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This just in: Shakespeare a hungover hack

Poor Will. First, allegations that not all of his work can be attributed to his quill, and now this. The latest hypothesis explaining the bard’s inconsistencies is that he was often writing with head-splitting hangovers.

As The Guardian reports, Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director at London’s reconstructed Globe theatre, has said there are “Monday morning” lines in those Shakespearean classics.

The Guardian story points to Macbeth as the play most glaringly written by a man in need of a little hair of the dog that bit him. Most offending, it argues, is Macduff’s Caesarean birth: “There is … a feebleness in the plotting, which does incline one to the suspicion that the playwright was drinking too deeply of mine host’s four-star in the Tabard the night before.”

Hey, we’ve all had hangovers. Shakespeare, however, is the only one who wrote Macbeth.

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