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Offline Sus_pilot

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Happy Holidays!
« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2012, 11:40:42 PM »
"Anti-Stratfordians"?  Whattheheck?

ETA: Never mind. The Bard is an area where I'm particularly weak.
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Offline gillianren

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Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2012, 11:53:56 PM »
Anti-Stratfordian means "doesn't believe Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays."  I can argue that for days, but no one else seems to want to.
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Offline ka9q

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Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2012, 05:02:03 AM »
Does it really matter? Would the plays we know as "Shakespeare's plays" be any worse if they were actually written by others?
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2012, 08:14:45 AM »
Quote from: gillianren on December 25, 2012, 11:53:56 PM
Anti-Stratfordian means "doesn't believe Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays."  I can argue that for days, but no one else seems to want to.
I find it highly improbable that some Shmoe from the hinterland could have written all those plays and poetry? Lets discuss the exact nature of the conspiracy that hid the true author of the plays.
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Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2012, 12:00:22 PM »
Quote from: ka9q on December 26, 2012, 05:02:03 AM
Does it really matter? Would the plays we know as "Shakespeare's plays" be any worse if they were actually written by others?


Depends on how you define "does it matter?" and who you think actually wrote them.  Mostly, it's people rejecting the idea that, yes, "some shmoe from the hinterland" could have done it.  Most of the proposed alternate authors are nobles--one is Queen Elizabeth!
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Offline Glom

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Re: Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #20 on: December 26, 2012, 05:37:41 PM »
Quote from: Echnaton on December 25, 2012, 08:45:50 PM
Quote from: gillianren on December 25, 2012, 12:11:17 PM
Quote from: Echnaton on December 24, 2012, 11:06:56 PM
Happy holidays to all and may the New Year be hoax free.   

That would be a Christmas miracle.
It would also kind of end our reason for being on this board.  And since I like hanging out with all of you, I've changed my mind.  I wish us all a moon hoax filled New Year instead.

We could just enjoy celebrating the early American manned space program. It was a magnificent time (the space program itself, not the 1960s which were horrible with bad music, baby boomers, horrible architecture plus all the social problems of the time).

Btw, good looking very gibbous moon out tonight with Jupiter nearby.
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Offline Al Johnston

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Re: Happy Holidays!
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2012, 07:20:16 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on December 25, 2012, 11:53:56 PM
Anti-Stratfordian means "doesn't believe Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays."  I can argue that for days, but no one else seems to want to.

I rather like Gielgud's response to one such theory:

"What self respecting actor would join the Royal Bacon Company?"

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