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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&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=5089&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<category><![CDATA[Merchant of Venice]]></category>
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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&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4931&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4571&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4610&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/10/28/review-of-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice sets. Filed under: anonymity, Authorship Question, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare Authorship Tagged: Anonymous, authorship question<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4519&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The real authorship conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/10/23/the-real-authorship-conspiracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anonymity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, there was a conspiracy connected with the authorship of the Shakespeare canon, but its major impetus came from a very different source than the author himself or his patrons. As I keep repeating, one of the important factors to &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/10/23/the-real-authorship-conspiracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4496&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging or slogging?</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/09/20/blogging-or-slogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I’ve been slow with blogging lately, it’s because I’ve been slowly slogging through the histories of the period seeking patterns in events and dates to complete the puzzle of when and why the authorship question first arose.  Now that &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/09/20/blogging-or-slogging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4343&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London riots: 1592 to 2011</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/08/13/london-riots-1592-to-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we’re horrified by the violence that broke out this past week in London, we can take whatever comfort history offers in realizing that London riots are nothing new.  In fact, just such a riot took place in South London, &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/08/13/london-riots-1592-to-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4277&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was John Shakspere a dissident nonconformist?</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/07/21/was-john-shakspere-a-dissident-nonconformist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a book titled Shakespeare, Puritan and Recusant, published in 1897, author Thomas Carter makes a convincing argument that the apparent troubles brought on the Shakspere family beginning around 1576 were due neither to Catholicism nor debt, but to John &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/07/21/was-john-shakspere-a-dissident-nonconformist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4237&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oxford and Marlowe</title>
		<link>http://politicworm.com/2011/06/26/oxford-and-marlowe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopkinshughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was Marlowe Shakespeare? Despite the problem of Marlowe’s well-documented assassination by government agents in 1593, Marlovians cling to this idea largely because of crossovers (direct quotes and similar phrasing) between his works and those of Shakespeare.  It’s easier for them &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/06/26/oxford-and-marlowe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicworm.com&amp;blog=5173207&amp;post=4184&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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