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[conculture] Re: New data point for Brithenig time line
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Andrew Smith wrote:
> Stratford-upon-Avon lies on the bordermarches
> between Kemr and England, so I can't say at this point whether Bardd lla
> Afon existed as a playwright - perhaps he was a soldier on the border.
Humph. I think he existed, and went to London --- but he was probably
bilingual, like most borderers.
> Even if he did exist, the Folio would have been different because of the
> changes in the timeline.
AFAIK only _Henry VIII_ disappears from the canon, and it's a marginal
play anyway --- Shakespeare probably wrote only part of it, or
perhaps heavily revised someone else's play. There
is no reason why his company shouldn't have acquired James II/VI
(James I *here*) as its patron after his coronation.
Of course the Elizabethan Age becomes the Jacobian Age.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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