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AnonymousUser-5 AnonymousUser-5

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"Well, strike me up a bloomin' gum tree !"---as Dennis Hoey's Inspector Lestrade would've said. Reckon it'd be easier to use smoke signals (!)  PS, You can now email me (sent m' email address by PM). 

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PPS,  I don't get that anyhow. If I've sent you a private message you ought to be able to read it when you're logged in---& vice versa. Don't see why we should both be logged in at the same time.  
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Neither do I, but I struggle for an alternative explanation. 

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Well, as a Mr "William Shake-Speare" (whoever he was !) has it: All's Well That End's Well. PS, Thanks for the email.

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Norrette Moore

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The Stratfordian wrote the plays and sonnets.  (don't get me started...😉)

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Aye, perhaps. As John Mitchell summed up in his excellent book, Who Wrote Shakespeare? Plausible sounding cases can be made out for each of the main alternative authorship candidates, Bacon, Derby, Oxford, Rutland, Marlowe, but they can't can't all have been Shakespeare ! 

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To keep this on topic, here's the Chandos portrait of the man.  Another authenticity dispute. :-) I have books by James Shapiro, Stephen Greenblatt, both Open Uni Shakepeare course lecturers, plus Stanley Wells, Michael Wood, as well as Mark Rylance's point of view, which I'd hoped to use as part of the authenticity Masters that Brunel Uni once offered. Just as I signed up they withdrew the course.  Probably because of the number of Stratfordians signing up. ;-) So who painted Shakespeare?
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But soft what white from yonder painting shines? Or are we all being 'lead' white away from the original topic?
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Tony - just a whimsey, I think... Will it help if I s ay I have no doubt that the author of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets was - one W. Shakespeare.  If either Bacon or Lord Oxford or probably anyone else had written them, they would have trumpeted the fact.    I have a friend who can,  or anyway who could, recite the plays from memory, whereas I have to be satisfied with occasionally remembered lines and phrases.  I think he may have been frustrated in his ambition to play Ophelia....

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Actually, that is sure to be lead white on the collar, Tony. 🙂 If Maxine Peake can play Hamlet, no reason for banning a male Ophelia.  Actually thinking about the lead character, Robert, quite appropriate for his beau.
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All very interesting.  We all like a good whodunnit.  Odd that it was around 200 years after the bard died that these theories began, around the time he began to be lauded as the world’s greatest writer.  In his day, nobody doubted he was the author, nor was he described as the world’s greatest writer.  The ‘let’s cut the flowers down brigade’ had a field day.  Apparently there are round 80 pretenders, including several women.  The intellectuals (if that’s the word) don’t like a country bumpkin getting above himself.  Odd that a prime contender for the grand prize…Marlow…came from a similar background. I like a good conspiracy theory.  I like a good fairy story too.
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As an afterthought, I didn’t expect to get involved in a thread about lead white…not my thing…seldom use oils. But that’s forums for you, and why I like them.
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