http://60-minutes.bloggingshakespeare.com/
Requires (easily done) registering under your e-mail address to hear the .mp3 files of 60 scholars answering FAQ-style questions about Shakespeare and evidence in favor of the Stratfordian view. Also a bonus question answered by Prince Charles.
"I don't deduce, I observe."
Do you? To use the term "Stratfordian" is to perpetuate a stupid non-debate. It's a bit like saying "the spherical point of view" when referring to the shape of our planet.
Anyway, referencing a Birthplace Trust site doesn't do your cause any good. That's the entity with the most obviously vested interest in silencing speculative, insecure, class-obsessed, half-educated, aspirational snobs.
I don't consider the term Stratfordian to be the least bit insulting, nor did I mean it that way. (BTW, considering that our planet is not, in fact, perfectly spherical, I'd say you've chosen a poor example.)
The website I referenced is highly informative, and ought to be of interest to anybody who would like to know more about Shakespeare, regardless of the prospective reader's opinions, or lack thereof, on the authorship question. "Highly informative and interesting" and "having a vested interest" aren't the least bit mutually exclusive, after all. And "having a vested interest" and "having an illegitimate ulterior motive" aren't exactly mutually inclusive.
"I don't deduce, I observe."
No one said anything was perfectly anything, or that anything was mutually exclusive. You're arguing with yourself, poorly.
There is no authorship question. Hence, trying to answer it is only interesting to fools.
You're really the life of the party, aren't you? A little ray of sunshine in the lives of all you meet?
"I don't deduce, I observe."
No one could have imagined that these plays and poems would still have any relevance--it's a kind of joke of chance or fate. But I wonder what the future will think of speculative snobs like Emmerich and Rylance? Will self-loathing DNA coils from Mars wind themselves around martini glasses in the year 3369 and express their class envy by insisting that an asteroid from a prestigious belt in Galaxy Xc-69 really wrote Shakespeare as dinosaur amoebas looked on, memorizing lines? It's hard to say, but thank God for entertainment.
shareNext thing we will have "Substantive proof" that the world is round...since the Oxfordians have the same amount of creditbility as the Flat Earthers.
shareThank you, this was fascinating.
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