Re: Breton, Cornish & French

Chess One wrote:

> "John Cartmell" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:4f750ada8ejohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>>In article <YNKdnT3BNrwXjiPanZ2dnUVZ_rmjnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  Chess One <OneChess@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>There is no evidence whatever that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
>>
>>In your terms: what would constitute 'evidence'. In common parlance (and
>>academic research) there is plenty of evidence - but you are clearly
more
>>picky.
> 
> 
> Perhaps I should re-emphasise that I am not speculating on Shakespearean

> author****p - but on methodology - and somewhere at the head of these
posts 
> remarked that there is not /written/ evidence [which I dare call
'normative' 
> for academic] in his own hand of that to inform us.
> 
> Therefore the 'plentiful' evidence is not any form of primary material -
and 
> is indeed a somewhat mixed bag of second sourcing, suppositions [rightly
to 
> whatever degree].
> 
> So the 'how we know what we know' question is answered in the instance
of 
> Shakespeare by saying 'second sourcing of literary material from 
> contem****aneous sources'. There are additional materials which contest
the 
> degree that Shakespeare wrote anything at all, or to what degree he did.
It 
> is not necessary to believe anything about this subject in order to note

> that varieties of opinion exist.
> 
> Since these messages include a Cornish newsgroup, it is pertinent to
mention 
> that Conrishman A. L. Rowse was [perhaps?] the principal Elizabethan
scholar 
> of the immediately preceding decade at Oxford, and author of some half
dozen 
> Shakespearean commentaries - and a frim 'Stratfordian'. Yet even Rowse 
> speculated that for LLL, the principal hand in that was not Shakespeare
but 
> Bacon - since he saw in it something of a refutation of Euro 
> Roscicrucianism; a certain sterility, which was somewhat relieved by the

> arrival of les femmes.
> 
> The singular danger of only applying 'Author'-ity to any case without 
> sufficient evaluation, is found in for example Grave's great whitewash
of 
> that murderous son of a ***** Claudius.
> 
> Cordially, Phil Innes

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