The blessing and curse at Shakespeare's grave

[@Scorp316]

People want to exhume him anyway. Can’t we just let him rest? If not for the curse then out of respect for the man. He gave us ageless work. The least we can do is honor his last wish.

[@purefoldnz3070]

Look at that awful poem on his tombstone. There's no way this man wrote the great plays.

[@Scorp316]

@@purefoldnz3070 Shakespeare allegedly feared the thought of being exhumed or disturbed after he died. So he wrote the curse to ward off those who might try to dig him up.

[@fidulario]

There’s a theory according to which he was buried with several unpublished manuscripts.

[@wanderingwu6320]

There is nothing in that grave. I has been opened in the distant past, I believe, and an ultrasound was conducted on the area. Nothing. Besides, it's something like 3' x 3'. Not enough space to place a body -- unless he was cremated. But don't tell anyone in Stratford. The entire economy will collapse overnight.

[@PincoPallino-zh8wm]

He's dead, I am sure his resting days are long gone

[@townsendm794]

My ancestor was Shakespeare's godfather. I have visited this church several times. It's a beautiful and peaceful place.

[@coachwane]

That pretty dope

[@veerendrapatidar2929]

That be the best flex

[@HarshitGautam-ec3yd]

Yeah😂😂​@@veerendrapatidar2929

[@gbennett58]

No one notices that the inscription is of very low quality when compared to Shakespeare's supposed plays, poems, etc?

[@fidulario]

Yeah, trochaic octosyllables with a rigorous doubly symmetrical scheme is not my idea of low quality. Besides, nobody said they were written in his mature period. Perhaps a manuscript from his youth, when he was attestedly experimenting with all sorts of meters and forms.

[@gbennett58]

@@fidulario However you dress it up, it reads like something Long John Silver would have inscribed on his tombstone, not a great poet.

[@majdevetdu2513]

For any one not knowing, graves been opened, empty only compounded dvst. Compartment was to small for a body. This was proply used as an attraktion by the town. Shakespeare The pen that shakes at hummanitys ignorance still shakes.

[@zomalfa4363]

I heard the grave was actually empty from a 2016 scan.

[@samuelbetunias]

Cause his bones decompose

[@fidulario]

No. The scan revealed the skull was missing.

[@zomalfa4363]

So confusing, there's so much contradicting information on Shakespeare even things going on today with him. An expert on Ted talks was the one who said there was nothing there.

[@MarcosLopez-yz2wr]

WOW, didn't know this

[@buttonfanny5879]

Just linked a video claiming images from this as their own.

[@colinallan1962]

He's absolutely right about the curse being to protect him from the charnel house. Such admonitions were quite common. It's not because he was famous and thought people would dig up his bones. I hadn't heard tell that the wall memorial was put up by his wife. Evidence for that would be overwhelming evidence for the Stratfordians. I would love to know the source for that. If you look at early engravings of the memorial you can see it shows a very different picture. A very different man with his hands on a woolsack not a pen. Shakespeare dealt in wool as did his father. My view is that it was of his Father and later changed ( there is record of it's reconstruction in the church records in 1746 ).

[@ansarymh5552]

Which country?

[@ansarymh5552]

@Vandana Gupta thank you

[@zarz3049]

england

[@ShashiBhushankumar-g2m]

England

[@auny33]

False information regarding the bust.

[@rhenum8084]

what bust?

[@kaaz9777]

@@rhenum8084 A bust is a statue of someones body from the torso up, normally without arms.

[@favouredlisa8218]

Isn't that is funeral bust, Which was cast on his actual body?

[@nightmisterio]

I know the real reason why.

[@salenebrom6476]

nightmisterio ?

[@cuteygooki]

Man left us hanging

[@imtiazalikhan4553]

Who wrote these word?

[@ShashiBhushankumar-g2m]

Shakespeare himself wrote it.

[@rupertcadell2685]

That's why i don't want to be buried in a cemetery, after a while they'll dig you up and resell the plot. Notice how everyone dies and cemeteries never seem to get any bigger?

[@human_appeal_org7028]

Ill tell u when u open his grave u will see something scary so its a curse if u one his grave

[@maximmihailovic6807]

You pronounced it wrongg!!!

[@TheRealOvaIzzy]

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