<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carrol Cox</b> <<a href="mailto:cbcox@ilstu.edu">cbcox@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>andie nachgeborenen wrote:<br>><br>> The Earl of Oxford died in 1604. Who wrote Hamlet,<br>> MacBeth, Lear, Othello, Anthony & Cleopatra, Winter's<br>> Tale, Measure for Measure, All's Well, 12th Night, and
<br>> The Tempest, all of which are later?<br><br>There is no real debate over Shakespeare's authenticity. If anyone one<br>wants to try a _really_ hard case for proving attribution, try to prove<br>that Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels. He did, but the hard evidence for
<br>his doing so is much flimsier than the hard evidence for Shakespeare<br>writing The Plays.<br><br>Carrol</blockquote><div><br><br>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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