Another reply to a professional doubter…

…ok i admit i’m an idiot. I can’t help myself. It’s funny those on my side of the fence shake their heads and say why waste your time? and those on the other shake their gory locks and shudder at how wrong we all are.
I know where i stand

Hi Howard,

I see you follow these articles and print the same refutations to each.

The ad hominem attacks are based on the increasing ad hominem attacks the conspiracists/cover-upists, what you will, apply to the Stratford man. Whom you all deny an inner life. You focus on the lack of historical record and the consequent impossibility of him ever being able to be Shakespeare.

There will be no collapse of the Stratford monument until you actually arrive with factual evidence any historian of any culture will accept. Your twisting of the historical record and psychological readings will only convince those that doubt.

As Shapiro has shown in his book there is historically no reason for doubt. I have read Diana Price’s book and Mark Anderson’s book and both are filled with the same speculation as fills the Shakespeare biographies you so despise.

Once again the traditional authorship is not collapsing, it is being increasingly attacked by people like yourself, who now have access to a forum (the internet)in which they can attack it. That doesn’t prove your case.

My guy, the Stratford guy, is and remains the ‘author’ until you can conclusively prove otherwise.

Besides the fact that it doesn’t change the writing one little bit. personally I don’t like writing that i have to analyse through the lens of one man’s experience. It defeats the purpose of imagination.

Is Freud’s theory based on his life? Is Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn based on a real boy Twain/Clements knew?

You can doubt all you want but it doesn’t change the historical record until you come up with a better theory than the one you have. Besides that the differences in Oxfordian approaches plus the 50-60-100 other contenders mean i could spend a lifetime examining them all and have no time to read Shakespeare.

Kinda like the teachers in England who have to spend so much time teaching theory and shakespeare that their students never read the plays except through the lens of theory.

I have a direct relationship with Shakespeare by reading and performing his plays. It doesn’t matter to me that you think someone else wrote them. I don’t buy your theory. Why are you so concerned?

Go and convince Scientologists that psychiatry is a good thing. Or racists that all men are equal. We differ in opinion and that after reading ALL the available facts. I’m not being coerced to write this. I formed my own opinion and now it’s time for your reply.

btw great article!