Who Wrote Shakespeare?

ABC (Australia) ^ | Monday, June 7, 2010 | Mark Colvin

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[mdmathis6]

Because he stays thirsty...my friend! :}

[arthurus]

Troupe.

[G Larry]

I'll go with Professor Emeritus, David Allen White, who taught Shakespeare to Naval Cadets for 30 years.
He says Shakespeare is Shakespeare and there was no alternate author.

[arthurus]

I followed the arguments for each of the contestants and entertained , in turn, the possibilities that each must be the real Shakespeare but there was always some flaw to be glossed over by the proponents that left me skeptical. The simplest argument for Copernicus before scientific proof, applies here, too. The simplest explanation that takes care of all the variables is most likely the real one.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Ordinarily I don’t go for history-mystery stuff, but the Oxfordians make a great case.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[weps4ret]

Barry Obama, who had it all written by William Ayers.

So simple even a caveman can see it.

Gunner

[WinOne4TheGipper]

bump

[eleni121]

It is fascinating to consider but even more interesting is the great Leo Tolstoy’s belief that Shakespeare is less than relevant ...and worse anyway...highly recommended.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yJYfDNPQ7vEC

[allmendream]

He had his father John Shakespeare take the name for the same reason, a man who was a glover?

If that is your best argument I find it unresearched and unpersuasive.

He was born and baptized with that name, long before he was ever involved in the theater.

[bannie]

Poems were important to authors back then. Plays...not so much.

[nickcarraway]

Tolstoy was unquestionably a great writer, but he could also be a grade A nutball on a lot of issues. Also, he was nowhere near as good as Dostoevsky.

[Borges]

By any aesthetic metric Tolstoy was a far greater artist than Dostoevsky who had a weakness for melodrama and thin characters not to mention a severe lack of descriptive prose. That said, at the end of his life, Tolstoy was a religious kook who dismissed most Western Art.

[TheOldLady]

"Who Wrote Shakespeare?"

Well, we'll never really know for certain.

A man hearing a theory knows the answer. A man hearing many theories is never sure.

[Grimmy]

“How many other stereotypes have you developed during your life?”

I know you didn’t ask me that question, but it’s an interesting one so I’ma gonna answer it too.

I’ve got 3 basic stereotypes, no particular order below:
1. hippie.
2. Late sipping liberal.
3. USMC Infantryman.

How many you got?

[dmz]

Why does the most interesting man in the world look and sound like a Mexican illegal alien?”

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They need you in Arizona, big time. You can tell the legal status of an immigrant by look and sound.

How do you do it?

[twister881]

A bunch.

[twister881]

It’s a gift.

[wildbill]

Author James Shapiro (CC77) is the Larry Miller Professorof English and has been teaching the core curriculum course on Shakespeare for many years.

You might want to send a Columbia ping.