Is it true Shakespeare was smoking pot while writing?

Question

i heard the most famous works of him were made out on the impact of it.

Answer 1

expand your mind through dulling out all the senses that distract your from functioning with great brilliance and let your talent flow like a rivers water blends in with that of an ocean, hear the waves crash as your ears have become so sensitive that your ears can feel the fish break the surface as they dance with the heaven of death in their eyes.
god i wish i had some now...

yeah i think he did smoke

Answer 2

It seems that while the Bard may have partaken, it is not clear exactly what, and it might be more than a bit of a stretch to conclude that he was high when writing Ceasar, MacBeth or Richard III. Even the analogies and comments he made may not be related directly to pot but any other "compound" which is typically a mixture of 2 or more substances so perhaps it was tea, perhaps it was some other cocktail of stuff.

Barring THC on a hair sample or something, we'd have no idea for sure.

http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespearesbiograph1/a/shkMarijuana.htm

Answer 3

Why not? He lived in the age of new found elixirs made in Americas by British, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian conquerors.
Coffee, tobacco, coca-coca!, pot (or maria), tchokolatl. You know, scientists and physicians are changing their mind and point of wiew fast. Now olive oil and blue fish prevents of heart attack, after years of being cardiologic anathema. Portugueses began to smoke tobacco, pioneers, because they had been told by experts that it was the best cure for asthma.
But for creative, inspirative/conspirative purposes, it's no new. Think that there's a thesis about Shakespeare being a collective. All that massive production of phantasy and versification in an Era where they didn't live as long as us is indicative. Artists always have found means to 'accelerate'. Poet Omar Khayyam, wine. E.A. Poe, brandy. Baudelaire__ Not to speak about Classics of Greece, Rome. In the Russia of tzars, coffee drinking (by mujik-slaves) had death penalty for it. All centuries, prehistorical also, have tried 'pharmakón' and so, have been their time's New Age. And don't forget that Shakespeare's days are the days of witchcraft ("Macbeth, thou shalt be King!") and sabbath. The use of any narchotic, from mandragora, opium to mushrooms (amanita muscaria) was quite cool. And Shakespeare knew about human behaviour because he was more witch-wise than anachoret.

Answer 4

Highly likely. Alot of good thinkers smoked pot, or "hemp" as it was referred to back then. Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, George Washington etc.

Answer 5

Why are you surprised
alot of famous people smoked cannabis
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
and other people
they used for the recreational purpose and to expand their minds

Answer 6

It's very likely, but I'd hate to think of my favorite poems as a result of a drinking frenzy. I also don't know why some of the best poets and playwriters had to be drug addicts. That just it's fair!
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Answer 7

Seriously doubt it, as pot affects the brain more than any other part of the body.

Answer 8

I seriously doubt it, because of availability. He may have tried smoking tobacco, as it was a new fashion in the late Elizabethan period.

Answer 9

No way ... Maybe you can get some ideas with it but, writing brilliant litterateurs...It's Impossible!

Answer 10

probabli ....
but apparantli, now they think he didnt even rite most of his work ... :S:S:S