tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post9080763810408054917..comments2024-03-29T07:19:50.366-07:00Comments on Strange Company: The First Great Shakespeare SkepticUndinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-67621264418550473922015-07-05T04:58:39.593-07:002015-07-05T04:58:39.593-07:00I had never heard of it until I saw your comment. ...I had never heard of it until I saw your comment. Dang, but that looks like an unheralded classic.Undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214242522330278662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-18533287265449876842015-07-04T23:28:24.481-07:002015-07-04T23:28:24.481-07:00But have you read "Man v' Ape in the play...But have you read "Man v' Ape in the play of Ear-Ce-Rammed"?<br /><br />https://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/samuels.htmlEdwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15308267340806590272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-42442901175094092272015-06-30T12:16:21.928-07:002015-06-30T12:16:21.928-07:00So-called "Dame Schools", which came lat...So-called "Dame Schools", which came later, were only for the so-called 3-R's, the very basics of running a business. Generally people still had to seek out scriveners, scribes, etc. for their services. To go to school was a really big thing. It is too bad that She did not know that. I still remember reading Pepys while I was an undergraduate and his statements of grief surrounding the death of his 7 year-old son who used to converse with him in Latin in the evening. Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-9694926675238534112015-06-30T08:00:57.684-07:002015-06-30T08:00:57.684-07:00This response is interesting in itself. The term &...This response is interesting in itself. The term 'renaissance man' didn't come about due to living in the era but in being characteristic of it. When people learned then, they learned a lot.John Bellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946140614088069665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-84215949947309499462015-06-29T11:13:47.958-07:002015-06-29T11:13:47.958-07:00This was very interesting. When I was an undergra...This was very interesting. When I was an undergraduate so many years ago I took a year long course in Shakespeare's plays and another year long course in the Intellectual History of the Renaissance. In my opinion, I do believe that Shakespeare alone could be the author of his poetry and plays. Education was not as elementary as Miss Bacon imagined it would be. First, Shakespeare's family had to PAY for it. It was not free. They wanted him to do better in life. He learned Rhetoric, Maths, Geometry, Latin, Geography, etc. <br /> (these were the Liberal Arts). University would have been more of the same along with Philosophy and Greek. He did not attend University. Most people did not, actually, just clergy, lawyers, etc. I hope I have dispelled some of the shadows from that time in history for you.Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7493712084606110971.post-72290660672849242922015-06-29T10:51:53.346-07:002015-06-29T10:51:53.346-07:00It's a sad tale - worthy of a Shakespeare trag...It's a sad tale - worthy of a Shakespeare tragedy, really. There was nothing wrong with trying to find internal evidence for her theory in the plays - Elizabethans and Jacobeans were fond of game-like 'devices' - but they would always remain nothing more than clues. She needed evidence and though she was not a scholar, she was visionary. If she had put more research into her theory - and more courage into her research - she may not have been proved right, but she may have been respected enough to save her sanity.John Bellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946140614088069665noreply@blogger.com