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		<title>Anonymity through the ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This “elaborate charade” It looks like certain elements of the academy may be beginning to pay attention to the authorship question.  John Mullan’s Anonymity: A Secret History of Literature is one hopeful sign (Faber and Faber, 2007).  If he doesn&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2011/04/29/anonymity-through-the-ages/">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=4118&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That darn name!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 12:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who was Shakespeare? If we anti-Stratfordians are ever successful at raising the issue, the question will someday be opened where it belongs, in the Halls of Academe; academe, a word that the true author took from Greek, knowledge of which &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2010/05/10/shakespeare-darn-that-name/">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=2976&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Authorship: the Big Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to think about Shakespeare?  Is he who he said he was, who Ben Jonson and the academics say he was, or was he someone else?  Have we been diddled by Jonson all these centuries, and if so, &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2010/03/06/the-authorship-the-big-picture/">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=2677&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, can the Devil speak true?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt are aware by now, my scenario for the authorship of the Shakespeare canon is not the standard view.  The standard view is the one most people have grown up with, the one that sees William of &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/12/23/what-can-the-devil-speak-true/">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=2349&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight for the Court Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court Stage fell under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain of the Household.  A sort of super-butler in charge of everything “above stairs,” he was important enough to be guaranteed a seat on the Privy Council.  Elizabeth’s  first Lord &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/08/23/the-fight-for-the-stage/">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=1445&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wrote What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ockham’s razor is a slang term for the simplification that takes place when the truth is finally located at the center of a mélange of clues and complicated hypotheses.  We can be fairly certain we have the truth when whole &#8230; <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/08/12/who-wrote-what/">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=1410&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Shakespeare did</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did Shakespeare do to become so famous?  Everyone knows that he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and (at least) 35 other plays.  For many, his 400-year-old language is hard to read.  Some even find it difficult to understand him in the theater.  Yet every year scores of books roll off the presses about him or his works.  What has made him so famous for so long?  What besides write a few old plays? <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/04/24/what-shakespeare-did/">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=368&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In search of Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should it matter to us who wrote the works of Shakespeare?  
The important thing is that we have them.
This is like saying, what does it matter what makes the sky blue, plants grow, rain fall, humans live a certain length of time and then pass on; all we need to know is that it happens, we don’t need to know why.  If this is a satisfactory response to you, Reader, pass on.  <a href="http://politicworm.com/2009/04/23/in-search-of-shakespeare/">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=354&amp;subd=politicworm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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