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Post by Frenchy Faith on Jul 25, 2004 4:01:31 GMT -5
I read this article in my english paper & I was like  !
I looked for the article on the net for you, if anyone is interested, & I found only a short version of the article but it might still give you an idea of what it is all about :
msnbc.msn.com/id/5250890/site/newsweek/
Enjoy! 
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Post by Faithy on Sept 3, 2004 3:13:32 GMT -5
"Mystery: Was Shakespeare a She?
Newsweek
June 28 issue
For more than 150 years, literary sleuths have questioned whether William Shakespeare—a man with only a grammar-school education, at best—could possibly have penned the greatest works in the English language. But if he didn't, who did? Dozens of candidates have been proposed, most of them men. But next week at a conference of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in London, American writer Robin Williams will argue that the true bard was actually a woman—Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke.
Sidney is a logical suspect. The most educated woman in England after Elizabeth I, she gathered leading writers about her in a sort of literary salon dedicated to elevating English literature. Sidney-as-bard would explain why Shakespeare wrote love sonnets to a younger man (her purported lover). It would clarify why the first collection of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to the earls of Pembroke and Montgomery (her sons). And it would explain Ben Jonson's phrase "sweet swan of Avon." She had two estates on the River Avon and her personal symbol was the swan. Case closed? Hardly. But Williams adds to the perennial intrigue.
—Anne Underwood "
wow that is crazy!! i never knew about this theory. it's quite interesting, and seems to make sense. thanks for posting it Frenchy, i will have to look into this further.
~ Faithy
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