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Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

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From: Panu
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48
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On Mar 3, 11:32 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 3:08 pm, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 2, 3:06 pm, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@bluemail.ch> wrote:
>
> > > If rating had been possible in the Elizabethean Age
> > > we wouldn't know of 'Shakespeare' today: also he
> > > would have been killrated.
>
> > Come on, you are no Shakespeare. Shakespeare was, I understand, an
> > esteemed dramaticist in his own age,
>
> Whence such an "understanding"? What evidence do you have that he was
> valued above all other dramatists of his time?

I don't. I merely extrapolate from the fact that there is the cult. I
take it that he played his dramas back when he lived, and that some
people came and watched.

>
> > which was probably quite merited.
>
> "Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself."

Merited in the sense that Star Trek, for example, merits to be watched
by people who are bored enough to watch it. That does not make Star
Trek great art, but it does make it comparable with what Shakespeare's
plays were for contemporary public - decent entertainment to kill your
boredom with.
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Subject: Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
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