humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 31, 8:44 pm, Elizabeth wrote:
> On Mar 30, 8:07 am, 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?
>
> > TR
>
> On Mar 30, 8:07 am, 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 . . .
>
> Stratfordianism is still suffering from the backlash
> of the attacks on the Baconians.
>
> In his influential article in the London Times Literary
> Supplement, Sir Sidney Lee called the Baconians
> 'psychotics' and 'psychopaths.'
>
> Over time that attack and others translated into the
> broad conviction that
>
> . . .any academic engaged in the Shakespeare
> authorship dispute has to be crazy.
>
> This effect favors the Oxfordians because a hundred
> thousand lit profs are silent (lest they be thought
> crazy) while the Oxfordians have 'publicity units.'
>
> Did you know that the newly-reelected Director of the
> Executive Board of the Shakespeare Fellowship is
> a professional publicist?

Excuse me. That's probably Shakespeare-Oxford
Fellowship or Oxford-Shakespeare Fellowship. This
hijacking of 'Shakespeare' is confusing.