humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 29, 11:17=A0pm, Elizabeth wrote:
>
> I don't know that much about Dee.

Ah-HA! So you admit you aren't in a position to definitively say he
*didn't* write the corpus.

>=A0I think
> he's more from the achemical era that
> preceeded Bacon. =A0

Yes, Dee died halfway through "Shakespeare"'s carreer. Which is how
we know the plays were written *much earlier* than has been supposed.




> ...
> Barnardo (Telesio) is the skeptic while
> Marcellus (Palingenius) who believed in
> multiple worlds is the True Believer in ghosts.
>
> I think I'm the first to spot this . . . =A0but when
> you have the right author . . .

That's interesting; can you supply sources for these authors? I don't
know them.


> There is one account of Leicester taking
> Bacon, when he was just a kid, down to Dee's
> estate to look at Dee's library but that's
> the only connection (other than invented)
> between Bacon and Dee. =A0Dee, as we
> know, skipped off on a fool's errand to
> the Continent, allowing the local morons
> to burn Montlake and it's incomparable
> library to the ground. =A0A library Leicester
> had paid for.

And with numerous original works of Dee's... which were never
recovered.


Conrad.