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      Jovana
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      And the seventeenth-century biographer John Aubrey hadn’t helped de Vere’s legacy by retailing an embarrassing and probably apocryphal anecdote about him: “This Earl 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 travel seven years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, ‘My lord, I had forgot the fart.’”
    
    
      — Oct 03, 2015 05:40AM
    
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      Jovana
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      Unfortunately, the conviction that Shakespeare was godlike had by now intensified to the point where his plays could casually be referred to as a “Bible of Humanity” and a “Bible of Genius,” and his words juxtaposed with those of Holy Writ to underscore their scriptural force in books such as J. B. Selkirk’s Bible Truths with Shakespearean Parallels.
    
    
      — Sep 30, 2015 11:42AM
    
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      By the end of the eighteenth century the idea of a divine Shakespeare had become commonplance. Still, it wasn't as if anyone was paying homage to his image in a house of worship. Another century would pass before that happened.
    
    
      — Sep 30, 2015 03:49AM
    
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      Yet referring to Shakespeare as divine had become so habitual that by 1728 a sharp-eared foreigner like Voltaire couldn't help but notice that Shakespeare "is rarely called anything but 'divine' in England" - to which Arthur Murphy proudly retorted, "With us islanders, Shakespeare is a kind of established religion in poetry."
    
    
      — Sep 30, 2015 03:30AM
    
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      Jennifer Hill
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      Meant to finish this while in SF but ended up spending all my time exploring the town or being exhausted & sunburnt from exploring. So I'm just getting back into it!
    
    
      — Jul 05, 2015 11:59PM
    
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      Jennifer Hill
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      I like how he totally calls out one of his fellow Shakespearean scholars for believing the plays are autobiographical.
    
    
      — Jun 14, 2015 06:54PM
    
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