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		<title>The Murder of Shakespeare&#8217;s Identity: Act IV</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/05/23/the-murder-of-shakespeares-identity-act-iv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academics are wrong in thinking that Shakespeare’s career went from comedies at first to tragedies toward the end (with, they imagine, an utterly absurd return at the very end to the pastorals of the 1560s), for his pattern from the &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/05/23/the-murder-of-shakespeares-identity-act-iv/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5247&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The murder of Shakespeare&#8217;s identity: Acts I through III</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/05/10/the-hiding-of-shakespeares-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons why it’s been so hard to convince the world that the Stratford story is a sham is that no one’s ever come up with a single strong reason why the true author&#8217;s identity had to be &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/05/10/the-hiding-of-shakespeares-identity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5225&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theatrical birth pangs: 1776 to 1584</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/04/30/theatrical-birth-pangs-1776-to-1584/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blackfriars theater]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in April 1576, following a year of exciting adventures on the Continent, the Earl of Oxford arrived back in England to a sea of troubles.  During his final days in Paris, someone from home had prepared him for the &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/04/30/theatrical-birth-pangs-1776-to-1584/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5215&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;King of Shadows&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/04/04/king-of-shadows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the anthropologist who spends thousands of hours sifting through tons of rubble beneath a cliff-side, seeking bits of bone no bigger than the end of a thumb that she hopes will fit the skeleton she’s piecing together of a &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/04/04/king-of-shadows-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5170&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford&#8217;s three audiences</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/03/19/oxfords-three-audiences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Modern readers of Shakespeare come to the plays through the First Folio, the versions of the 36 plays published in 1623 by the patrons of his company, known by then as the King’s Men.  Publication then, and ever since, has performed &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/03/19/oxfords-three-audiences/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5140&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Scenario that works!</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/02/18/the-scenario-that-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers new to the Authorship Question will quickly see that the Shakespeare story as I tell it is considerably different from the one told in school and from the one told (or, more precisely, clumsily and obscenely aimed at) by &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/02/18/the-scenario-that-works/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5112&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the fun factor</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2012/01/27/missing-the-fun-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Punning is a harmless addiction, however annoying.  Puns are fun if the conversation is light-hearted, but infuriating if it’s serious, where they come off as a kind of verbal sabotage.  Habitual punners seem unable ever to let a serious conversation &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2012/01/27/missing-the-fun-factor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=5089&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;The Shakespeare Guide to Italy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/12/24/review-the-shakespeare-guide-to-italy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard&#8217;s Unknown Travels, by Richard Paul Roe. Friends, those of you who love Shakespeare and who also know, or would like to know, Italy, do not miss this opportunity for one &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/12/24/review-the-shakespeare-guide-to-italy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=4931&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The authorship scenario in a nutshell</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/11/27/the-authorship-scenario-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who may be new to the authorship question or who haven&#8217;t been able to piece together a full scenario from the hodge podge of my necessarily brief posts and pages, here’s a quick overview (well, as quick as &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/11/27/the-authorship-scenario-in-a-nutshell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=4571&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s afraid of the Big Bad Boar?</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/11/12/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-oxford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major problems in getting the world to take Oxford seriously as Shakespeare is his bad reputation with historians.  Sure it came from his enemies, Henry Howard and Robert Cecil, who, no matter how notorious they were themselves, &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/11/12/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-oxford/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&#038;blog=5173207&#038;post=4610&#038;subd=politicworm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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