Shakespeare

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"Scholarship implies an attitude toward truth and a method of working toward the establishment of truth-whether of historical events or of the meaning and significance of a literary work or of the nature of the world about us. The scholar has no axes to grind. He is not eager to prove his hypotheses correct, but rather to find out whether they

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My grandfather's cousin, Charlton Ogburn, was one of the leading Oxfordians of his day. I'm sure that, if you're researching Oxfordians, you'll come across him. I haven't read his book because it's massive, but people say that it's actually pretty convincing. Also, there's a Frontline report on Oxfordians that he's on that you should look at. Mostly because it's really funny when people use explainations like, "Well, you know, the Earl of Oxford was really gay."

Google him, he was a pretty cool guy, and very eloquent.

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Oh, yes, I've heard of him. It's cool that you're related to him! I confess, he's not exactly my favorite person right now, but on the list of Oxfordians who make me want to cry, he's way down at the bottom. Which is good. I guess.

Honestly, everyone was really gay-according to someone, anyway. For some people (like Kit Marlowe and Francis Bacon) there's a lot more evidence supporting this than there is for others (Oxford and Shakespeare, for example [because I don't think that 'and' is redundant]). I'm really fanatical right now, by the way, in case you couldn't tell. I am become very weary of conspiracy-theorists. Or actually, just about any kind of theorist.

Oh, it just occurred to me, the book that the above quote is from a review of is the book by Charlton Ogburn, Sr. and his wife, This Star of England.

So, to sum up, cool! I'm not related to anyone interesting.

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Oh, I think it's a load of baloney, too, but apparently people who read his book are mystically transformed into, if not believers, semi-un-doubters. Well, I guess I'm not well enough informed to pronounce in baloney or not, but had it not been for the theorists it never would have occurred to me question his identity. The thing about Charlton is that he was really, really passionate about the cause. He was a writer, but he really devoted his entire life to convincing people that Shakespeare was de Vere. For this reason it would make me sad to see him proven wrong, but at the risk of sounding unloyal to my familial connections, I see no reason why I shouldn't go on believing that Shakespeare was Shakespeare.