From: "joe green" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: the little dogs and all
> The same historical record that reveals that he did his best writing at
> Stratford and was no Deer Stealer. That historical record.
Ah, right, *that historical record.
Sorry, my sense of irony must have been in abeyance when I replied this
morning.
Apologies.
(The kicker, of course, is "did his best writing at Stratford", where I
suppose a case could be made if we consider "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape
of Lucrece" to be his best work. While there's absolutely no evidence that
he wrote them in Stratford rather than in London, it's not absolutely
implausible, given that they came out when the theatres were closed. Maybe
he had time on his hands and was bored with Anne's company. Still prefer
Lear to Lucrece, but.)
Robin
> Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: "joe green"
>
>> Tray almost certainly was a dachshund.
>>
>> http://home.pacbell.net/jcreitz/Andouille_Dachshund_Page3.html
>>
>> The Dachshund in Literature
>>
>> ... The historical record reveals that William Shakespeare himself, the
>> greatest writer of the English language, kept a pack of dachshunds at
>> Stratford-upon-Avon, where he did his best writing.
>
> Believe *that if you like. Which historical record? First I've heard of
> it.
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