humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 19, 6:58=A0pm, "Paul Crowley"
wrote:
> "Peter Groves" wrote in message
>
> news:yIgEj.505$n8.80@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> >I have a retired surgeon friend who is showing ominous signs of incipient=

> > Looney-ism.
>
> Intelligent lay people can pick up on
> the absurdity of the Stratfordian story.
>
> > The problem is that ant-strats lie (e.g. "No-one during his
> > lifetiome referred to Shakespeare as a dramatist") and intelligent retir=
ed
> > professionals take them seriously because they don't expect outright
> > mendacity.
>
> This presumably comes from the ambiguity
> of the name.
>
> No-one during his lifetime referred to the
> STRATMAN as a dramatist

How would you know? Do you have a time machine? Did you eavesdrop on
every conversation in England between ca. 1585-1616?

Once again, Crowley shows his ignorance.

> (one reason
> being his illiteracy). The poet was obviously
> publishing plays over the name 'W. Shake-
> speare' (and minor variants) from 1598, and
> over that name for the long poems in 1593/4.

Yes, the poet William Shakespeare.

>
> Paul.

When did you retire from thinking?

TR