Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The Hidden Life is Best Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:46:05 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20240423a@crcomp.net> <20240423c@crcomp.net> <20240425b@crcomp.net> <20240426a@crcomp.net> X-Trace: individual.net wSKxdC+79udGSH8IRrIMdwVE/t9wWprfXhT29XXHM2pq2nPpGq X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:xyChlnUp0M6onG2TnD6pvt+LBc0= sha256:svFvHmFSoac4V2kgnpExkKigdlpf6AW940nwEp4bALo= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 1920 In article , John Savard wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:53:20 -0000 (UTC), Don wrote: > > >Widely travelled, he had first hand > >knowledge of the settings used in his plays. > > The only alternat authorship theory for the plays of Sakespeare that > isn't utterly ludicrous on its face is the one crediting Edward de > Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, for them. > > Not that this theory is necessarily true either, but it's the only one > with even the slightest bit of plausibility. > Except for the minor, very minor, detail that he died in June 1604 (several years before the dates several Shakespearean plays premiered). -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com