/lit/ - Literature

>>21950795
>He created works of beauty rather than of understanding because the era in which he lived wasn't primed for the sort of changes that understanding brings about. He's the Newton of the humanities, whose vision was additive (rather than an Einstein whose vision departed from what came before).
This is more correct than you realize.

>>21710821
Kys

>>21640029
No

>>21556500
No

>>21516089
Good

>>21480983
>stfu esotericfag

>>21410287
No

Read Bacon

>>21398372
Mashallah, brother

No

>>21374941
No

>>21337376
No

*ahem*
Fuck Aristotle.

>>12299500
Inb4 Shakespeare.

>>12197985
He wrote The Plays.

>>12179330
You got it backwards, anon, Bacon was Shakespeare... ;-)

>>12173801
English is the dominant literary language as well as the dread and envy of all other (and hence, lesser) languages because we have the Planet's greatest writer, Shakespeare, heading the Planet's greatest canon.

>>12173011
>Shakespeare is a meme
Invented by Bacon...
;-)

Did Bacon do more harm or good for western society?

Found a new conspiracy video I thought /lit/ would find interesting to discuss. Probably has been here but this video has some interesting points in it. My own research was into Sir Francis Bacon writing the plays and this is one site I found that has a summary of that point

http://www.sirbacon.org/links/evidence.htm

What does /lit/ think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPJqfi9j_Q

Nietzsche on Shakespeare's works:

>"When I cast about me for my highest formula of Shakespeare, I find invariably but this one : that he conceived the type of Caesar. Such things a man cannot guess — he either is the thing, or he is not. The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. I feel instinctively certain and convinced that Lord Bacon is the originator, the self-torturer, of this most sinister kind of literature . . . But the power for the greatest realism in vision is not only compatible with the greatest realism in deeds, with the monstrous in deeds, with crime — it actually presupposes the latter. . . . We do not know half enough about Lord Bacon — the first realist in all the highest acceptation of this word — to be sure of everything he did, everything he willed, and everything he experienced in his inmost soul. . . . Let the critics go to hell! Suppose I had christened my Zarathustra with a name not my own, — let us say with Richard Wagner's name, — the acumen of two thousand years would not have sufficed to guess that the author of Human, all-too-Human was the visionary of Zarathustra."

What does /lit/ think of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship?