Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: Dennis
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Handwriting Tells The Story

On Feb 24, 12:38 pm, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:
> Melanie wrote:
>
> > Well, I was being coarse and uncouth and definitely un-ladylike, but
> > if one forgets that Shakespeare has been dead for 400 odd years, and
> > pretends he were alive today, this nasty talk on HLAS against him
> > is absolute libel and people would get sued for it,
> > and if the Strats don't defend him from it, who will?
>
> .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chiles
> .Melanie wrote:
>
> > Even if Will had NOT written the plays and had "just" gone to London
> > and acted on stage and built up the Globe Theatre and earned enough
> > money to obtain the long-deserved coat-of-arms for his poor father,
> > who, after all, did nothing worse than get into debt;
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> <> on the north-eastern side of town, in Henley Street,
> thanks to his ignominious debut in the town records on
> 29 April: fined a shilling, along with Humphrey Reynolds
> and Adrian Quiney, for making an unauthorised *DUNGHILL* ,>>
> .
> _William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius_ by Anthony Holden
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> "Shaksper: The Life, The Works, The Treasures,"
> (Simon & Schuster, $50).
> .
> <> time, Shaksper: The Life, the Works, the Treasures is unique in
> containing 30 items of removable facsimile memorabilia including:
> .
> 1) John Shaksper's *DUNGHILL* fine record
> 2)http://www.dogbag.com/product_poop.htm>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> . SIRACH 22:
> .
> A slothful man is compared to the filth of a *DUNGHILL* :
> EVERy man that takes it up *WILL SHAKE his hand*...
> as TIMBER girt and bound together in a building
> . *cannot be loosed with SHAKING* : so the heart
> . that is stablished by *advised counsel*
> . [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chiles]
> . shall fear at no time.
> . A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is
> . as a fair *PLAISTERING on the WALL* of a gallery.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> . READ IF THOV CANST,
> . WHOM ENVIOVS DEATH HATH *PLAST* WITH
> . IN THIS MONVMENT SHAKSPEARE:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> . FOX's Book of Martyrs ** CHAPTER XV
> .
> << *like a BUTCHER he lived, and like a BUTCHER he died* ,
> . and lay seven months and more unburied,
> . and at last like a carrion was buried in a *DUNGHILL* .>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> . King Henry IV, Part ii Act 5, Scene 3
> .
> PISTOL: Shal *DUNGHILL* curs confront the *HELICONs* ?
> . and shall good NOOSE be baffled?http://tinyurl.com/2zsvec
> -----------------------------------------------------

_The Drinking Academy_ Thomas Randolph(?)

Worldly: Rare he is amost refin'd gallant alredy. O the power of art.
(snip)
Cavaliero Whiffe: Sir ye se the effects of my skil that in a moments
space was
abyle by my chimistrie to extract so compleat a gentleman out (as I
may say almost) of a dung hill. He is now the Phenix of the age who
was lately alumpe of Pesantry the gallants adore him and happy is he
who can pay homage to his potent toe. wher he goes honor waits upon
him and fortune follows him with propetious wings.

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Nicole