... and shares the concept of an Elective Monarchy with the US of A.  You'all got rid of kings when you broke lose in the 18thC, but you kept the idea of kingship, even if it is term-limited.

The tussle between the President, the Senate, and Congress reminds me of nothing so much as the problems 18thC British kings (and occasionally queens) had with the then both still powerful Houses of Lords and Commons.

Robin

On 19 October 2016 at 22:07 Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hamlet of course is the closest biographical/textual link to de Vere...



>>> Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/16 4:04 PM >>>

Everybody's jealous of my skull.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Johnson<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 19, 2016 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Why Shakespeare Matters debate

Poor Mark Yorick!

>>> Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/16 3:52 PM >>>
Ben offered to edit. I should have let him.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 19, 2016 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Why Shakespeare Matters debate

About time you owned up Mark

On 19 October 2016 at 21:44, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I see that I've let this go on far too long. It was a jewish man. Me. I wrote the plays.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bircumshaw <000005b0d06ee449-dmarc-[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 19, 2016 3:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]AC.UK
Subject: Re: Why Shakespeare Matters debate

Someone once claimed that Shakespeare was written by another man also called Shakespeare while there is too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyn-3GNOd7w



On 19 October 2016 at 18:41, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks, Jamie!

No, I certainly didn't mean it as unkind...

Kent

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/16 11:17 AM >>>

O and I meant to say, I didn't take your remark as at all unkind, just funny.

On 19 Oct 2016, at 17:05, Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dammit, Kent, you're right again.  (As I said in an email to you I hadn't meant to go b/c.) I had a few fruitless years (not) doing post-graduate research there on Hart Crane, with dismal supervision - Oxford, at least in those days, was certainly not the place to go for American literature. Nor, pace Robin, where I'd look for a schooling in good manners - but I studied before that at Nottingham, and there I actually got something of an education.
  Excuse the reminiscences, but you did ask!
Jamie


On 18 Oct 2016, at 21:15, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

You mean you went to Oxford, Jamie?

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/18/16 3:11 PM >>>
You’re right I went to Cambridge but only as a decorator where I worked on a house for about four ever colder months. Still I’m sure all that clever varsity wit must have rubbed off on me.
 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: Why Shakespeare Matters debate
 

That's nice of you to say, Jamie.

Though of course, you went to Cambridge, so you are probably making fun of me in a subtle way that is beyond me.

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/18/16 2:41 PM >>>

Don't do yourself down, Kent: it's not rattling that counts - resonating's better.
 

On 18 Oct 2016, at 20:34, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

In that debate video, when I watch Alexander Waugh, anti-Stratfordian grandson of Evelyn, and see how easily he offers arcane, rat-a-tat facts in off-the-cuff rebuttal, I am reminded how little I really know, or ever will know, now, and how modest my cerebrum is compared to those of many others, especially intellectuals from Britain trained at Oxbridge. That's meant as both a funny and serious sentence. 




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