Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: Tom Veal
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Interview with author of "The Dark Lady", a historical biography of Amelia Bassano

On Mar 19, 5:45=A0pm, "Peter Groves" wrote:
> I have a retired surgeon friend who is showing ominous signs of incipient
> Looney-ism. =A0The problem is that ant-strats lie (e.g. "No-one during his=

> lifetiome referred to Shakespeare as a dramatist") and intelligent retired=

> professionals take them seriously because they don't expect outright
> mendacity.
>
> --
> Peter G.
>
Maybe intelligent retired physicians don't expect outright mendacity,
but that explanation won't work for lawyers, who expect nothing else.