humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 26, 8:09 am, Tom Reedy wrote:
> On Feb 26, 4:47 am, "Paul Crowley"
>
>
>
> wrote:
> > "Tom Reedy" wrote in message
>
> >news:0c25a645-47e2-4ec4-8f84-bbb25c040c0b@d5g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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> > > Egan, who I suppose would be termed a quasi-Oxfordian by Crowley,

> > Reedy has no idea what is going on. There
> > is no such thing as a 'quasi-Oxfordian'. It
> > is not a phrase that makes any sense. There
> > are a great variety of Oxfordians, some with
> > hopelessly confused and screwed-up minds.
> > The phrase "quasi-Oxfordian" has no context.
>
> > There ARE 'quasi-Stratfordians' -- people
> > who have changed nothing (or almost
> > nothing) of their understanding of the history
> > or the literature, but have -- for some peculiar
> > (and often perverse) reason -- slipped on
> > some other T-shirt, swapping the name of the
> > Stratman for another -- one (and sometimes
> > more) of Oxford, Marlow, Bacon, Neville, etc.,
> > etc.
>
> > Paul.

> So just in case anybody's keeping count, Crowley is definitely a
> "yes."
>
> TR

Indeed, he was already auditioning assiduously for the part in his
unforgettable and erudite commentary upon the "Ray Mignot" sonnet.