dukeofbookingham:

an-android-in-a-tutu:

halleregina:

William Shakespeare was a bisexual kid from a town a hundred miles outside London with the equivalent of a high school education who knocked up a 26-year-old out of wedlock when he was 18 and he wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets that changed the English language and the nature of Western drama and theater and if that isn’t an argument against elitism and a culture of constant perfectionism I don’t know what is

probably why people spend so much time trying to prove he didnt write his own plays

Because I can’t help being pedantically insufferable the bit about Shakespeare’s education is somewhat misleading, because the early modern equivalent of “high school” meant learning Greek and Latin and all kinds of things that aren’t par for the course in a 21st-century high school curriculum, but basically yes: Shakespeare was a middle-class human disaster who became the most significant playwright and possibly most influential writer in the western world. Dream big.