Do we live in a world where everything is fake and you can be replaced at any moment?

Are you aware that Shakespeare wrote fiction that may, or may not have been loosely based on history? That particular verse that you quote was from a portion of a stanza from one of the bard's better know fictional plays, Act 5, Scene 5 from Macbeth, I believe. Has no more to do with reality than one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. 

I am also aware that there is a school of thought that believes Shakespeare was more than one person. 


i kind of liked the POC movies but they are not like Shakespeare.  Apples and Oranges.

Now you just know I have to find something to disagree with you over.. it's our karma :P  So.. thing about Shakey is that there are a million and one theories about what he wrote and why, even, as Shar says whether he even wrote some of them.  Thing is.. we just don't know.. we cannot ask him.. LOL and what would you,  a Trump supporter know about reality :P

So, you're saying that Macbeth is incorrectly attributed to the bard? 

Yes, I'm aware that the Brits can't keep even their literary history straight and have lost all account of Shakespeare's "linage". Then they try to blame that "loss" on some mysterious fire in the summer of 1613. (The bard was really Prussian, the works translated plagiarism.)

LOL there you go with your supposition and wild imagination again.. this is my problem with you.. you take 2 and 2 and make 15! You drawn some truly strange conclusions - look again at what I said.. I never said Macbeth was not written by Shakey.. I never said it was either.. you decided I said that.. in the absence of corroboration of that assumption. 

LOL to the slur on the keeping track.. well let's face it.. can YOUR country trace their famous people back that far? No, of course not cos you don't have that kind of history in the first place.. all very well to sit and roll out criticisms when you can't compare like for like..  I very much doubt your records in your little hick towns were any better even centuries later :P   And you know what.. much as you Americans having no history or talent of your own adore shakespeare... at the time he wrote or didn't he wasn't really that big a deal. 

He thinks acting like this in a manner that EVERYONE can see through but him, makes him intelligent.

Now he won't like what I just said? SO WATCH him attack me now.

He cannot help himself.  Remind you of anyone?

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 16, 2017 1:32 PM MDT

https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/was-shakespeare-popular-his-own-time-he-now

An interesting para... 'According to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts, early readers didn't prefer Shakespeare over other popular writers of the time, such as Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson. It wasn't until the late 17th century, roughly 80 years after Hamlet was first performed and published, that readers copied out the ‘To be or not to be’ speech.'  https://englishhistory.net/shakespeare/facts/

Re lineage.. can YOU trace anything back that far? Have you ever seen records that date from that time? even records that date from the 1800s can be pretty confusing!  https://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-timeline-family.htm

https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/blog/shakespeares-ancestry/

https://www.literarygenius.info/ancestors-william-shakespeare.htm

Try doing a search on American records from that time :P  See how well you do :P    PS a little personal story.. We had to study Macbeth for our Olevel/GCSE exams... I got an A* - they still make kids study Shakespeare today for their exams.. my daughter did Much Ado about Nothing.