Posted on 02/18/2018 12:09:16 PM PST by onedoug
For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “Richard III,” “Henry V” and seven other plays. The news has caused Shakespeareans to sit up and take notice.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Brings to mind the Russian (Fomenko), who claims that the Christian Bible is older than the Hebrew Bible.
ML/NJ
"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels,” written in the late 1500s by George North...." From the article and duly attributed. :o)
“Another self taught expert “
Where do expert come from, self taught college professors??
What’s wrong with using a computer to discover facts? You do it every time you come to FR.
Yup. Some theories are just overly amusing
Keep believing that
‘Plagiarism Software’ isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
This whole sordid affair is directly caused by global warming, you know.
Damit! I knew it! Identity theft way back then!
He certainly did. And his contemporaries knew it.
Now there’s an interesting idea.
A Neil Kinnock speech.
I suspected as much
Great article, well-written and sourced. Another reason why the NYT is, in topics apart from politics, the best newspaper in the US.
Lemme guess:
The author of the consulted manuscript is a poor black boy, RIGHT..?
I think I can see where this is headed.
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
It is a matter of eternal regret that discussion of the artistic merits of “Our American Cousin” will be overshadowed by the one unrelated incident that marred its showing in DC that one spring evening in 1865.
You can also remember exactly which FReepers are idiots. Sorry about what I typed to you on June 6, 2003.
I had this thought as well.
This is "human interest" stories at its best.
I have always hated the suckiness of the nonsensical NYT politics.
But for some reason, they DO have articles that are real gems, so long as they can control themselves from inserting politics.
Unfortunately rare, but when they can tame their hysteria demons, sometimes they do a nice job.
The NYT magazine in the Sunday edition *used* to be one of my favorite things to read
. It includes interesting stories, book reviews, and the cherry on top, the NYT Sunday crossword puzzle.
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