We know hardly anything about his personal history.

He practically invented Elizabethan English.

The King James bible is written in Elizabethan English, while the Book of Mormon clearly sounds like someone tried to write it that way as well. Just a theory we should share with our TBM friends.

I should clarify, I secretly take joy out of seeing what crazy stuff I can get a TBM to believe. So far nothing has been crazier then Mormonism, but only for lack of imagination on my part.

No. The witches in Macbeth, however, were.

I testify that William Shakespeare used the Urim and Thumimm to translate 36 plays from the original Klingon.

In the name of Titus Andronicus, Amen.

LOL at this entire post!

If you want gullible mormons who believe crazy things, come visit my inlaws.

I submit the following as evidence, but also as material for you to test other TBMs gullibility.

My in-laws literally had a family home evening focused "Mother Shipton" a witch from England who prophesied a bunch of things (or at least who was attributed for these "prophecies")

So read the poem/prophecy here:
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/helene.htm

and then let them have at it.
My inlaws drew so many far fetched connections to mormonism it was frightening to see their minds at work.

The only exampl I remember was them trying to claim this as the gold plates:
"gold found at the root of tree All England's sons that plough the land Shall oft be seen with Book in hand."

he was really Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. And there is a real possibility he did have a hand in producing the KJV.

It's-a-strange-world-we-live-in-ly yrs,

S

Yes, yes he was.

And the proof is in the 46th Psalm.

Shakespeare was born on April 23rd. The most famous Psalm is the 23rd psalm ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . . .). 23 + 23 = 46.

Now you can ignore the word "selah" because that is not really part of the psalm--it's a musical direction for when they are sung.

If you take the 46th word of the 46th Psalm it's "shake."

If you take the 46th word from the end (ignoring "selah") it is "spear."

PROOF that Shakespeare was one of the three Nephites!

cheers,

Baura


P.S. so you don't have to run to your Bible here is the 46th Psalm:

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

My DW wants me to buy her a tee shirt - picture of Shakespeare and text that says "This shit writes itself."

Absolutely not. But Thomas Kyd was.