Experts plan to exhume Shakespeare's body

icBirmingham ^ | Nov 1, 2005 | Name not given

[SpringheelJack]

The stated reasons for this are fraudulent, IMO. There's not one shred of evidence Shakespeare was murdered by anybody, least of all his son-in-law, and until now I'd never heard anyone suggest such a thing. Why not admit the real reason? They just think it'd be exciting to ogle Shakespeare's dead body.

[bnelson44]

And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Idle curiosity.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Cicero]

Epitaph on Himself
William Shakespeare


Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosèd here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.

[Charles Henrickson]

"Alas, poor Will! I knew him, Horatio. . . ."

[ClearCase_guy]

I have it on good authority that the son-in-law did not murder Shakespeare but did in fact kill Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.

[fat city]

Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?

[joesnuffy]

Bacon

No it's Beggin Strips

[decal]

"He has not so much brain as earwax."

[SpringheelJack]

Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?

Then the case is altered, of course.

[Cicero]

Not strips, rashers.

[Graymatter]

>>The stated reasons for this are fraudulent, IMO.

Yep, cherchez la $$$. Shakespeare was old by the standards of his time, his handwriting looked more than a little wobbly, and they say he'd been out whooping it up just before he died. All of which is way more evidence than the murder theory offers.

His son-in-law was a doctor, no? Married to Shakespeare's apparently illiterate daughter. Interesting family. :)

[decal]

"Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?"

What??!! Isn't he still alive??

[soltice]

let him - he would deserve whatever he got. (the american)

Hence the title "The Ugly American" rises again.

[fat city]

" What??!! Isn't he still alive??"

Yeah, but he hasn't written a decent comedy since he started taking steroids.

[decal]

"Yeah, but he hasn't written a decent comedy since he started taking steroids."

And to think it all started when he wrote "The Alchemist"...

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Out damned spot!

[rbg81]

Let me guess, when they finish the experiments on Shakespeares body, they will conclude that he was really a black, gay woman.