Re: Breton, Cornish & French

John Briggs wrote:
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>>>> You should, btw, not assert that I say that 'Shakespeare' did not
>>>> write his Work, but that I say that it is unprovable that he did by
>>>> normal rules of evidence. This is not a dispute about the
>>>> author****p of Shakespeare, but about how we know anything.

>>> That is arrant nonsense - what 'normal rules of evidence' do you
>>> think apply?  For "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece",
>>> Shakespeare has written his own letter of dedication for the
>>> publication! You are just parrotting some nonsense  you have read,
>>> without thinking about it.

>> If we don't have any evidence that Shakespeare wrote the plays, then
>> we've no evidence that Dickens wrote the novels.

> Don't talk sense, you'll only confuse him :-)

He has a point - nobody alive today _saw_ Shakespeare writing the plays.

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J/

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