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In that light, all this new computer software has "proven" is that Shakespeare may deserve partial credit for collaborating on a play that was not already widely attributed to him, while proving nothing one way or the other about the authorship of the plays historically believed to be solely by Shakespeare. ]]>Oct 13th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/
G.I.G.O.

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But he was in a company, so the idea that he had collaborators is not news either...and isn't in dispute.]]>Oct 13th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/Oct 14th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/
Plagiarism is a recent concept anyhow. Back then there were NO copyright laws, and no-one would think to impose any.

Re. the gore in Titus, well, it sells! Shakespeare had to live. and the customer/consumer/playgoer is always right.]]>Oct 14th 2009 1:31AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/Oct 14th 2009 2:05AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/Oct 14th 2009 2:26AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/Oct 14th 2009 3:29AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/They should of burried his writings with him. What is so great about this guy?
]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/There are not "several" rapes in T.A., just one. There is one mention of cannibalism, although two sons were eaten (by an completely unaware mother). I do not recall any live burials at all, and I am have read T.A. extensively. Also, no one commits suicide in the play. There were not "buckets of blood", because, as I stated earlier, violence was never shown onstage.
The Neanderthal that wrote this apparently watched the Julie Taymor film version and decided that it was exactly like the play. ]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/shakespeare-had-collaborators-says-computer-program/
You may have read Shakespeare tons, but I've seen Shakespeare plenty. At the Globe in London three years ago, Titus was regularly interrupted by people fainting (not because of the heat...it was fine), but because of the ABSURD amounts of blood (http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Theatre-Review/titus-andronicus-comes-with-warning). Specifically in the scene where Lavinia reveals that her tongue has been slashed, and she opens her mouth and blood dribbles out (these are the stage directions).

Also, there is plenty of impaling in Shakespeare, but TA goes one step further and has throats slit on stage (Titus slays both Lavinia -- his daughter-- and Tamora on stage before Saturnius than kills him). At least in Hamlet, its poison, and then a stabbing behind a curtain, Lear features dead bodies being dragged ON stage, and Othello has suicide and strangling, but not throat slitting. It's very, very dark, and was forgotten and oft-neglected until recently. Many still believe its not fully his work. (Even Wiki says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus#Reputation)

And buried alive? In the crucial end scene, Lucius says about Aaron: "Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;
There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food." Ok, it doesn't say "bury him alive!" but its pretty freaking clear that's what we are getting at here.
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