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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Sha

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问题     It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.【F1】Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. Shakespeare himself went to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin—Ovid, Virgil and Horace and the elements of grammar and logic.【F2】He was, it is well known, a wild boy who hunted rabbits illegally, perhaps shot a deer, and had, rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the neighborhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That episode sent him to seek his fortune in London.【F3】He began by holding horses at the stage door, but very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practicing his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen.
    Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative as he was. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings and not moon about with books and papers.【F4】They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father’s eye. Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be married to the son of a neighboring wool dealer. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father.
    【F5】The force of her own gift alone drove her to disobey his father; she made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act. The manager a fat, loose-lipped man -laughed loudly. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last—for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare in her face an actor took pity on her. She found herself with child by that man and so - who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart in a woman’s body—killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads.
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答案他们可能语气严厉，却也亲切慈爱，因为他们是殷实人家，清楚女人该怎么过日子，而且也疼爱女儿，很可能她还是父母的掌上明珠。
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