WAB
Veteran Member
Hola Swammi,
If you mean me, I was banned from the ShakesVere group. I made all of three posts there, the last one quite critical of Oxford's acknowledged poems. I have tried to get to the group, but it's as if it disappeared. I will not pursue trying to get back in, but I am nonetheless still compelled to follow the bread crumbs you and T.G.G.M. have dropped.
I find it all quite fascinating, and believe me, if and when I am ever fairly certain of the Duke's authorship (I do believe that it is certainly possible that Oxford wrote Shakespeare; and I agree, and have agreed all throughout, that there is significant reason, if not through actual, concrete, forensic evidence, then in tons of speculative and circumstantial evidence, to doubt the authorship of TSM.
Just today, as I was looking to see if I could locate a William Peter Blatty book - since I have read the Exorcist trilogy (Exorcist, Legend, and Dimiter) with extreme pleasure, and since The Exorcist is my favorite film, which I have watched probably 50 times, I decided to see if I could now afford one of his other novels.
I see at Wikipedia that Blatty wrote a comic novel called I, Billy Shakespeare, and that he was engaged as a comic writer at the beginning of his career! Of all the ironic things, but not exactly a surprise, since his books contain a certain degree of comedy - especially in his Lt Detective Kinderman character, as played in the first film by the incredibly talented and almost forgotten Lee J. Cobb.
I am going to buy the book, if it is available somewhere as a downloadable file, and I will offer my review of it when I'm finished.The narrative treats of the authorship question, according to the page, which is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Billy_Shakespeare
If you mean me, I was banned from the ShakesVere group. I made all of three posts there, the last one quite critical of Oxford's acknowledged poems. I have tried to get to the group, but it's as if it disappeared. I will not pursue trying to get back in, but I am nonetheless still compelled to follow the bread crumbs you and T.G.G.M. have dropped.
I find it all quite fascinating, and believe me, if and when I am ever fairly certain of the Duke's authorship (I do believe that it is certainly possible that Oxford wrote Shakespeare; and I agree, and have agreed all throughout, that there is significant reason, if not through actual, concrete, forensic evidence, then in tons of speculative and circumstantial evidence, to doubt the authorship of TSM.
Just today, as I was looking to see if I could locate a William Peter Blatty book - since I have read the Exorcist trilogy (Exorcist, Legend, and Dimiter) with extreme pleasure, and since The Exorcist is my favorite film, which I have watched probably 50 times, I decided to see if I could now afford one of his other novels.
I see at Wikipedia that Blatty wrote a comic novel called I, Billy Shakespeare, and that he was engaged as a comic writer at the beginning of his career! Of all the ironic things, but not exactly a surprise, since his books contain a certain degree of comedy - especially in his Lt Detective Kinderman character, as played in the first film by the incredibly talented and almost forgotten Lee J. Cobb.
I am going to buy the book, if it is available somewhere as a downloadable file, and I will offer my review of it when I'm finished.The narrative treats of the authorship question, according to the page, which is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Billy_Shakespeare