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You have to invent him inventing it to skirt it. Hardly scholarship is it?
March 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You have to invent him inventing it to skirt it. Hardly scholarship is it?
It has no bearing on the authorship question. Regional accents exist. People pronounce things differently who live a few miles apart. Still do. And phonetic spellings are obvious: hence Hamlet/Hamnet. Or do you think the author of Measure for Measure was Shaxberd?
February 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It has no bearing on the authorship question. Regional accents exist. People pronounce things differently who live a few miles apart. Still do. And phonetic spellings are obvious: hence Hamlet/Hamnet. Or do you think the author of Measure for Measure was Shaxberd?
They call him Riga-Toni!
February 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They call him Riga-Toni!
One thing that favours Twelfth Night being the play performed is that it was the feast of Saturnalia where norms were reversed. What a theatrical coup to place a mirror-image of Duke Orsino on stage! Imagine everybody's jaws dropping as his twin apparition stepped forward and spoke!
February 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
One thing that favours Twelfth Night being the play performed is that it was the feast of Saturnalia where norms were reversed. What a theatrical coup to place a mirror-image of Duke Orsino on stage! Imagine everybody's jaws dropping as his twin apparition stepped forward and spoke!
Digges would have no doubt been aware of Shakespeare's copious borrowing from his father and brothers work Paradoxies.
February 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Digges would have no doubt been aware of Shakespeare's copious borrowing from his father and brothers work Paradoxies.
Whole speeches taken straight from Thomas North? Or whole plays rewritten like Lier/A Shrew.
February 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Whole speeches taken straight from Thomas North? Or whole plays rewritten like Lier/A Shrew.
I'm assuming you are not talking about the signatures?
February 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm assuming you are not talking about the signatures?
But we know he did, so why is Digges lying about that?
February 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
But we know he did, so why is Digges lying about that?
You're really not grasping the authorship question, are you? This proves nothing.
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You're really not grasping the authorship question, are you? This proves nothing.
The middle section is full of lies, he stole from everyone and was accused of plagiarism often. So what does that say about it's intent?
February 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The middle section is full of lies, he stole from everyone and was accused of plagiarism often. So what does that say about it's intent?
Anyone can print someone's name. It's not proof of authorship!
February 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Anyone can print someone's name. It's not proof of authorship!
H&C would have been thrilled to be included, whether they wrote it or not. They were actors afterall, that counts as top billing! They didn't get mentioned in the quartos, its their Immortality as much as Shakespeare's.
February 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
H&C would have been thrilled to be included, whether they wrote it or not. They were actors afterall, that counts as top billing! They didn't get mentioned in the quartos, its their Immortality as much as Shakespeare's.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Calling them signatures doesn't make them signatures.
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Calling them signatures doesn't make them signatures.
Shakespeare's manuscripts? No, but there are published works.
January 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Shakespeare's manuscripts? No, but there are published works.
No, I've never seen any evidence that convincingly connects Oxford to a single play by Shakespeare. Not one.
January 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
No, I've never seen any evidence that convincingly connects Oxford to a single play by Shakespeare. Not one.
I agree, except I think there is an authorship question but it is severely hampered by Oxfordians vociferously banging their square peg into a round hole.
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I agree, except I think there is an authorship question but it is severely hampered by Oxfordians vociferously banging their square peg into a round hole.
Have you seen the manuscript they signed?
January 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Have you seen the manuscript they signed?
1/ If there was a deception then it manifests in the FF as the previous title pages don't amount to such. So quoting the deception to prove it's genuine doesn't work. Of course that's a hollow argument if you don't think there was.
January 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
1/ If there was a deception then it manifests in the FF as the previous title pages don't amount to such. So quoting the deception to prove it's genuine doesn't work. Of course that's a hollow argument if you don't think there was.
Of course it is, the Folio was designed with the express intent of making people believe William Shakespeare was the author.
January 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Of course it is, the Folio was designed with the express intent of making people believe William Shakespeare was the author.
George Steevens pointed to the similarity between a passage in the Induction to Bartholomew Fair and another passage in the address ‘To the Great Variety of Readers’. ‘Perhaps Old Ben was the author of the Players’ Preface’, he wrote, ‘and, in the instance before us, has borrowed from himself’.
January 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
George Steevens pointed to the similarity between a passage in the Induction to Bartholomew Fair and another passage in the address ‘To the Great Variety of Readers’. ‘Perhaps Old Ben was the author of the Players’ Preface’, he wrote, ‘and, in the instance before us, has borrowed from himself’.
‘One thing is certain’, Walter Greg concluded, ‘whoever wrote the address – and we may fairly assume that the epistle came from the same pen – if it was not Jonson himself, was a close student of his works’
January 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
‘One thing is certain’, Walter Greg concluded, ‘whoever wrote the address – and we may fairly assume that the epistle came from the same pen – if it was not Jonson himself, was a close student of his works’
It's disputed that the folio dedication is actually by Hemmings and Condell.
Prose Contributions to Shakespeare’s First Folio | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson search.app/8HPi8x8LL9pY...
Prose Contributions to Shakespeare’s First Folio | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson search.app/8HPi8x8LL9pY...
Prose Contributions to Shakespeare’s First Folio
| The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson
search.app
January 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's disputed that the folio dedication is actually by Hemmings and Condell.
Prose Contributions to Shakespeare’s First Folio | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson search.app/8HPi8x8LL9pY...
Prose Contributions to Shakespeare’s First Folio | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson search.app/8HPi8x8LL9pY...
Quoting the First Folio as proof of William Shakespeare’s authorship is completely missing the point of the authorship question which only becomes manifest with the publication of the First Folio.
January 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Quoting the First Folio as proof of William Shakespeare’s authorship is completely missing the point of the authorship question which only becomes manifest with the publication of the First Folio.