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johnny9fingers) wrote2010-03-20 11:46 am
johnny9fingers) wrote2010-03-20 11:46 am
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Earl of Oxford. Bah! Humbug.
Slightly hung-over at breakfast this morning whereupon reading my newspaper I stumbled across this rather good review of James Shapiro's new book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare.
Given that the various Oxfordian theories are going to get a new airing with the development of Roland Emmerich's movie Anonymous, I can understand some folk needing to get their rebuttals in early.
Nothing pleases like 400 year old conspiracy theories. It shows just how these things carry through the ages: and whenever they are newly uncovered, they infect new generations. One might almost think that such schema had a life of their own, replicating the debate across the centuries. It's almost like politics.
Given that the various Oxfordian theories are going to get a new airing with the development of Roland Emmerich's movie Anonymous, I can understand some folk needing to get their rebuttals in early.
Nothing pleases like 400 year old conspiracy theories. It shows just how these things carry through the ages: and whenever they are newly uncovered, they infect new generations. One might almost think that such schema had a life of their own, replicating the debate across the centuries. It's almost like politics.