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Shakespeare’s Henry Eighth, All is True.

Since I joined SW I feel as if I’ve watched this play at the Globe.


So let’s look at some similarities.

Firstly there are two authors. Fletcher and Shakespeare in the play.

On SW that happens, sometimes the husband reads what the wife writes, and edits or replies to your messages.

Or more often there are two profiles by the same author, written in the same style. Maybe you can spot facial similarities.

Furthermore, they interlink well, but they distort, edit, or exaggerate events, even inventing them. Shakespeare and Fletcher do that. But so do multiple profilers.

Photographs can be of anyone.

Remember ‘All is true’.
Henry IV was a "history," but in the play, Prince Hal and Hotspur are the same age, when in real life Hal would have been a kid when Hotspur was in his 40s. So Shakespeare had no problem changing the facts for dramatic purposes. I mean, he put Falstaff in there, who wasn't even a real person. The Falstaff character was based on an Ancient Roman comedic character, Miles Gloriosus, a braggart soldier whose exploits never rose to the level of his stories about them.
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@LeopoldBloom Adds to the point I’m making
ArtieKat · M
Years ago, when I was in my early 20s with aspirations of becoming a writer,
an older friend who acted as my mentor introduced me to the term "verisimilitude". An event one writes about doesn't have to be true - but has to read as if it [i][b]could[/b][/i] be real.
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And then there are the Players, who play on hearts of lonely old men.

But not all!
iamonfire696 · 41-45, F
This is all so true. It’s easy to make things up with information is right at your fingertips.
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@iamonfire696 As we found someone who takes a photo of someone advertising lingerie and claims it is herself!
iamonfire696 · 41-45, F
@SW-User Yes we did

 
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