Come on Rob,
Everyone knows Leonardo Da Vinci wrote Shakespeare.
:-) ;-} :-)
Roger.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Who wrote Shakespeare?
> > Pedant! Ok you got me. I'll go sit in the corner again.
> > *sigh*
> >
> > Robin said
> >
> > "Yes and no ... Yes Marlowe was a spy (more specifically
> > for Walsingham
> > rather than the crown) but no, he didn't fake his death."
>
> Well, there you are -- teach you to keep your place <g>.
>
> > Well I wasn't there Rob, so I don't know. The interview was
> > fascinating - it sounded like the plot for a good movie and
> > although I haven't seen the film yet, I will be looking out
> > for it.
>
> Well, to be honest, I was talking at second-hand -- it's been hashed about
a
> bit on the Shakespeare list. And there is a problem that mostly no one
> takes this stuff seriously to start with -- it's the academic equivalent
of
> conspiracy theory territory.
>
> > I was hoping it was going to be a lavish
> > dramatisation of the theory, something like 'Shakespeare in
> > Love", all in period costume.
>
> Well, that has Marlowe killed in mistake for Shakespeare. But at least he
> really dies. (I suppose.)
>
> > I'm a bit dissappointed to see
> > its 'just' a documentary. The list of interviewees is
> > impressive, anyway. Lets compare notes after we've both seen
> > the film. He was very convincing.
>
> K -- 'spose I'd better go see it now <sigh>. Then pontificate again.
>
> Da Pedant.
>
> [Oh, well, so long as I'm being pedantic ...
>
> Check out Dave Kathman's
>
> The Shakespeare Authorship Page
> Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare
>
> http://shakespeareauthorship.com/
>
> Myself, I wouldn't go to so much effort to shoot a fish in a barrel, but I
> suppose it had to be done.
>
> On the other side, there's alt.lit.humanities.authors.shakespeare, where
at
> least half the group members Sincerely Believe that Shakespeare didn't
write
> Shakespeare. Most of them go for the Earl of Oxford (amazing that no one
> has suggested that Shakespeare's plays were written by an itinerant ballad
> seller, always has to be someone more classy than a middle-class Stratford
> boyo) but some opt for Marlowe.
>
> See how broad-minded I am? -- even tell you where to go to prove me wrong.
>
> Oh, lor', Josie, you've started me off again. And I'd promised myself I
> wasn't going to be pedantic again before next Monday ...
>
> R2.]
>
|