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Panu wrote:
> On Feb 28, 9:01 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 28, 12:00 pm, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 28, 5:00 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> On Feb 28, 9:55 am, Panu <craoibhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 28, 3:47 pm, "Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Panu" wrote:
>>>>>>> Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
>>>>>>>> Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
>>>>>>> Who the hell is interested in Shakespeare anyway?
>>>>>> Rather more than those who are interested in Na'vi or Dnghe I suspect?
>>>>> I'm not talking about quantity, but quality. Besides, Shakespeare
>>>>> would not interest anyone if he wasn't so heavily subsidized.
>>>> What _are_ you talking about? (Both points.)
>>> 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.-
>> And of the crowds of Elizabethan playwrights, why is he the only one
>> whose works are regularly produced, even though they received no
>> special attention during his lifetime?
> 
> You tell me. The Shakespeare cult has been around for so long that it
> is self-sustaining by now. Everybody sees it as their duty to praise
> the Emperor's new clothes.

This is like the line, "The Odyssey wasn't written by Homer but by 
another man of that name." You're arguing that Shakespeare's work isn't 
beloved, and that the people who love his work are a "cult" and 
therefore something different.

How many figures of speech in common use today come from the works of 
any of Shakespeare's contemporaries?