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In a previous life, I used to edit a Renaissance journal. I don't really know owt about the period - I've seen a pile of Shakespeare, read a load more, taught it, upset the daughter of the heir to the throne of Bohemia by my interpretation of Hamlet, studied the period at A Level, did courses on Shakespeare and on Elizabethan lit in my degree, read and summarised loads of articles on the Sonnets (but probably never got paid for it as promised) and bullshitted my way through teaching the Elizabethan course. The editing job was to get the stuff online. Theoretically I still do it, but I've not heard from the new editors in an age.
Of course, my name and contact details are still there. Online.
The interwebs are like elephants.
(No, not the bit about being scared of mice.)
Every so often you get asked to do someone's homework for them. Or to publicise their conference. Or to give them reprint rights. Or to allow them to sell access to these free articles. Or...
... do I know of an online version of Thomas Bedingfield's English translation of "Cardanus' Comfort"?
OK, Google is your friend.
Published in the 1570s, with an epistle by the Earl of Oxford. Ah.
That man has form. A little more digging, and we find that CC is thought to be a source for Hamlet. H'mmm. I fear an Oxfordian is emailing me. CC is thought by some to be the book that Hamlet carries in one scene, therefore...
I have no time for such theories of authorship - beyond thinking that plays of the period were likely much more collaborative than they are now.
(And eny fule kno that the plays of so-called William Shakespeare were really written by Christopher Marlowe. Who staged his death and then hid under a pseudonym to throw the Elizabethan secret service off his trail. Or did Marlowe pretend to be Bacon?)
Oh, and the person who first suggested the Oxfordian theory was... J. Thomas Looney
(Although, alas, pronounced "loney". But you would, wouldn't you?)
Of course, my name and contact details are still there. Online.
The interwebs are like elephants.
(No, not the bit about being scared of mice.)
Every so often you get asked to do someone's homework for them. Or to publicise their conference. Or to give them reprint rights. Or to allow them to sell access to these free articles. Or...
... do I know of an online version of Thomas Bedingfield's English translation of "Cardanus' Comfort"?
OK, Google is your friend.
Published in the 1570s, with an epistle by the Earl of Oxford. Ah.
That man has form. A little more digging, and we find that CC is thought to be a source for Hamlet. H'mmm. I fear an Oxfordian is emailing me. CC is thought by some to be the book that Hamlet carries in one scene, therefore...
I have no time for such theories of authorship - beyond thinking that plays of the period were likely much more collaborative than they are now.
(And eny fule kno that the plays of so-called William Shakespeare were really written by Christopher Marlowe. Who staged his death and then hid under a pseudonym to throw the Elizabethan secret service off his trail. Or did Marlowe pretend to be Bacon?)
Oh, and the person who first suggested the Oxfordian theory was... J. Thomas Looney
(Although, alas, pronounced "loney". But you would, wouldn't you?)
