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

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From: Harlan Messinger
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:50

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Christopher Culver wrote:
> Panu <craoibhin66@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.

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