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Cryptic Signatures That ‘Prove Shakespeare Was a Secret Catholic’
The Times (UK) ^
| 12/22/09
| Richard Owen
Posted on 12/22/2009 6:50:24 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
Someone recently observed in “First Things” that all Crackpots have a theory about Shakespeare. I think this is true, based on my observation of my own family’s frightfully numerous Crackpots.
I have no theory about Shakespeare, which demonstrates (whew!) that I am not a Crackpot.
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:08:09 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Anoreth, Warrior Goddess of the Coast! She's violent and sarcastic - what's not to love?)
To: Tax-chick
I have this thoery about a gigantic crow flying around the neighborhood today ~ he's hungry!
This thing has a 3 ft wingspan.
Now, returing to Shakespeare, his daughter and Marlowe's son were early Jamestown VA settlers.
There, work with that one remembering that Shakespeare, like others of his age, believed the New World was inhabited by fantastic beings ~ so maybe he was in King Powhatan's Court!
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:15:08 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: marshmallow
So, is it the cryptic signature of the “real” Shakespeare, or one of the guys suspecting of actually writing the plays (pretending to be Shakespeare), or what?
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:29:02 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: marshmallow
So it looks like Willie the Shake might have been a pioneer in the modern Exodus from Anglicanism.
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:39:19 AM PST
by
newheart
("It will keep the government out of your health care decisions..." Barack Obama, July 23, 2009)
To: muawiyah
Why, that explains *everything*! (Except the crow ... is it trash day on your street?)
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:41:44 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Anoreth, Warrior Goddess of the Coast! She's violent and sarcastic - what's not to love?)
To: Tax-chick
Actually not as crackpot as you might think. The theory is not new and there have been a few books that detail the theory. Here is a good book on the subject:
Shadowplay
To: HapaxLegamenon
My observation that every Crackpot has a theory was not a comment about the merits of the theory itself.
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:46:44 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Anoreth, Warrior Goddess of the Coast! She's violent and sarcastic - what's not to love?)
To: Tax-chick
Someone recently observed in First Things that all Crackpots have a theory about Shakespeare. Oh, the irony!
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:47:20 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Macbeth is ripe for shaking, and the powers above put on their instruments.)
To: ClearCase_guy
“First Things” contributors aren’t *all* crackpots!
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posted on
12/22/2009 7:50:52 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Anoreth, Warrior Goddess of the Coast! She's violent and sarcastic - what's not to love?)
To: marshmallow
I’ve long felt he was Catholic just from reading his works.
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posted on
12/22/2009 8:03:34 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: marshmallow
I’ve always thought that there was a sliver of truth in the theory that Shakespeare was a Catholic. His plays and writings all have a virtue to them. How about “A Christmas Carol” for instance?
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posted on
12/22/2009 8:22:14 AM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
My favorite version of “A Christmas Carol” has Edward Woodward playing the Ghost of Christmas Present.
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posted on
12/22/2009 8:49:11 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Anoreth, Warrior Goddess of the Coast! She's violent and sarcastic - what's not to love?)
To: onedoug
The 16th Earl of Oxford Edward De Vere was a Catholic, and is most likely the person who wrote all of Shakespear.
To: castlegreyskull
correction: 17th Earl of Oxford.
To: marshmallow
I’ve read long before of textual analysis suggesting he was a crypto-Catholic who tried to help keep the Catholic faith alive in England. You’ll recall “Hamlet,” for instance, describes the Prince’s anguish that the Queen (England?) has forsaken her true, murdered husband (Christ?) for the King that murdered Him (Henry?). If so, however, it contains also a warning against zealotry such as that which Guy Fawkes would have, for the avenger ends up killed. If that sounds far fetched to Protestants, know that nations (and the Church itself) were often modelled as brides of Christ. Also, note that Hamlet itself centers around using a play to point out the guilt of the murderous King.
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:18:22 AM PST
by
dangus
(Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
To: marshmallow
Sheesh... everyone knows Shakespere was black.
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12/22/2009 9:19:28 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:22:12 AM PST
by
NYer
("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
To: castlegreyskull
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:25:53 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: HapaxLegamenon
I read “Shadowplay” and I thought her theory was credible.
People forget that there was terrible persecution and bias against Catholics then in England.
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:27:52 AM PST
by
Melian
("Here's the moral of the story: Catholic witness has a cost." ~Archbishop Charles Chaput)
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