tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post7287798289063617213..comments2012-12-22T22:44:26.046-08:00Comments on Yeomaniana: Was Shakespeare a time-travelling computer?Dr John Yeomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03457052363231077457noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-3687014442286670672010-06-01T22:23:27.458-07:002010-06-01T22:23:27.458-07:00Gosh. I've always thought the idea that "...Gosh. I've always thought the idea that "sombeody else" wrote Shakespeare's plays was risible practically since the time I first heard about such theories. I mean, really????? But then, I guess I'm a born skeptic. No offense meant to anyone who may disagree or have a different view, though.Anne Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03045500116098233731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-92155362285910823182009-08-12T12:41:48.132-07:002009-08-12T12:41:48.132-07:00Fergal, you should know.Fergal, you should know.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04050224391406917870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-87094674161052550992009-08-12T12:40:15.843-07:002009-08-12T12:40:15.843-07:00Uh, are you saying that Oxfordians don't have ...Uh, are you saying that Oxfordians don't have enough IQ points?Celia Fienneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085732808716671691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-30224407192151843012009-08-12T12:26:03.761-07:002009-08-12T12:26:03.761-07:00In the immortal words of Jacques Derrida: 'I s...In the immortal words of Jacques Derrida: 'I shall say it once, and once only'. Viz: <br /><br />The argument that the Stratford man 'Shakespere' - ill-educated and utterly unchronicled by his peers - could not have written the works attributed to “Shakespeare”, and that therefore the term “Shakespeare” was a dissimulative nom de plume for (say) the Earl of Oxford, defies Eco’s Razor (Eco 1992: 24). <br /><br />It is needlessly complicated. <br /><br />There is nothing implausible in the supposition that a literary prodigy as precocious as Chatterton yet as sociopathic as Salinger should have remained advisedly reclusive in an age when adventurous playwrights - like Jonson, Nash, Middleton, et alia - were routinely jailed.<br /><br />Shakespeare's true genius was evidenced most patently in his obscurity, I contend.<br /><br />Thus, do I confute Looney, Ogburn and Greenwood, all of whom I have perused, who collectively reveal, in their morological apercus, more enthymemes even than Stephen Greenblatt.<br /><br />I shall now return me to the sanity of Yeoman studies and I trust you will do likewise.Dr John Yeomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03457052363231077457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-84576916139313292512009-08-12T12:07:19.747-07:002009-08-12T12:07:19.747-07:00I rarely agree with you, Fergal, but you have a po...I rarely agree with you, Fergal, but you have a point. Some of those fideists are as fanatical as Jacques Derrida, and as dangerous, though not as handsome.<br /><br />They kicked out one transcendental verity in the ugly fat Stratford businessman just so they could worship another in the slimline, cerebral, aristocratic Earl of Oxford. Pure elitism! (I bet they all went to comprehensive schools and have a chip on their shoulders because they never qualified for Oxbridge. Just like Ben Jonson.)<br /><br />Oh, it makes my blood boil!Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04050224391406917870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-15944278131266260532009-08-12T11:58:44.564-07:002009-08-12T11:58:44.564-07:00Ho, master. I see you have just started a flame wa...Ho, master. I see you have just started a flame war with the Shakespeare Fellowship! Was it really so wise to suggest that Shakespeare might have been a computer program, when all those Oxfordians light candles to the notion that the Bard was a factoid - the Earl of Oxford?<br /><br />Does our august Institute really need a jihad? <br /><br />Can the cafeteria cope with 1200 True Believers descending on it, all brandishing the Book of Thomas J. Looney and wearing brown crepe stockings?<br /><br />Have a heart, it's not even Halloween yet!Celia Fienneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085732808716671691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-56521437552600371992009-07-26T05:33:33.410-07:002009-07-26T05:33:33.410-07:00You got the beta version.You got the beta version.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04050224391406917870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707723129799996983.post-41661816544667670542009-07-26T05:32:34.638-07:002009-07-26T05:32:34.638-07:00Wow! If MIT is sending back time-travelling algori...Wow! If MIT is sending back time-travelling algorithms to infect our neural pathways, I guess it explains your own genius, John. You're a robot.<br /><br />But why did I miss out?Celia Fienneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085732808716671691noreply@blogger.com