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To: lfod1776
I'm not sure where you get your "information". The only serious argument that has ever been proposed againt de Vere's authorship is the conventional dating of some of the plays

Well, maybe you should read a little bit more. I'd like to discuss it more with you, but you are coming off as a bit onboxious. You apparently haven't read about many of the issues surrounding authorship, so when confronted with them, you don't even bother to address them, but refer to "your 'information.'" Do you see how that could be construed as obnoxious? Thank you, I have studied Shakespeare for years, and it was my emphasis in college, I think I have more than a passing familiarity with it.

14 posted on 04/23/2006 9:39:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

"I'd like to discuss it more with you, but you are coming off as a bit onboxious."

A dislike for my personality does not constitute "information" or evidence. If that's the best you can come up with, I think any reasonable person would conclude that you've lost the argument.

What I've read is that de Vere's known publications were from early in his life. Do you know of anything he is known to have published under his own name during the 1590s? De Vere is known to have personally visited all of the Italian cities featured in the plays, was a "Law Lord" ( Shake-Speare's fondness for precise legal terminology has oft been noted ), and like Hamlet de Vere was attacked by pirates while returning to England!

This is a good article on the authorship controvery:

http://shakespearefellowship.org/virtualclassroom/begguide.htm#Introduction


15 posted on 04/23/2006 11:02:54 PM PDT by lfod1776
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