By the pricking of my thumbs...

The hurlyburly's just beginning.

Last night, ron_drummond heard Richard Thompson (of all people!) ask, "Does anyone here think Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare?"

And today I read that the vile Emmerich crew has been scatter-bombing propaganda in the schools:

Already heading into classrooms from the film's producers is a slick
6-page color brochure, "Anonymous -- Was Shakespeare a Fraud?" Its "Dear
Educator" advice declares its "Target Audience… is students in English
literature, theater, and British history classes," with "Program
Objectives… to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to
examine theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works."

If I were a teacher, I'd start by reading my class Aubrey's story from Brief Lives: 

THIS Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen
Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and
ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen
welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

And I'd allow them three seconds of illustrative jeering every time the bugger's name was mentioned.

It's gone viral.

I am cheered by this incomparable snark from Alan Nelson (thank you, angevin2 ).

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