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

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From: Panu
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:16
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On Mar 1, 6:58 pm, Christopher Culver <crcul...@christopherculver.com>
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.

He has been translated by poets far superior to himself.
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Subject: Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
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