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[conculture] Re: New data point for Brithenig time line
- To: John Cowan <[email protected]>
- Subject: [conculture] Re: New data point for Brithenig time line
- From: Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:21:39 +1300 (NZDT)
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From: Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Humph. I think he existed, and went to London --- but he was probably
> bilingual, like most borderers.
>
In which case he might have been more interesting - the greatest English
playwright coming from the fringe of English culture, not its heart. The
reason I suggest that he might have been a soldier *there* is that it is
speculated he served in the Low Countries *here*, but it cannot be proven,
no record survives. Nothing would contridict such a person writing
Shakespeare's plays, but he might have also participated in the religious
conflicts that marred the British Counter-Reformation *there*. (Malvolio
as heretic...)
> 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.
>
Macbeth II - the Revenge of the Witches! There is the possibility that
the Wars in France under the Plantagenets may have taken a different
course. The conflicts at Agincourt, Crecy, or Poitiers may have turned
out differently if without Welsh contingents alongside English. (It's a
possibility I'm wanting to test, but I haven't looked into the details
yet.)
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus [email protected]
"Break someone's leg."
- Old Orc Saying.
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