was too unworldly, too unromantic (in his will, he famously left his widow his “second best bed”), too ordinary to have written some of the greatest plays and poems known to man. It’s a theory Shapiro roundly rejects. He says that modern audiences are reading Shakespeare through modern sensibilities, believing that the author’s work is autobiographical — which was not the case in Shakespeare’s day.
Yakko, Wakko and Dot perform Puck’s closing monologue from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in classic Animaniacs style.
Dot’s Translation:
You fell asleep on your butt and dreamed the whole thing. . .
And the Beatles are the Mechanics:
