humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> On Apr 12, 3:17=A0pm, Tom Veal wrote:
> > Let's see. Except for complaining about a dubious point that I had
> > already retracted, Dr. Stritmatter has let over six years go by since
> > I posted a series of criticisms of his book on Oxenford's Geneva
> > Bible:http://stromata.tripod.com/id288_march_16_2002.htmhttp://stromata.=
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Elizabeth wrote:

> Did you cover the fact that it's the Calvinist
> Puritan Anne Cecil's Geneva Bible? =A0That's her
> 'juvenile hand' as Kathman put it. =A0Stritmatter
> leaped to the conclusion that Oxford, a Roman
> Catholic, decided to (blasphemously) make notes
> in a bible he dare not read per the anathema of the
> Council of Trent for plays he might want to write
> decades later.

De Vere hated Shakespeare maybe, and couldn't stand him lifting
biblical allusion and terminology, and Oxford would sit obsessively
bewrought there on tin pan alley, marking up language in his wife's
prayerbook that he knew that that lame Shakespeare had stolen.

(Tagging a bible is not writing a play. Any scenario is equally
valid.)

Next thing you know, we'll be talking to Oxfordian/Cecilians.

Greg Reynolds