Comments on: COUNTDOWN: 93 DAYS

By: sb

sb — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:18:41 +0000

Sullivan @ #26…my point exactly…since the Avon man did not serve, whoever wrote it must have…

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:02:48 +0000

Not military tactics and strategy, but military life: what inspires and transpires within a unit. Not just the St Crispian’s Day speech, but the heavy mantle of leadership (”Steel my Soldiers’ hearts”) the character of Captain Fluellan, and the indescribably accurate adn frank discussion by Bates, Court and Williams with the King incognito.

Even the comic relief of the Eastcheap gang (Nym, Pistol, Bardolph) shows a deep understanding of the highs and lows of the military life.

Falstaff? I would have to devote an entire chapter.

In this soldier’s mind at least, he served.

By: sb

sb — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:38:17 +0000

I’m saying its more likely that any one of several other individuals wrote the Shakespeare canon than the man from Avon…that one who sued a neighbor for a few shillings (about $80.00 today), was prosecuted for hoarding and price-gouging grain, left his wife his second best bed and no written material of any form, not even a single book (while Ben Jonson…a somewhat lesser light, left an entire library), did not have the remarkable talent to pen the finest works of the last millenium…just my take on an unanswerable question…

By: now_a_hoo

now_a_hoo — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:01:13 +0000

Anyway, FOOTBALL WOOOOOOOOOO

By: now_a_hoo

now_a_hoo — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:49 +0000

Here’s the thing about your whole argument: you’re suggesting that it’s more likely that a man faked his death and pretended to be his contemporary, than it is that someone of remarkable talent was able to understand the world around him with little formal education.

So: A. Sorkin’s education revolved entirely around the theatre (just like Shakespeare’s); did he not write the West Wing? Of course he wrote the West Wing; he just had help from Dee Dee Meyers and Marlin Fitzwater. Shakespeare had help, too: he lived in one of the most vibrant cities in the world, and was deeply involved with the “television” of the era: theatre.

By: sb

sb — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:38:57 +0000

now-a-hoo @#20…I still see smoke…an understanding of the intricacies of a courtly life, together with a working knowledge of law, extensive description of military strategy and tactics as well as providing accurate descriptions of various locations in Denmark, Italy and France while never leaving the island…a large body of knowledge for one of common upbringing and experience working on the stage.

The Avon man’s education is undocumented and appears fairly sparse, however Marlowe’s and deVere’s and Stanley’s are all well documented despite the slipshod record keeping of the era, and Marlowe’s academic record was so exceptional that even with his common background he obtained entry to the finest salons of the day.

As for Marlowe’s death, there are enough questions and irregularities about that to fill a book, so, again…plenty of smoke and no validation coming from any party of interest. We all choose sides and toss out our rationales and believe as we wish.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:49:31 +0000

Whoever he was, he wrote the finest plays in the english language.

And he served in the military. No one who could write Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) and especially Henry V could have learned that stuff listening to veterans in a pub.

Denzel Washington also had a great bit part in the movie as the prince, although Keanu Reaves was beyond laughable as his brother.

By: now_a_hoo

now_a_hoo — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:49:04 +0000

There’s really very little smoke here. Oxford’s public poetry was crap. Marlow died in 1593, and the stuff he wrote sounds very different from Shakespeare. And to reiterate, he died in 1593.

By: Ryno

Ryno — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:27:06 +0000

I had thought “noting” was also used as a term for eavesdropping.

By: sb

sb — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:44:48 +0000

Holly @#14…yeah, I like Marlowe’s claim over both the Earl of Oxford (de Vere) and Bacon’s.

now-a-hoo @#11, there might not have been a standardized attempt at spelling in that era but the four actually executed docs by the avon man (will and other legal docs) never included a fully spelled out “Shakespeare”, while everything published within six years of his death was certainly consistent and standardized…and why is it that all of those who lauded “Shakespeare”, (not “Shaksper/Shaxper”) never mentioned him while he was alive…where there’s smoke there’s fire…not that any of it can be proven…

By: jakldawg

jakldawg — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:35:59 +0000

#13 Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
to sum up: Purity of Essence= SEC Speed!

By: VandyJ

VandyJ — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:54:12 +0000

Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, Oswald shot JFK all by himself, a weather balloon crashed at Roswell, Alabama didn’t really win the MNC in 1941, and I do not have a chance with either Emma Thompson or Kate Beckinsale from that movie.

The truth is a son of a bitch.

by the way, “O that I had been writ down an ass!” is going on my tombstone.

By: shovel pass

shovel pass — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:37:03 +0000

@13

You mean its not?

There are some folks in West Virginia who would like a word with you.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:48:30 +0000

Oh, snap, we ’bout to bust out the Marlowe!

By: now_a_hoo

now_a_hoo — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:46:36 +0000

I know this is an SEC blog, but I can’t believe there’s two people here who didn’t think he wrote the damned plays.
What’s next? Comments on how flouridation is a communist plot to corrupt the purity of our bodily fluids?