Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
SHAKESPEARE, SOCRATES, JESUS
The conclusion that a black woman, Amelia Bassano, of Morocco and Italy and England, was the actual bard "William Shakespeare," in lieu of Christopher Marlowe, or any number of others, is easily eclipsed by similar apostrophes, pertaining to Socrates, being a literary invention of Plato, and Jesus Christ, being utterly devoid of historical existence, but a created figure as well.
Of course, it matters not to many if any of this is true. Some have read the works of "William Shakespeare", delightfully, none the wiser; have read the works of Plato about the death of Socrates, none the wiser; have read the New Testament of Jesus, in bliss.