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Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

Subject: Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:53:17 +0000


Peter Neilson wrote:

And on the other foot there are those who'll claim that Bill didn't
write the works of Shakespeare, that "The Stratford Man's" name was a
convenient nom de plume of the True Author. Many think that de Vere,
17th Earl of Oxford, wrote Bill's stuff.

And Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Elizabeth I, and one or two others. I think the best comment on all these conspiracy theories was that Shakespeare's works were not written by Shakespeare, but by another man of the same name.

At nearly the same time as Shakespeare the Bible-translation team was
at work building the King James Version. That, too is closer to
Modern than it is to Middle.

The King James Bible looks both ways, because it borrows heavily from earlier versions of the English written 150 years earlier. Some people think that Shakespeare might have assisted, especially with the psalms. There's no direct evidence that he did, but the idea has been picked up in fiction, such as Rudyard Kipling's "Proof of Holy Writ" and the last issue of Neil Gaiman's graphical novel The Sandman.

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References:
RE: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: Michael Strickland
Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: Peter Neilson

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