On Sunday, April 28, 2013 6:41:01 PM UTC-7, marco wrote:
> if someone other than WS wrote the canon,
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> it would seem his name on titles, along with Fletcher,
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> Middleton, and possibly Wilkins,
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> needs some explanation from Shakespeare deniers
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> Elizabeth writes . . . put me down as the leading
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> Shakespeare denier. Too much myth has grown up
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> around this character in the past four centuries,
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> For example, the academics who staged the
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> Shakespeare webinar didn't seem to realize that
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> Shakespeare didn't write any plays. So how are
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> they to seize the Shakespeare plays if they simply
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> do not exist?
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> It is interesting that the webinar fell apart before
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> anything could be decided by the Cambridge University
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> Press.
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> Here's where it stands: Ironically, Cambridge University
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> was Bacon's alma mater. Another coincidence is that
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> Cambridge University Press is housed at BUNEL. The
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> Francis Bacon collection, meaning Bacon's books, papers,
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> and the one First Folio which is now valued at 90,000
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> English pounds and in addition there are some original
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> manuscripts of the thirty-six plays in Bacon's hand.
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> Some of the memorabilia applies only to the stage and
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> Bacon's plays, for example, one of the most interesting
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> works is a translation by Bacon's cousin, Sir Thomas Hoby,
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> of Castiglione's The Courtier, the very book that Hamlet
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> is carrying around in the play. So there's another reason
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> to doubt that Shappere wrote any part of "his" works.
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> If you take a look at Bacon's FIRST FOLIO, you will
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> find that Bacon wrote the Comedies, Tragedies and
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> Histories.
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> Jonson supplied ravishing poetry for the fronticepiece
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> of Bacon's First Folio, Droeshout the Elder etched the
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> comical doublet which spells out B A C O N in
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> the braid and collar of the doublet. The First Folio
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> image is that of Bacon, Droeshout engraved Bacon to
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> the life.
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> Shappere could not write his own name. Type in
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> Delahoyde on "Shakespeare's signatures" and see
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> that Shakespeare simply could not write his own
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> name, or for that matter, even spell it, he stops
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> cold when he's trying to write Shakespe . . . that's
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> as far as he gets.
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> Delahoyde is a professor at Washington
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> State University.
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> I give Delahoyde credit for facing down the
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> Strats who apparently will never give up believing
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> nonsense.
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> Here's another concern. Bacon with the help of
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> his friend and scribe Jonson, wrote thirty-six plays
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> and had them bound in Bacon's FIRST FOLIO.
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> After Droeshout the Younger flubbed up, his
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> uncle, I believe, Droeshout the Elder, took over
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> the engraving of the First Folio.
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> So my question to Strats is "where is Shappere's
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> First Folio," he apparently didn't have one and
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> at what point in his career did Shappere write his first
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> play?
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> I would like to know the name of Shappere's first
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> play.
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> This guy, with his erotic surname, did not write
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> plays, he may have been an actor for a time but
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> so what.
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> If Bacon [or whomever] wanted to remain anonymous,
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> it would seem, a collaboration, would make it more
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> complicated to do so.
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> Bacon didn't require a collaborator, Bacon was a genius,
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> one of the few geniuses that then-backward England
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> produced. I don't want to stint Jonson, he was a
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> wonderful poet, a loyal friend, and he took the
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> editorial responsibility for the first First Folio, and
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> in addition contributed a long verse of his own,
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> and yes, he was a phenomenal poet in his own right.
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> There are entire websites online which focus on the
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> frontmatter of the First Folio and nothing else.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare's_collaborations
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> Does that answer the question "did William Shakespeare
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> ever produce a single play?" It's been four centuries since
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> Shappere died at Stratford (a tourist trap since the era of
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> Jefferson and Adams) I read the book, they were sickened
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> by what they found in Stratford, and btw, Shakespeare
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> was not born in the house that as an adult he himself
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> built. So New Place is just as phony as everything else.
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> marc