A Brief History of Shakespeare There was a real person named Shakespeare. We do not know what his other names were, but we know there was a person by the name of Shakespeare. It seems very likely that there were three names that Shakespeare used. There was another person who did a lot of writing that was very similar to Shakespeare and Shakespeare took him under his wing and they worked on some things together. If I recall, his name was Marlo. There was also another author who soon became confused in the public’s mind as to who was who. Then there was a metaphysician by the name of Bacon who showed up on the scene shortly after Shakespeare left the scene, although there was no indication that Shakespeare died. If you see a painting or an etching of Shakespeare and of Bacon, you can see that they are the same person. Their beards are different, their dress is different, their hair is a little different, but it seems to be the same person. Shakespeare was an incredibly practical psychologist; that was his great strength. He knew how to get a point across in the same means that Jesus was so good at using parables and allegory. Therefore, he was a very powerful shaper of the attitudes and ideas of the English people. We inherited much of that because we speak the language that makes it easy for us to read those books. So he had an influence. It was likely that he was a member of the Brotherhoods toward the end of his life, but not as Shakespeare. That was his nom de plume, as it were. It seems very likely that Shakespeare was born in the court of Elizabeth, to one of the courtesans there. Maybe that is a bad term to use because it has two different meanings. One is the ladies-in-waiting there who became married and had him as a child and he was reared in the court. He seemed to have an incredible insight into the things that were happening in the court and of English history, which just was not taught anywhere. The court historians, the scribes, and so forth apparently were people who he had access to, who took an interest in educating him, and told him all about the interesting things that go on between the heads-of-state of the different nations, and so forth. He was definitely a scholar; well-educated. He certainly indicates that he was aware of classical Greek and Roman literature. He understood the Bible very well. He was well-educated for those days. (12-1982)
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