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It does make sense that Greville wrote some of Shakespeare's works.  Since Shakespeare was so busy translating the King James Bible, he would hardly have had the time for sonnets.  But then, who wrote Greville's poems?  Perhaps Marlowe.  There's the dating problem, but I'm sure there's a way around it.  Greville's ghost could no doubt solve the conundrum for us, if we can interrupt one of his nightly rounds.

By the way, did list members catch the news in the NYTimes that the first graduate program in Shakespeare Authorship Studies is being convened at Brunel University in London?  And a "Statement of Reasonable Doubt" in the Stratfordian hyphothesis has been signed by the usual suspects: Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, etc.  I have a theory of my own that the celebrated roles of Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius, Cadfael, Underworld: Evolution) were actually performed by someone else.  In some cases, he might actually support the theory himself.  The truth will out.

Hannibal



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----- Original Message -----

From: anne prescott <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:48 am

Subject: Re: Master of Shakespeare

> Thanks for this, Matt. I think. Sort of. I'll add Greville to Mary
>
> Sidney amd Oxford as the creator of Shakespeare. I might add that
> nowadays once your college posts its curriculum that if, as in my
> case this year, you're doing the Shakespeare course, you get some
> mighty peculiar ads for books or even, in my case, a slim volume.
> But
> even before such public posting, years ago when I was teaching my
> fable and fantasy course I got an essay from someone showing that
> Queen Victoria wrote the Alice books. Curiouser and curiouser. Off
> to
> teach L's LL and will tell the students about Greville (and the
> Greville kids, as we call them at Kalamazoo). By the way, decades
> ago
> when I was on my honeymoon and we were visiting Warwick castle the
>
> guide told us that Greville "walks" there. Maybe he reads this e-
> list, too. Anne.
>
> On Sep 19, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Steggle, Matthew wrote:
>
> > Fulke Greville fans might want to know that there's a new book
> out,
> > which has a rather surprising hypothesis about him:
> >
> > http://www.masterofshakespeare.com/
> >
> > I note that its ideas are already turning up on wikipedia, so
> > expect a rush of enquiries.
> >
> > - Matt
>
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