Mark Bennett wrote:
>Well, there really isn't an abundance of scholarly work questioning
>Shakespeare's authorship. Most of the "controversy" is the result the
>speculations by amateurs and enthusiasts: some of it ingenious, to be
>sure, but much of it crazed.
>
Here, here! The Bacon conjectures were particularly irksome since Bacon
had not an ounce of insight or imagination and could as well have
written King Lear as I could. But all the conjectures were odious,
especially since most were based on the assumption that a man of humble
origins could not have produced this great body of literature. The case
to be proved is rather the opposite since the only genius aristocrat I
can think of is Tolstoy and the seventeenth century was littered with
great men of humble origins: Ben Johnson and John Donne to name just two.
Joanna