For fans of WSTFTD, Will apologizes for no post this weekend. And so do I.

Aristus

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Sun Oct-30-11 08:15 PM
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For fans of WSTFTD, Will apologizes for no post this weekend. And so do I.

Will Shakespeare is currently in negotiations to buy Blackfriars Theatre, to give The King's Men acting company an indoor venue for winter performances. He was unable to furnish me with a quote for the weekend.

Plus, I had to work at the clinic this weekend. Last minute substitution for one of my colleagues. It wasn't too bad for a Saturday. I gave a newly-diagnosed cancer patient something for the pain. And I had a facepalm 15 minutes or so trying to convince a panicky first-time mother that her perfectly healthy little angel was all right, and that 97.6F is NOT a fever...

Next weekend, William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day will return!

"I'll be back..."

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sun Oct-30-11 08:26 PM
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1. My dear Aristus!

Of course we understand completely!

Shit happens, and life gets in the way, all the time...

You have been remarkably faithful!

I cannot believe that new mom. *facepalm* She has much growing up to do...Wait till her baby really has a fever!

We'll be here when you return...

:hug:

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Aristus

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Sun Oct-30-11 08:32 PM
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2. Thanks, CalPeg. I love doing WSTFTD so much...

I've been doing the post on and off since about mid-2006. I can't believe I used to post one every day! (Except weekends back then...) THAT took some doing! I used to think up and research a quote the night before, then get up early before my wife awoke in order to post it on the computer. (She STILL doesn't know I post on DU; the perils of living with, and loving, a Republican...)

It's so much easier to post the Thought on the weekends now. B-)

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Dystopian

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Sun Oct-30-11 08:39 PM
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3. Oh!

Aristus:hug:
Shakespeare needs a break...he's just pulling your leg.:D
I had to smile about the panicky new mother...that was me almost 40 years ago.
She sneezed, I cried, I called the doctor....

Nice seeing you....
:hi:

peace~

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Aristus

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Sun Oct-30-11 10:51 PM
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4. You too, Dystopian!

B-) :hug: :hi:

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msanthrope

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Sun Oct-30-11 11:01 PM
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5. Us Oxfordians note the lapse. nt

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Aristus

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Sun Oct-30-11 11:13 PM
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6. It's not as big a lapse as Edward De Vere dying in 1604 before many of Shakespeare's

best and most famous plays were written... :P

The Earl of Oxford writing and staging plays from beyond the grave is much harder to believe than a talented writer, actor, and acting company investor producing plays of exquisite beauty, character, and psychological depth right up until two years or so before his own death...

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msanthrope

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Sun Oct-30-11 11:55 PM
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7. In 1604 a 4 year gap in 'Shakespeare' publications began. It ended in 1608 with a flood of 'new'

plays.

I guess Stratfordians would like to believe that no one is published posthumously. Nor does any writer ever have their fragments worked on and published....

I suppose we are expected to believe that Shakespeare had a four year mourning period for de Vere? Or is it more likely that Elizabeth Trentham simply needed the money?

Will.I.am Shakes-spear. Pallas Athena aside, I am on the side of Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Justice Stevens.

Shake a lance, at your ignorance. (Forgive Ben Jonson.)

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Aristus

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Mon Oct-31-11 10:15 PM
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8. Not at all. Shakespeare worked on the fragments of the works of others.

And had at least one known collaborator. It's not the Stratfordians who will believe any outlandish theory, it's the Oxfordians. Why the desperate desire to have someone else, anyone else, receive credit for the plays that William Shakespeare wrote? Is it because, as the common Oxfordian argument goes: "Only an aristocrat could have had the knowledge and education to have written these plays"?

It's a poor argument; look at English aristocrats today. Not the brightest bulbs in the box...

It's okay. No one will chide you for admitting what the rest of us know: The plays of William Shakespeare were written by William Shakespeare.

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