[ClearCase_guy]

I have a vague recollection of an old joke in which a scholar asserts that Shakespeare’s plays were not actually written by Shakespeare, but by another man with the same name.

[Drawsing]

I have a vague recollection of an old joke in which a scholar asserts that Shakespeare’s plays were not actually written by Shakespeare, but by another man with the same name.

Yeah. Same thing with happened with the works of Homer.

[raynearhood]

So, Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays? Shakespeare did? Amazing!

I guess it would make sense, then, that the Essene’s weren’t a Jewish sect founded by dissident priests. Instead they were a Jewish sect founded by dissident priests. Scholarship astounds me!

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[SJackson]

I have a vague recollection of an old joke in which a scholar asserts that Shakespeare’s plays were not actually written by Shakespeare, but by another man with the same name.

Joke, heck, all kinds of speculation about that, including Amelia Bassano Lanier, a Marrano poet from Venice who was the first woman to publish a book of poetry in England. Also rumored to have shared a bed with William and another of the possible "real" Shakespeares, Edward de Vere I believe. Conspiracies aside, she may well have been a source of information both about Venice, Bill was never there, and Jews, Bill never met one, Amelia was as close as it got. Did I mention she might have been black? I love conspiracies, but sometimes the factual history is just as interesting.