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Experts plan to exhume Shakespeare's body
icBirmingham ^ | Nov 1, 2005 | Name not given

Posted on 11/02/2005 7:30:05 PM PST by SpringheelJack

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The stated reasons for this are fraudulent, IMO. There's not one shred of evidence Shakespeare was murdered by anybody, least of all his son-in-law, and until now I'd never heard anyone suggest such a thing. Why not admit the real reason? They just think it'd be exciting to ogle Shakespeare's dead body.
1 posted on 11/02/2005 7:30:06 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: SpringheelJack

And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.


2 posted on 11/02/2005 7:32:39 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker!)
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To: SpringheelJack

Idle curiosity.


3 posted on 11/02/2005 7:32:43 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: SpringheelJack; MadIvan; blam

BTTT


4 posted on 11/02/2005 7:32:56 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SpringheelJack

Epitaph on Himself
William Shakespeare


Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosèd here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.


5 posted on 11/02/2005 7:34:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: bnelson44

"Alas, poor Will! I knew him, Horatio. . . ."

6 posted on 11/02/2005 7:42:44 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (". . , a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.")
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To: SpringheelJack

I have it on good authority that the son-in-law did not murder Shakespeare but did in fact kill Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.


7 posted on 11/02/2005 7:45:24 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: SpringheelJack

Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?


9 posted on 11/02/2005 7:49:38 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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To: SpringheelJack

Bacon

No it's Beggin Strips


10 posted on 11/02/2005 7:50:07 PM PST by joesnuffy
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To: SpringheelJack
"He has not so much brain as earwax."
11 posted on 11/02/2005 7:51:02 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?

Then the case is altered, of course.

12 posted on 11/02/2005 7:51:25 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: joesnuffy

Not strips, rashers.


13 posted on 11/02/2005 7:51:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SpringheelJack

>>The stated reasons for this are fraudulent, IMO.

Yep, cherchez la $$$. Shakespeare was old by the standards of his time, his handwriting looked more than a little wobbly, and they say he'd been out whooping it up just before he died. All of which is way more evidence than the murder theory offers.

His son-in-law was a doctor, no? Married to Shakespeare's apparently illiterate daughter. Interesting family. :)


14 posted on 11/02/2005 7:55:27 PM PST by Graymatter
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"Wow- what if they find Ben Jonson's body instead?"

What??!! Isn't he still alive??


15 posted on 11/02/2005 7:56:10 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: SpringheelJack

let him - he would deserve whatever he got. (the american)

Hence the title "The Ugly American" rises again.


16 posted on 11/02/2005 7:59:29 PM PST by soltice
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To: decal
" What??!! Isn't he still alive??"

Yeah, but he hasn't written a decent comedy since he started taking steroids.

17 posted on 11/02/2005 8:04:38 PM PST by fat city ("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
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"Yeah, but he hasn't written a decent comedy since he started taking steroids."

And to think it all started when he wrote "The Alchemist"...
18 posted on 11/02/2005 8:07:24 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: SpringheelJack

Out damned spot!


19 posted on 11/02/2005 8:08:50 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: SpringheelJack

Let me guess, when they finish the experiments on Shakespeares body, they will conclude that he was really a black, gay woman.


20 posted on 11/02/2005 8:08:56 PM PST by rbg81
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