humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Elizabeth wrote:
>
> Bob Grumman wrote:
> >
> > Elizabeth wrote:
> > >
> > > What if you woke up tomorrow
> > > morning and upon going to the
> > > Drudge Report or the New York
> > > Times, you saw a headline
> > > announcing that irrefutable
> > > evidence had been located
> > > that disproved the authorship of
> > > your candidate?

I think the Drudge Report has already caused quite enough
mischief this week.

> > > Which alternative authorship
> > > candidate would you pick and
> > > why?

William Shakespeare because, unlike most anti-Stratfordians,
my reasons for thinking that Marlowe did it have nothing at
all to do with any alleged inability on Shakespeare's part.

> > > (I would have to go with the
> > > Strats).
> >
> > > Here's some choices:
> >
> > > Shacksper
> > > Neville
> > > Greville
> > > Mary Sidney
> > > Oxford
> > > Bacon
> > > Rutland
> > > Marlowe
> > > Derby
> > > Elizabeth
> > > Ralegh
> >
> > I've always said Marlowe--because he had the poetic
> > genius to have been Shakespeare, and because I admire
> > his iconoclasm. Bacon would be my third choice, but
> > way behind Marlowe. On the other hand, if it's okay
> > to give Marlowe a fake death, I wouldn't mind Nashe
> > getting one, and being Shakespeare.

Oh dear me no. If Nashe's death was faked he became
Thomas Dekker.

> You're so right about Nashe. He is my
> first choice after Bacon (incidently in the
> Act I, Scene I, Nashe identifies Bacon as
> Shakespeare -- the proof was found by
> a Strat critic, Isabelle Kittson Brown, it's
> been in continuous print since 1920 but if
> something can't get into the right journals
> it doesn't exist, does it.

Act I, Scene I, eh? I must look it up.


Peter F.