[lbo-talk] more on the econ Nobel

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> >"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
> >> 
> >> Why do we say Shakespeare wrote the plays when it was
> really someone else
> >> using the name Shakespeare?
> >>
> >
> >You are, I hope, joking?
> >
> >Carrol
> >___________________________________
> 
> "The Authorship Problem" rears its ugly head on LBO?  Remarkable.  In
> addition to Ms. Price's volume, John Michel's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?"
> is an excellent and elegant treatment of this controversy.  It's all
> nonsense, of course: the man from Stratford wrote the plays.
> 
> Mark Bennett

How do we know this?

British Shakespeare scholar and former university lecturer Brenda James and university historian William 
Rubinstein propose that the real Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville, an English courtier and diplomat.

I am rather agnostic on the topic but if there were clear evidence for authorship the multitude of scholarly 
works claiming to have "found" the true author probably wouldn't exist.

It is, at this late date, unknowable unless some new heavyweight evidence presents itself.

Whichever author you choose  there is some aspect of faith to the selection.

John Thornton