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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: The Hidden Life is Best
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:46:05 -0700
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In article <fuvn2jd9ip00hpssed28ksln3telgqu5dk@4ax.com>,
 John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:53:20 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> 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).

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