Dickens' letter
Tom Reedy
Fellowship "Hall of Fools" or whatever it's called, and found this. I'm
currently sifting through the Dickens material to see what his take on the
authorship was (hint: it ain't good news for the Fellowship).
This is from *The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. III, 1842-1843,* House,
Storey and Tillotson, eds. Clarendon, Oxford 1974, p. 512
To William Sandys
1, Devonshire Terrace, June 13th, 1843.
Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your kind note. I shall hope to see you when we return to
town, for which we shall now be absent (with a short interval in next month)
unti October. Your account of the Cornishmen gave me great pleasure; and if
I were not sunk in engagements so far, that the crown of my head is
invisible to my nearest friends, I should have asked you to make me known to
them. The new dialogue I will ask you by-and-by to let me see. I have, for
the present, abandoned the idea of sinking a shaft in Cornwall.
I have sent your Shakesperian extracts [1] to Collier [2]. It is a great
comfort, to my thinking, that so little is known concerning the poet. It is
a fine mystery; and I tremble every day lest something should come out. If
he had had a Boswell, society wouldn't have respected his grave, but would
calmly have had his skull in the phrenological shop-windows.
Believe me
Faithfully Yours
[Charles Dickens]
[1] Appeared in the Shakespeare Society's Papers, Vol. III, 1847, as Art. V,
pp. 22-32, "Shakespeare illustrated by the dialect of Cornwall."
[2] John Payne Collier (1789-1883), Shakespeare critic and editor now mostly
known for his Shakespeare forgeries.
I don't see any doubt about the conventional attribution being expressed
here. More later.
TR
Neil Brennen
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Thanks Tom. lecolin, your serve.
Art Neuendorffer
> This is from *The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. III, 1842-1843,
>*House, Storey and Tillotson, eds. Clarendon, Oxford 1974, p. 512
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http://www.sirbacon.org/links/dickens.htm
It sounds to me as if Dickens suspects something rather
unflattering concerning "the poet" (at least for Victorian times).
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impetus for the Criminal Law Amendment Act. Before ratifying this act, the
inclusion was given to a second section, proposed by Henry Labouchere, which
called for the imprisonment of "any male person guilty of an act of gross
indecency with another male person in public or in private" ("Labouchere
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Measure for Measure Act 4, Scene 2
ABHORSON A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.
POMPEY Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir,
a good favour you have, but that you have a hanging
look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
ABHORSON Ay, sir; a mystery
POMPEY Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and
your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,
using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:
but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I
should be hanged, I cannot imagine.
ABHORSON Sir, it is a mystery.
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The Winter's Tale Act 5, Scene 2
AUTOLYCUS: this mystery remained undiscoVERED.
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Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 4, Scene 2
OTHELLO: Your mystery, your mystery:
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Art Neuendorffer
Richard Nathan
"visited and promoted the purchase of Shakespeare's Birthplace."
He was not an anti-Strat.
As usual, the anti-Strats are full of shit.