More evidence Shakespeare was Shakespeare

"You are wrong . . . scientific theory and not a theory . . . scientific evidence . . . " I am aware of the old-fashioned (since the 18th century) religious belief that science = truth and reality. Please try to imagine that you are replacing one form of divinity with another. Just try. No one will hold his breath.

I didn't erect the "strawman"--Roland Barthes did.

Every time I see anyone on this "message" "board" suggest that Shax stooped to hoard grain, evade taxes--essentially, that everything he did was in the service of making money--Bardolators leap to his defense. If there were something to gain by providing you "evidence" of this, I'd do it. I'm glad you think everyone is liberated from the Romantic vision of the poet; I fear you're overestimating the Shax loving crowd.

It's hard to tell but I think he's warming up to claim that Shakespeare/De Vere is the author of Prime Suspect.

Law Enforcement.

The portfolio, I think, can be broken into three catagories;
The sonets
The comedies
The tragedies

The tragedies tend to vest themselves in emotional expressions of crime. I don't think a barely literate Shakespeare had the kind of education needed to write the plays, and that DeVere was motivated through artistic inspiration combined with being asked to "stage crimes" for the people to see. Possibly for the Queen's own security apparatus.

It's an old police tactic where you stage a crime or act or something related to some incident being investigated, and the suspect is so wrought with nervous tension that he (or she) lets their nerves get the best of them by thinking that "they know", meaning that they've been found out.

The comedies, one could say, were crimes against the heart, so to speak. And so the themes of betrayal and hidden passion are a kind of social crime.

My perspective is that these tactics may have been imported at some point after the founding of the nation. Or were in use, but fell by the way side, and then reintroduced.

I mean Hamlet himself actually performed this very tactic in his mini-play within the play proper. That's how it works. And I think that's how a lot of the Tragedies in the portfolio were meant to function.

Therefore, just thinking about it as I write this post, giving the authorship to Shakespeare may have been a security measure to protect DeVere.

... yeah, that makes more sense than anything else.

Maybe I'll write a book on the subject some day, and then you all can argue, gripe and moan about it when a movie's made.