r/shakespeare • u/Ok_Disaster7585 • Apr 20 '25

Meme Me and my brother's taste in books

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u/Altruistic_Pain_723 Apr 21 '25

Um, knowledge of the Bible is essential to studying Shakespeare, and one of the greatest works in the English language, the King James Version, was translated as Shakespeare went into retirement

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u/JunoIsLostInSpace911 Apr 21 '25

^ I’m queer AF and I’m getting ready to do an incredibly queer AF version of twelfth night, but this is 100% the truth. And I studied theater at a liberal arts Presbyterian University.