http://politicworm.com Shakespeare authorship Fri, 25 May 2012 15:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://politicworm.com/questions-and-responses/why-the-vast-conspiracy-of-silence/#comment-10154 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:44:03 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=270#comment-10154 The conspiracy theory actually works better when we think of other contenders such as Marlowe who was “supposed” to be dead, or that Mary Sidney, Lady Pembroke (Imagine great women writers/editors) or John Florio(imagine an Italian as an author/editor or idea man, of the greatest English plays, how scandalous even the thought!), or Emilia Lanyier(why so many Emilias recur in Sh’s plays). I do not like close-mindedness of this Oxford Club! Even Oxford would have shuddered…(Hamlet also would have shuddered)
In my university(Toronto) days and when the controversy was young, a great professor highlighted the FACT that “authorship” was different in Sh’s time.Those who put the Folio edition together knew and why they did not assign the “official” author (or authors)to them is a great mystery or a Great Conspiracy. Shame, fear, embarrassment, political intrigue at various levels, scandal–all must have played a part, and we, five centuries later think we know who wrote what, when, (etcetera, etcetera)….Let us humbly admit that we truly do not know….Presumptuousness and pretentiousness makes us intellectually the poorer for our effort… Someone may know and maybe has some of the originals(some researchers/scholars propose that up to three copies of each play were needed to properly stage a play in Shakespeare’s day(!)
These are just idle thoughts of someone curious not someone who knows, someone who wishes to know and refrains (with doubt) about the certainties of the Greatest Poet and Dramatist in English Cultural History!

]]> http://politicworm.com/questions-and-responses/why-the-vast-conspiracy-of-silence/#comment-2049 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:00:50 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=270#comment-2049 Impressive article post on the blog, I share the same views. I wonder why this particular country totally does not think like me and additionally the web publication master

]]> http://politicworm.com/questions-and-responses/why-the-vast-conspiracy-of-silence/#comment-532 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:45:39 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=270#comment-532 Great job answering a typical Stratfordian question. You may yourself disagree with the analysis contained in my own 2004 Tennessee Law Review article on Venus and Adonis, but it does supply an answer to Dr. Egan’squestion. A pdf of the article is available here: http://shake-speares-bible.com/pdf/Venus%20and%20Adonis.pdf

]]> http://politicworm.com/questions-and-responses/why-the-vast-conspiracy-of-silence/#comment-45 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:56:29 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=270#comment-45 Am enjoying this as thoroughly as I did your course – and am delighted to know that now my three adult children have received this first installation. Can’t wait to hear from them, with their reactions. They must be as thrilled as I am to receive what amounts to a wonderful gift from you – Lynn

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