1.a statement that appears to contradict itself 2.a traveling group of actors, singers, or dancers 3.someone who does not believe that shakespeare wrote shakespeare's plays 4.a recurring theme, structure, contrast, or literary device in literature 5.happening after the death of the person 6.someone who believes shakespeare wrote shakespeare's plays 7.impossible to reach 8.a standard of behavior; a social expectation 9.the english upper class ranking just below nobility unattainable normative motif paradox anti-stratfordian posthumous gentry stratfordian troupe