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Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity [Fulke Greville]
Telegraph ^ | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | David Harrison

Posted on 08/31/2009 7:33:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Parishioners at St Mary's church in Warwick have sought permission to examine the contents of the 17th century monument built by Fulke Greville, a writer and contemporary of Shakespeare who some believe is the true author of several of the Bard's works... the search has been prompted by the discovery by an historian of clues in Greville's writings which suggest he had several manuscripts buried there, including a copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A radar scan of the sarcophagus has already indicated the presence inside of three "box like" shapes. The searchers believe these could contain documents and a further examination is now being proposed which they hope will finally prove the link between Greville and Shakespeare. The initial search, using ground penetrating radar, was approved by the parochial church council and the diocesan council. The team now wants to use an endoscope -- a tiny video camera on a long thin tube -- to be inserted into the monument to test his claims... The parochial council also wants the sarcophagus to be opened because it believes that any new evidence will bring extra visitors and save the church, the foundations of which date back 900 years, from bankruptcy... However, the diocesan advisory committee and the Church Buildings Council are resisting the new search, on "ethical grounds" and a final decision could now be taken by the diocese's consistory court. The search has been prompted by the work of the historian AWL Saunders. He believes there are several clues suggesting Greville, who is a distant ancestor, is responsible for writing a number of Shakespeare's works.

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1 posted on 08/31/2009 7:33:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Believe it or not, when I was securing an elite liberal arts education at Bowdoin College, I actually studied the poetry of Fulke Greville. He wasn't Shakespeare, not by a damn sight.
2 posted on 08/31/2009 7:36:43 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SunkenCiv
Key sentence:

The parochial council also wants the sarcophagus to be opened because it believes that any new evidence will bring extra visitors and save the church, the foundations of which date back 900 years, from bankruptcy...


3 posted on 08/31/2009 7:42:09 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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Ben Jonson, rival and contemporary (and good friend) of Shakespeare, helped collect, organize, and edit the First Folio of Shakespeare's works. He also contributed one of a number of dedicatory introductions, in which he referred to Shakespeare by name, and called him "sweet swan of Avon", and best known perhaps is this tribute -- "He was not of an age, but for all time !".

Guess Ben Jonson was one of the masterminds of the conspiracy. ;')

I had the pleasure of getting a great price on that Michael Wood documentary on Shakespeare, and have watched it twice since July. There's a cool segment where a couple of British stage actors who mostly work in the Elizabethan idiom joke about the differences between Christopher "Kit" Marlowe -- who has also been claimed to have been the "real" author of Shakespeare's works -- and Shakespeare. After one gives an illustrative example (soliloquies), the other says, you'll never find an actor who believes that they were the same person. :')

A fun Oh So Mysteriouso topic, worth a ping I think.

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4 posted on 08/31/2009 7:42:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Francis Bacon?????


5 posted on 08/31/2009 7:43:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SkyDancer

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon.


6 posted on 08/31/2009 7:51:36 PM PDT by CaptRon
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To: SkyDancer
Francis Bacon?????

Do you mean "Six Degrees of Separation" Bacon?

7 posted on 08/31/2009 7:53:57 PM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: SkyDancer
I believed it to be Edward Devere (7th Earl of Oxford). Joseph Sobran made a good case for him in Alias Shakespeare (at least I thought so).
8 posted on 08/31/2009 7:54:15 PM PDT by VR-21 (If it's a vision of the future you want......)
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To: SunkenCiv
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

It's a Fulkeing tradegdy.
9 posted on 08/31/2009 7:56:11 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought the true author of Shakespeare’s Works was an infinite number of monkeys?


10 posted on 08/31/2009 7:56:26 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (One man, alone! Betrayed by the country he loves, now its last hope in their final hour of need!)
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To: Constitution Day

Exactly. :’) From that standpoint, I don’t begrudge them. Part of the reason for the survival of the King Arthur legend is due to a promo campaign by Glastonbury.


11 posted on 08/31/2009 7:56:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Wow, lucky bum. ;’)


12 posted on 08/31/2009 7:56:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

As far as the books go my bet is on the termites.


13 posted on 08/31/2009 7:57:03 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: BIGLOOK

IBTZ. ;’) :’D That guy had a little euphony problem with his name, maybe that’s why he devoted his life to writing some of the world’s greatest masterpieces under an assumed name. ;’)


14 posted on 08/31/2009 7:58:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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"Fulke spent the equivalent of £300,000 today on a marble sarcophagus at St Mary's. No man would build something like that and leave it empty. There is definitely something down there and we want to find out what it is."

What means this? Isn't Lord Dedboddy in there?

15 posted on 08/31/2009 7:58:51 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rebellion is not brewing. Frog is brewing.)
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To: Alex Murphy

That would explain “Timon of Athens” and “Titus Andronicus”...


16 posted on 08/31/2009 7:59:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Hey, maybe he was ticked off at his heirs and wanted to leave them destitute. ;’)


17 posted on 08/31/2009 8:00:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Parley Baer

Heh...


18 posted on 08/31/2009 8:00:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SkyDancer; CaptRon; Auntie Dem; VR-21

:’) An older title (I think circa 1960), bought it used, I read a year or more ago, called “The Hidden Shakespeare”, thoroughly examines the idea that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, and traces all of this lunacy back to a nutty book from about 150 years ago (if memory serves). One book by one wackadoo has turned into a cottage industry serving generations of cranks. :’)


19 posted on 08/31/2009 8:03:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Shakespeare was the nom dewhatever of Guy Fawkes when Fawkes was working his propaganda mischief.

I thought everyone knew that?


20 posted on 08/31/2009 8:08:38 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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