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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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To: SunkenCiv
Conspiracy theorists have a need for existence ... didn't you see that movie with Mel Gibson - Conspiracy???
24 posted on 08/31/2009 8:54:27 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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26 posted on 08/31/2009 8:58:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv
One book by one wackadoo has turned into a cottage industry serving generations of cranks.

Not the first time.

33 posted on 09/01/2009 9:36:12 AM PDT by Jaded (No act of kindness, no matter how small, ever goes unpunished. -HFG)
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To: SunkenCiv

A woman published an article/book about 150 years ago that got some of this started. I noticed when I read of it that either her surname was Bacon or she was a descendant of his. So guess who she thought wrote Shakespeare? This stuff is nuts. However, it WAS an interesting period with a lot of intrigue. But I personally don’t think there’s any reasonable doubt who wrote Shakespeare. Much of what I’ve read is just plain, old-fashioned elitism. Surely someone who was educated in secondary schools back then and didn’t go to university couldn’t have written like THAT. He MUST have been well educated.


54 posted on 09/02/2009 10:26:47 AM PDT by twigs
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