Was the Bard really the Bard?

Ashland Daily Tidings ^ | September 28, 2005 | Jennifer Margulis

[willyd]

Sir Francis Bacon is going to be mad when he hears this.

[maro]

And who was really Francis Bacon?

[APFel]

“These are some of the greatest works of literature in human history,” says Anderson, who adds that Americans, Australians, South Africans, Poles and Japanese all love Shakespeare’s work for the very human element in it.

In other words, there is a wide audience for this conspiracy book.

I'm sure it'll do well, but it could use an alien or two. Maybe a vampire.

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[SpringheelJack]

There is not one shred of evidence that de Vere, Bacon, or anybody else wrote Shakespeare's works.

Anderson says King Lear is actually based on de Vere’s own life experience, dividing up his wealth among his own three daughters.

Utter rot. "King Lear" is based on the account in Holinshed's Chronicles, with tips from an anonymous play published in 1594 called "King Leir".

that de Vere had an extramarital affair that went awry and led to a Montague-and-Capulet-like street war in London.

"Romeo and Juliet" is a dramatization of the 1562 poem by Arthur Brooke called "Romeus and Juliet".

[nopardons]

OMG...not this garbage again! Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's stuff. I've been reading and studying this stuff longer than the author of this tripe has been alive. That's it, end of conversation.

[nopardons]

Exactly so! :-)

[Larry Lucido]

Was the Bard really the Bard?

Not after he was dis-bard.

[Ichneumon]

Not after he was dis-bard.

And after Mozart was done composing, he began decomposing.

[Ichneumon]

Was the Bard really the Bard?

Well, The Illiad was actually not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

[fqued]

Not this again. Every few years someone re-dis-invents the wheel and claims that Shakespeare wasn't the author of his works. There are a couple of disputed works, but they are generally omitted from the canon, anyway.

[Billthedrill]

This again? What's this got to do with Darwin?

[gr8eman]

Homer Simpson?

[willyd]

Edward De Vere...William Shakespeare...Francis Bacon...Kevin Bacon...i win

[Ken H]

There is not one shred of evidence that de Vere, Bacon, or anybody else wrote Shakespeare's works.

Another example was an original work entitled Julius, Grab Her Before She Get Away, which he shortened to Julius Caesar.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Another example was an original work entitled Julius, Grab Her Before She Get Away, which he shortened to Julius Caesar."

Yes but there was also a companion piece written totally from the viewpoint of Ceaser and his growing unease about Brutus called "He Hate Me"

[Ken H]

The Illiad was actually not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

DOH!

[SpringheelJack]

Yes but there was also a companion piece written totally from the viewpoint of Ceaser and his growing unease about Brutus called "He Hate Me"

As a sequel, though, I don't think it matches the followup to "A Midsummer Night Dream" in which Bottom ascends to heaven and gets into all sorts of hijinks, called "Bottom's Up".

[Neanderthal]

The columnist Joseph Sobran wrote a similar book about 7 years ago. He is convinced that it's De Vere, too.

[SpringheelJack]

The columnist Joseph Sobran wrote a similar book about 7 years ago. He is convinced that it's De Vere, too.

He must be convinced in the existence of leprechauns too. Equally good evidence.