Comment on the great Shakespeare authorship controversy on the internet (HLAS)
The debate has now been going on
for some eleven years of endless quarrelling
about who really wrote the works of Shakespeare
which has now produced some 25,000 discussions,
in which one theme has been dominant:
the meanness of Stratfordians slugging any opposition
with a thuggee might by any means destroying any effort
at alternative ideas and theories and research
trying honestly to offer better explanations to the problem
of the most unsatisfactory representation
of an amateur illiterate and phoney upstart from the country
as the master of the finest poetry yet written
in the English language, while in fact all other theories
are much more satisfactory, convincing and make better sense.
But since they can't be proven, the Stratfordian meanness
arrogantly pursues and assumes the right of keeping up the bully attitude
defending the establishment at any cost,
persisting in maintaining that there's only one side to the truth,
ignoring and suppressing that there are more sides to any truth
than ever can be grasped, encompassed or suspected.
Meanwhile, the works keep marching on
completely unperturbed by academic quarrels,
living their own lives of masks and set-up characters
and never quarrelled over, as if their creator,
that most dubious enigmatic and evasive author
never had existed. And perhaps that was the very aim
and purpose and intention, let alone desire of the author.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-07-26 at 10:14
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An endless quarrel over nothing
The debate has now been going on
for some eleven years of endless quarrelling
about who really wrote the works of Shakespeare
which has now produced some 25,000 discussions,
in which one theme has been dominant:
the meanness of Stratfordians slugging any opposition
with a thuggee might by any means destroying any effort
at alternative ideas and theories and research
trying honestly to offer better explanations to the problem
of the most unsatisfactory representation
of an amateur illiterate and phoney upstart from the country
as the master of the finest poetry yet written
in the English language, while in fact all other theories
are much more satisfactory, convincing and make better sense.
But since they can't be proven, the Stratfordian meanness
arrogantly pursues and assumes the right of keeping up the bully attitude
defending the establishment at any cost,
persisting in maintaining that there's only one side to the truth,
ignoring and suppressing that there are more sides to any truth
than ever can be grasped, encompassed or suspected.
Meanwhile, the works keep marching on
completely unperturbed by academic quarrels,
living their own lives of masks and set-up characters
and never quarrelled over, as if their creator,
that most dubious enigmatic and evasive author
never had existed. And perhaps that was the very aim
and purpose and intention, let alone desire of the author.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 412 times
Written on 2007-07-26 at 10:14
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