Is it even possible for a monoglot to be a great writer?
Is it even possible for a monoglot to be a great writer?
Julian Miller
John Lopez
Shakespeare only knew English fluently
Jack Fisher
and obviously homer (if we take a broader meaning of 'writer') only knew greek
Anthony Edwards
Probably a few bongoid ones
Bentley Miller
The idea that Shakespeare wouldn't have known Latin is preposterous
Joshua Cox
ben jonson said he knew small latin and less greek
Daniel Roberts
He was Edward de Vere, who was a polyglot. Yes, he knew Latin.
Cooper Peterson
There was not such thing as "Greek" or "Greeks" before Homer. The big thing about him is that he unified the, although really similar, different "Greek" cultures and dialects. There's a clear parallel between the Greeks unifying for war and Homer unifying dialects in his own brand of Greek language.
Mason Adams
Isaac Gutierrez
He had to have at least known Latin also, and probably French to a degree.
Leo Ortiz
I have looked into it slightly deeper than a scene from a Mark Wahlberg movie, thanks though.
Connor Davis
I would say that he knew Spanish, given that he took inspiration in Quixote to write one of his plays, but he probably read a translation.
Aaron Price
Actually I don't even get it. Why is calling him The Earle of Oxford or much less, Marlowe supposed to diminish his reputation? If he were Marlowe then he'd just be an even more prolific and greater writer, no?
Sebastian Ward
He wasn’t Marlowe, he was de Vere. And nobody is calling him that to diminish his reputation? It just gives more accurate insight to the genius behind the work, what sort of life experience he was drawing from. It doesn’t change anything about his work.
Brayden Brooks
right thank you, i know. the point was he was a monoglot.
and obviously as the story shows the greeks weren't all that effective at unification and were generally proud about their lack of it
Josiah James
where are you getting that from?
see and he read the florio translation of montaigne so probably NOT french
Landon Fisher
Yeah, exactly. Greece, as a whole identity/idea, exist solely through Homer, in all other aspects they were apart.
Aaron Baker
would you come off it. he wasn't de vere
Leo Sullivan
He definitely isn’t Marlowe, it’s complete insanity on the level of “Tupac is alive in the Bahamas” to suggest that. But he was probably de Vere—there are numerous distinctive parallels between de Vere’s life and the plays, for instance getting caught by pirates (Hamlet), and he was even punned at in court by someone in the know remarking “Thy countenance shakes spears”. There’s a whole plethora of such things that make a compelling case.
Justin Hernandez
Alls I'm saying guys is what kind of Jealous action imputes more esteem upon the person being jellified?
Chase Parker
There is a lot of debate around this topic. Probably, it will never be resolved. But it's a cool read.
Also, Roger Chartier's History of reading in the West is a great book.