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To: luvbach1
...perhaps accounting for his lack of activity and accomplishment in other realms.

Nothing can come from nothing.

The Stratford Shakespeare was a blank. There are only several examples of his signature after an exhaustive mining of the Elizabethian records. The writer of the plays had to have been trained in the law, as they are chock full of correct legal terms, concepts and situations. If Shakespeare had even been a lowly law clerk, his signature would be on many surviving documents. His signature barely exists.

3 posted on 09/19/2005 9:13:13 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch
Nothing can come from nothing.

Did I say that Shakespeare did not perform research for his plays? And undoubtedly read widely. Also, being a lofty genius helped.

7 posted on 09/19/2005 9:38:47 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: Plutarch
The Stratford Shakespeare was a blank. There are only several examples of his signature after an exhaustive mining of the Elizabethian records.

Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Besides, there is at least one play manuscript partially in Shakespeare's hand. How many play manuscripts survive in Oxford's hand?

The writer of the plays had to have been trained in the law, as they are chock full of correct legal terms, concepts and situations.

And only a trained lawyer could get this right? I'm not a lawyer, but I can certainly use some of the terminology correctly. I'm not a weaver, but I can describe how to spin and loom.

10 posted on 09/19/2005 10:22:32 PM PDT by LexBaird (tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: Plutarch
There are only several examples of his signature after an exhaustive mining of the Elizabethian records.

That's way more than the one signature we have of Christopher Marlowe and of Thomas Kyd, or the none we have of Robert Greene and John Webster.

The writer of the plays had to have been trained in the law, as they are chock full of correct legal terms, concepts and situations.

There's no reason to think he had to have been trained in the law at all.

21 posted on 09/29/2005 11:25:47 PM PDT by SpringheelJack
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