Quite. I'm also reminded of all the Anti-Stratdordians whose main argument in the Shakespeare authorship debate seems to be "but he was just a guy from Stratford who didn't have much drama in his life other than his son dying, HOW COULD HE HAVE WRITTEN these plays?
(In the very last Sandman story in The Wake, Neil Gaiman has a marvellous spoof/reply to that when he lets Ben Jonson (the playwright) visit retired Shakespeare and go on about how he, Jonson, has at least experienced stuff and has had a dramatic life, while Will... and Shakespeare just smiles and says, paraphrasing because I don't have The Wake with me, "and here I thought that all you need to write about human beings is to be on, and I have that honor".)
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Date: 2022-10-18 04:26 pm (UTC)(In the very last Sandman story in The Wake, Neil Gaiman has a marvellous spoof/reply to that when he lets Ben Jonson (the playwright) visit retired Shakespeare and go on about how he, Jonson, has at least experienced stuff and has had a dramatic life, while Will... and Shakespeare just smiles and says, paraphrasing because I don't have The Wake with me, "and here I thought that all you need to write about human beings is to be on, and I have that honor".)