Every time we watch a movie
A moving image so false it’s based on real
Every time we go into a cinematic trance
Strobe light dancing romance
photographs in time to music’s powerful rhyme
I could memorize the Bible
if it was accompanied by muses
All day long actors pretend so much they’re real
Convincing even themselves
Entrancing themselves
Like liars forget which line is real
Like when you hide something
So deep in the wishing well
You can’t remember where it is
Which spell lies?
Which reality is?
Where are we now?
Do you really know?
Or are you pretending like the rest of us
The Emperor has no clothes
Don’t kill the messenger
Don’t attack those who know
We’re the fools disguised in truth
hidden in plain view I suppose
If you have no clothes.
Seoul Sister 
Yes actors pretending so much they’re real, they even convince themselves.
Like that scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet where an actor in a stage troupe is playing in a play actually weeping over Troy’s ill-fated queen Hecuba and Hamlet asks the question, “What’s he to Hecuba and Hecuba to him?”.
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I think Shakespeare was an unmistakable genius, impressive that you’re familiar with his lesser known writing. Do you think he was the only author or many authors? I’d like to imagine it was just him.
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I believe it was only just him.
My dad when he was taking a course in English literature in his University years actually did as his project for that course whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
In his research, he noted that John Milton (the author of Paradise Lost) in writing essays on Shakespeare 10 years after Shakespeare’s death obviously in his writing believed that Shakespeare wrote all of the works attributed to him.
He also discovered that some lesser playwrights of the time (jealous of Shakespeare) wrote plays mocking Shakespeare and what they considered his pompous style.
So they obviously believed Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
Among the lesser known playwrights mocking Shakespeare’s style were two named Rosenkreutz and Guildenstern.
This confirmed for my dad that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare since the two non-descript courtiers in Hamlet who were killed very early on in the mission they were sent on bore those names.
My dad figured what better way to make fun of one’s critics than to have them appear on-stage in one’s play as a couple of fools who are killed early on in the mission they’re sent on.
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Thanks for sharing this awesome information that your father researched. I agree with him, I think the rumor arose out of jealousy too. People couldn’t believe that one person could write so prolifically and so well. I love that Shakespeare ridiculed the two critics in such a hilarious way! Brilliant! 😊
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