Shakespear vs Bacon et al

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For some reason this story is getting mentioned in today's radio news bulletins. Wonder why?

And why question his authorship? Apart from the fact he was middle class and didn't have a knighthood? ;)
 
True, but why did up such a story on his birthday? Doesn't seem a great way to celebrate it. :confused:

Oh, and have you seen the google UK picture today? St George and the dragon re-enacting the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. One of their more amusing ones. :)
 
I'd like to celebrate by quoting a favourite bit of Shakespeare that reminds me of this forum in some ways.


Hamlet said:
What a piece of work is a man,
how noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties,
in form and moving how express and admirable,
in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!
The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals . . .​
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About a week ago, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' opinion on the issue: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123998633934729551.html

He says the evidence shows Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare "beyond a reasonable doubt," which leads me to worry whether the most senior judge on the highest court in the US doesn't actually understand the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt." He seems very fond of the appeal to ignorance: we don't know of any books Shakespeare owned--he must not have owned any; we have no evidence of any correspondence between Shakespeare and his contemporaries--he must not have written any letters."

Oh, and Antonin Scalia argues that it isn't a snobbish bias that leads him and others to believe that the earl of Oxford wrote the plays; no, it's a pro-democracy bias on the part of the people (including Mrs. Scalia) who tend to believe all the available evidence that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
 
Lucian said:
The date of his birth is not recorded; he was baptized on April 25 and died on April 23 (many years later, obviously).
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Okay, widely accepted to be approximately, roughly, maybe about then.
Also St George's day, the patron saint of England, who was (don't be pedantic here) a murdering ottoman who slew a dragon in Libya. Go figure.
 
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