humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Apr 13, 9:23=A0pm, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:

> =A0Mark Twain =BB Is Shakespeare Dead? =BB Chapter 8
> .
> <> uncheapened, unwatered by guesses, and surmises, and maybe-so's,
> and might-have-beens, and could-have-beens, and must-have-beens,
> and the rest of that ton of plaster of paris out of which the
> biographers have built the colossal brontosaur which goes by
> the Stratford actor's name, that it quite convinces me that
> the man who wrote Shakespeare's Works knew all about law
> and lawyers. Also, that that man could not have been
> the Stratford Shakespeare--and WASN'T.>>

Twain bases his case on the argument that the author couldn't have
been a country hick. What I find so remarkable about that is the fact
Twain himself was a country hick.

It's an excellent work of propoganda -- he takes a chapter or two, as
I recall, to subtly link Shakespeare to Lucifer -- but I don't think
he successfully knocks down Shakespeare's authorship or builds up
Bacon's.


Conrad.