[lbo-talk] Shakespeare's 457th birthday

[Jerry Monaco]

On 4/12/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > The Earl of Oxford died in 1604. Who wrote Hamlet,
> > MacBeth, Lear, Othello, Anthony & Cleopatra, Winter's
> > Tale, Measure for Measure, All's Well, 12th Night, and
> > The Tempest, all of which are later?
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> There is no real debate over Shakespeare's authenticity. If anyone one
> wants to try a _really_ hard case for proving attribution, try to prove
> that Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels. He did, but the hard evidence for
> his doing so is much flimsier than the hard evidence for Shakespeare
> writing The Plays.
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> Carrol

Since it is also Nabokov's birthday, I wonder if anyone would like to argue
that the author of "Pale Fire" ( a  Shakespearean reference ) has never been
revealed.
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