Shakespeare smoked weed.......?

[lwien]

Scientists Detect Traces of Cannabis on Pipes Found in William Shakespeare’s Garden
-- http://time.com/3990305/william-shakespeare-cannabis-marijuana-high/

 

[syrupy]

http://gizmodo.com/its-stupid-to-use-literary-analysis-to-claim-shakespear-1723122679

 

[lwien]

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.

 

[syrupy]

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.

"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

 

[Gunky]

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.

 

[MinnBobber]

I'd be surprised if he DIDN'T smoke cannabis.

 

[Snappo]

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.

 

[Joel W.]

I have been to the house were he was born and to his tudor in Shottery and I did not see anything.

I may have left some stuff there tho.

 

[Nesta]

I have been to the house were he was born and to his tudor in Shottery and I did not see anything.

I may have left some stuff there tho.

A pipe?

 

[Joel W.]

hahaha no, I had pre rolled joints in a cig pack on that trip.

 

[StheDubya]

No doubt that guy was high. Anybody whos read Shakespeare knows that

 

[lwien]

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