humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 24, 1:17=C2=A0pm, Roundtable wrote:
> On 22 Feb., 19:34, lackpurity wrote:
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> > On Feb 22, 11:15=EF=BF=BDam, Roundtable wro=
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> > > On 16 Feb., 07:19, Algernon H.Nuttsakk
> > > wrote:
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> > > > When, WHEN, I ask you, will academia, with its
> > > > peer-reviewed puke, and its never-ending fauning
> > > > over Mozart, =EF=BF=BDever realize how UTTERLY DAFT IT
> > > > IS TO SUPPOSE THAT AN ASS-FONDUE-SMEARED GOAT FUCKER
> > > > LIKE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COULD HAVE WRITTEN THE
> > > > EXQUISITE LOVE DALLIANCES OF OUR MIDSUMMER'S DREAM????
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> > > > Surely, Frost's penmanship resembles the frog
> > > > scratches we have come to know as the Strat man's
> > > > feeble "handwriting", which exists only in the form
> > > > of signatures involved in his speculative and somewhat
> > > > sad and lumpish business dealings. But Frost was hardly a
> > > > megagenius of the umptysquath magnitude that the
> > > > mighty Earl of Oxford was, a man who peppered his
> > > > plays with the most exquisitely erudite Latin, who
> > > > knew the topography of Italy like the back of his
> > > > tin mines, and whose academically detailed knowledge
> > > > of the law produced sonnet 46: "Defendent"! "Verdict"!
> > > > "Plea"! Who could have been more acquainted with this
> > > > specialized terminology than Oxford, a man with an M.A.!
> > > > I feel confident that when manuscript copies of
> > > > the Earl's plays do surface, signed with his immortal
> > > > name, the penmanship will be as clear a bell, with
> > > > curves that would delight a Rembrandt, and with "I"'s
> > > > dotted with the most fantastical and intricate fractal
> > > > conceptions! Surely you don't believe, you CAN'T believe,
> > > > that the Stratman, who, for a brief period in his
> > > > miserable existence managed to stand-in for the mighty
> > > > Earl, could have written anything more than a filthy
> > > > receipt for his shit-filled business dealings? The
> > > > Stratman, through an act of P.T. Barnumish
> > > > prestidigitation, managed to parlay his backwater
> > > > bullshit into immortality, and could not have written
> > > > the immortal Hamlet anymore than he could have
> > > > defecated a chocolate cake for the Queen's birthday,
> > > > although I'm sure he tried.
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> > > > AHN
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> > > Bugger off you foul-mouthed libel-spouting excrement on legs.
> > > And stop insulting Will of Stratford.
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> > > RThttp://roundtable.iwarp.com
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> > MM:
> > I'm sure God will give you credit for defending the Ever-Living Poet.
> > Thanks.
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> > It's really amazing how people try to install Edward de Vere, William
> > Stanley, and a host of others on Shakespeare's throne. =C2=A0His extern'=

> > was honored. =C2=A0Nobody is even close to him, with the exceptions of
> > Francis Bacon and Countess of Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert. =C2=A0Both
> > wrote their own works. =C2=A0Francis Bacon even advised us to honor thy
> > predecessors, or you would repent in the end.
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> > If his extern' was honored, then OBVIOUSLY, everybody knew him. =C2=A0Th=
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> > knew his identity. =C2=A0It was William Shakespeare of Stratford, a.k.a.=

> > pleasant Willie, according to Edmund Spenser. =C2=A0It was only after 15=
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> > years, that some decided to fantasize, and Anti-Stratfordianism was
> > born. =C2=A0It would never have been considered earlier.
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> 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?
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> 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; =C2=A0 then Will
> managed
> to buy New Place AND land AND orchards, all the while helping the
> Globe Theatre to thrive. His poor son died, but his first daughter
> married
> well, even though his second did not, and he managed to keep his
> wife and his family thriving.
> All this is quite an achievement. Are we HLASians all so successful?
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> He may have been a "country boy" at the beginning, but what's wrong
> with that?
> Anyway, it's not true. His father was Mayor for a while, in a small
> town, so he always was "somebody", and perhaps the "fall from
> grace" of his father's made Will Shakespeare stand out from the
> crowd even more than if he'd just have been any old glove-makers' son.
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> These attempts by the Anti's to portray him as a stuttering bumpkin
> snarling "Yar mum, I'se going oot to milk the coows" or whatever the
> Warwickshire accent is like, sleeping in the pig-sty in torn clothes
> and
> not knowing what shoes are for, is simply ludicrous.
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> Everyone who knew him agreed he had "the gift of the gab" and
> loved to talk, and could sweep people off their feet with his talk,
> for one thing.
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> In these 7 years I have been on HLAS I've seen people throw all kinds
> of insults
> at Will and at his family, claiming his daughter whored around,
> for example, or that Will was just a mercenary, greedy oaf, or that
> Ben Jonson's moving prologue to the FF was just a joke, or that
> Will's portrait was a caricature, and on and on and bloody on
> it goes.
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> If WIll were alive folks, you'd all be rotting in jail by now.
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> RThttp://roundtable.iwarp.com

MM:
Thanks for re-emphasizing the truth.

Michael Martin