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Poetry, plays, history of Shakespeare.
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VERITAS [VER : ATIS]
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------------------------------ -------------------- [link] . 1562 Will of the 16th Earl of Oxford PRO PROB11/46, ff. 174-6v (28 July 1562) . T{estamentum} Ioh{ann}is de Vere Comit{is} de Oxinford . In the name of God Amen. I Iohn *DE VEER* Erle of Oxinforde,... more »
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The Stratford Man, a pome
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This from several years ago, as true and bright as ever, perfect in its numbers and a joy to scholars everywhere. THE STRATFORD MAN by Richard Kennedy In Stratford town, a thoroughfare Of garbage heaps and little care, Where sewers ran into the near- By swanny Avon river there, Was born a child all claim to be... more »
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DONNE / BASSE
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------------------------------ ------------------------------ ...<<The Cambridge University Press website posted an abstract for an article which proves, apparently, that John Donne wrote WILLM. BASSE's elegy to Shakespeare. . Shakespeare Survey Volume 59: Editing Shakespeare Who Wrote William Basse's 'Elegy on Shakespeare'?:... more »
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*IDLE CELL*
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------------------------------ ---------------- ...--------------------------- ------------------------- [link] <<the expression "dead of late," it has been remarked by others, means, "not that he is literally dead but that he is in retirement." This reading is not only necessary to make it fit in with what follows... more »
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I WON'T MISS NITS HERE
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------------------------------ ------------------------ .[link] . . Some interesting 5-letter Rollett strings . "found in arrays based on the first 144 letters . of the dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets.": . . *PHEON* : 1106d (Sidney *PHEON* crest) .............................. ........................ more »
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Who Will they think of next?
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Who Will they think of next? [link] <<Depending on which theory you favour, Shakespeare's plays were written by Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Middleton, the Countess of Pembroke, John Fletcher and the Earl of Derby. For centuries scholars have argued that a grammar-school... more »
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Campaspe
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----------------------------- ---------------------- Robert Detobel wrote to SFF: <<The matching of arms and letters was also a topic in England. In John Lyly’s play * Campaspe * Alexander the Great's general Hephestion says: “that whilst arms cease, arts may flourish, and joining letters with lances.” (I.i). The dichotomy of “arms and... more »
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"Shakespeare. He’s an integral part of our heritage and our identity.”
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```````````````````````````` (quote, excerpts) ```````````````````````````` IN A case of life imitating art imitating life, a British theatre company has announced plans to rebuild an Elizabethan playhouse using the set from the hit film Shakespeare in Love. The oak-timbered set, modelled on London’s 16th-century Rose Theatre,... more »
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