humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 31, 5:53 pm, "Paul Crowley"
wrote:
> "John W. Kennedy" wrote in messagenews:47f159be$0$25027$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>
>
>
> > 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?
>
> > Well, one might first point to
>
> > "I'm offering you a chance to be on the side that's right.
> > I don't know which one will win."
> > -- "That Hideous Strength"
>
> > Given the general decline in both critical thought and honesty, I am not sanguine about the
> > next decade or so in /any/ field.
>
> You sound just like my old astronomy
> professors in the 1620s

No wonder you know so much about the Early Modern era without having
to research!

TR

> and like most
> geology lecturers around 1970.
>
> Paul.