humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

bookb...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> A small printing press, known as the Nameless, has just circulated a
> tract on the Shakespeare authorship question that reveals a conspiracy
> responsible for instigating the several factions of authorship
> attribution that perpetrate the continuing debate about who the Bard
> was.
>
> Since the late 17th C. and inception of a Shakespeare Industry,
> representatives of a British publisher, university club, and special
> sub-committee at the Foreign Office have met annually to advance a
> Shakespeare agenda enhancing British culture, tourism, and supporting
> the monitary system.
>
> Remarkably, what the Nameless Printing Press, has revealed is that the
> Shakespeare Conspiracy Foundation actively promotes conspiracies being
> advocated on the part of Shakespeare authorship attributions, mainly
> but not limited to Oxford, Marlowe, Bacon, Derby, and Queen Elizabeth.
>
> The Nameless Press goes so far as to suggest that the Shakespeare and
> other authorship conspiracies are linked to other conspiracies, real
> and imagined, that keep British culture before the public. It is
> alleged that news groups are now infiltrated by conspiracy-fixated
> personalities who are easily motivated by suspicions that institutions
> like Shakespeare are probably fake.
>
> bookburn, Happy April Fools Day
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King Richard II Act 2, Scene 2

QUEEN: 'Tis NOTHING less: conceit is still DERiVED
. From some forefather grief; mine is not so,
. For NOTHING had begot my something grief;
. Or something hath the NOTHING that I grieve:
. 'Tis in rEVERsion that I do possess;
. But what it is, that is *not yet known* ; what
. *I cannot name; 'tis *NAMELESS* woe, I wot*
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. The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 2, Scene 1
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VALENTINE: As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter
. Unto the *secret NAMELESS* friend of yours;
.
. Act 3, Scene 1
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SPEED: 'Item: She hath many *NAMELESS* virtues.'
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The Rape of Lucrece Stanza 75
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'So thy surviving husband shall remain
The scornful mark of EVERy open eye;
Thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain,
Thy issue blurr'd with *NAMELESS* bastardy:
And thou, the author of their obloquy,
Shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes,
And sung by children in succeeding times.
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Art Neuendorffer