Re: The Hidden Life is Best

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:46:05 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <fuvn2jd9ip00hpssed28ksln3telgqu5dk@4ax.com>,
John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:53:20 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
 

Widely travelled, he had first hand
knowledge of the settings used in his plays.

 
The only alternat authorship theory for the plays of Sakespeare that
isn't utterly ludicrous on its face is the one crediting Edward de
Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, for them.
 
Not that this theory is necessarily true either, but it's the only one
with even the slightest bit of plausibility.
 

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Except for the minor, very minor, detail that he died in June 1604
(several years before the dates several Shakespearean plays premiered).

IIRC, several SF authors managed to keep publishing after death, so
this doesn't seem like much of an argument to me.

Not, mind you, that I think that Shakespeare's plays were written by
anyone else than -- William Shakespeare.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"