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Article #5185Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:53
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:53
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On Mar 1, 1:50 pm, Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote: > Christopher Culver wrote: > > Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> writes: > >> You know perfectly well that Shakespeare is just a minor, obscure > >> dramatist from the dark dungeons of literary history writing in an > >> English which is only partly intelligible to the speakers of the > >> modern language. If he weren't force-fed to millions of poor > >> schoolchildren in that benighted part of the world inhabited by > >> monolingual speakers of English, he would already have been consigned, > >> if not to merciful oblivion, so at least to the limbo that is the fate > >> of all linguistically and culturally uninteresting writers meriting > >> only second-rate academic interest. > > > That's a bizarre claim, Panu, as interest in Shakespeare extends far > > outside the English-speaking world. Russian poets have long looked to > > Shakespeare for inspiration. > > Even Klingons claim him as their own. But Klingons were written by Americans, victims of the cult, so their taste is suspect.
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