A huge bombard of sack

[nineweaving]

sovay has asked for a roundup of all the scattered Anonymous reviews, like daggletailed sheep to the dip.

Here they are, a fanfaronade for Oxenford:

"We all, at one point or another, indulge fantasies that make the world
seem more dangerous, more glamorous and, simultaneously, much more
simple than it actually is. But then most of us grow up. Or put down

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[kalimac]

That touches on a good point. Sure, it's hard to believe that a glover's son wrote those plays. They're so magnificent that it's hard to believe that anybody wrote them. The only proof we have that they were written at all is ... there they are, so somebody did. (C.S. Lewis pointed out that if Hamlet vanished and all we had were the criticism of it, it'd be impossible to figure out from the varying and contradictory criticisms what the play could possibly be like.) Whoever wrote Shakespeare broke all the normal rules of human capacity, so any speculations about what he had to have known or done are useless.

[nineweaving]

Truly said.

As I wrote elsewhere, anti-Stratfordians think Shakespeare was made. They have a particular loathing for the idea that he happened, sprang up and flourished in the ground of the theatre.

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[ron_drummond]

Oh, splendidly said, thank you! You captured my own thoughts, and others I hadn't, eloquently, so much so that I may end up having to quote you in print.

[nineweaving]

Many thanks! An excellent, gracefully written piece (as one would expect from Schama), which I know I read but foolishly neglected to link.

Nine

[sovay]

Simon Schama at the Daily Beast

I didn't realize Simon Schama wrote movie reviews. Cool.

[nineweaving]

I think this film has rallied scholars, called them out like Arthur and his sleeping knights.

Nine

[ron_drummond]

Schama's review almost makes up for the fact that the two-word phrase "William Shakespeare" never once passes his lips in the entirety of his fifteen-hour documentary A History of England: not once.

[nineweaving]

{sigh}

That's just wrong. He largely helped create England's sense of herself. (Not in his time so much, but after Bardolatry began.)

Nine