Shakespeare smoked weed.......?

syrupy

syrupy

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lwien said:
A quote from that link above:

"The author is dead: let’s leave his bones to lie in peace, ganja or no."

I say, fuck his bones. I wanna know if he was stoned when he wrote Midsummer Night's Dream. :brow:
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"The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.”


“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

“My soul is in the sky.”

--A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
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Gunky

Gunky

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There is probably no way to prove that the pipes found belonged to Shakespeare himself. However it seems to me a plausible case has now been made that contemporaries were smoking cannabis in Shakespeare's immediate locale and therefore an actor/playwright/poet type such as Shakespeare would likely have gotten into it.
 
Snappo

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I think what makes the case even more plausible is that Shakespeare contemplated herbs and other various garden growths (then regarded as healing and medicinal) when waxing poetic (e.g., A Midsummer Night's Dream). Cannabis may well have been a gateway to other heady herbs, or vice versa.
 
lwien

lwien

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:lol: I've never heard of Shakespeare referred to as "that guy" but it sure as hell has a nice ring to it. :tup:
 
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