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

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From: elizabeth
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:45

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On 28 Feb, 07:47, Harlan Messinger
<hm.usenetremovert...@gavelcade.com> wrote:
> Obviously the works of "Shakespeare" were written by Christopher Marlowe
> because he is alluded to when Hamlet asks, "Do you think I meant country
> matters?" Country matters = CM = Christopher Marlowe.
>
> Even if these little treasures supposedly hidden among Shakespeare's
> works are genuine, some people ought to be introduced to the concept of
> the "shout-out".

Most Strat critics think that Hamlet is making
a bawdy pun -- "country matters" = "cuntry matters." There's another
bawdy pun . . . "It would cost you a groaning to take off my
edge" (3.2.249) and I think
there's two more.  At least one of them is essentially
literal, not punned.

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