Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-04 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/03/2001 6:20:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Interesting although it raises a valid question: How can you, a denier of Shakespeare's authorship, profess to know that the youthful dross attributed to Willy IS his? Perhaps a later

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Yardbird
-Caveat Lector- > Of course there's also the theory that that Dr. John Dee took time off from >translating the Necronomicon to pen the plays. Laugh if you want, there was an >oddball American millionaire (I forget his name, does anyone else know?) who was >paying various mathematicians in the

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Johannes Schmidt IV
-Caveat Lector- Of course there's also the theory that that Dr. John Dee took time off from translating the Necronomicon to pen the plays. Laugh if you want, there was an oddball American millionaire (I forget his name, does anyone else know?) who was paying various mathematicians in the 1930s

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Johannes Schmidt IV
-Caveat Lector- I think it was really Queen Elizabeth (the first!) who wrote all those plays. But because women authors couldn't publish back then she ordered one of her circle (Marlowe? Bacon?) to publish them for her. Just my 2c worth (hope ihaven't gotten my timelines mixed up and made a fo

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Yardbird
-Caveat Lector- > That's not it. I took a poetry course once and they gave us one of > Shakespeare's writings (verified to be his own) written when he was eighteen. > No one could improve so much. It was horrible, stupid and without any > insight into any human condition. Anyone whose sex lif

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/03/2001 3:22:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Shakespeare appears such an illusory personage is that, like Marlowe before him, he was just possibly an agent for the Elizabethan court. The man, Shakespeare, is far more intriguing th

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Yardbird
-Caveat Lector- No...the simple answer is that the author of Shakespeare's plays was in fact Shakespeare. It would be nice if there were a conspiracy behind the Shakespearian canon; however, no one who advocates some mysterious alternative author/authors has ever really produced any tenable expla

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Tenorlove
-Caveat Lector- --- William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um...I think it was Sir Francis Bacon actually... Someone in my high school drama class came up with Sir Philip Sidney Maybe it was a combination of all of the above? Tenorlove ___

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread William Shannon
In a message dated 3/3/01 10:59:01 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but it doesn't matter what Shakespeare was using.  The work he gets credit for was done by Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford.   Um...I think it was Sir Francis Bacon actually... Bill.

Re: [CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-03 Thread Prudence L. Kuhn
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 03/02/2001 1:41:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Analysis of Shakespeare's Pipes Finds Residue of cocaine, myristic acid, tobacco, and hints of marijuana. Dr. Francis Thackeray, a paleontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria h

[CTRL] FW: [CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs

2001-03-01 Thread Nessie
-Caveat Lector- -Original Message- From: Alchemind Society Sent: Thu 3/1/2001 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:[CogLib] Shakespeare on Drugs Analysis of Shakespeare's Pipes Finds Residue of cocaine, myristic acid, tobacco, and hints of marijuana. Dr. Francis Tha