humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Tom Reedy wrote:
> A poster on another board has said he thinks the upcoming decade will
> see more establishment Shakespearean academics join into the
> authorship debate and that they will eventually win it. I know last
> year James Shapiro announced he was writing a book on it, but I
> haven't heard of any others.
>
> Does anybody think the same, and if so, how do you think the
> antiStrats will fare and why?

Are geologists planning on debating the flat earthers? Astronomers the
geocentrists? If they did, what could they possible hope to gain? Rarely
does the rational trump the irrational (and these boards would seem the
living proof).

If academics did weigh in on the 'debate' it would, I imagine, mainly be
to protect 'hearts and minds' against the marketing onslaught of
Oxfordianism. I doubt any would do it out of 'interest'- what is
interesting about a cult that mistakes literary criticism for history?
(Ok, perhaps studying the cult might be interesting, but engaging them
in 'rational' debate? nada...)

Ign.

> TR