Subject: who would you like to meet
Posted by: buffyUK
Date: Aug 10 09
If you could meet any person past or present,who would it be,and why.
Posted by: buffyUK
Date: Aug 10 09
If you could meet any person past or present,who would it be,and why.
133 replies. On page 2 of 7 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Anton 
|
Yes Bx, I meant to say show. I'd love for him to see the aggression that is there. I won't let him go near the people, but we can watch from the balcony. Reply #21. Oct 02 09, 12:32 PM |
daver852
|
dsimpy - read the entire article and then give me a better explanation. And explain why the wife and daughters of the greatest writer in the English language were illiterate, why he published not a single word until after Marlowe's supposed death, why there is not one single contemporary reference to him as a writer, why his will mentions no books, no interest in the plays that were not published or performed until after his death, why his original memorial bust showed him to be a grain trader and not a writer. I could go on and on, but there is no need. No way the "Stratford Man" wrote those plays. Reply #22. Oct 02 09, 10:35 PM |
dsimpy
|
Fair point about reading the whole article, Dave - I'll try but it's tough-going! - but my point is it doesn't do a good job of making the case (I don't mean to assert therefore there isn't a case). In the meantime, as you obviously know more about this than I do, can I ask 'why?' What would Marlowe have let this happen? And, if your point is that his wife couldn't have been illiterate if married to the 'greatest playwright', does it follow you believe, since his wife was, that Shakespeare was also illiterate? Oh, and when Doctor Who visited Elizabethan England with Martha, why wasn't the episode called 'The Marlowe Code'? Reply #23. Oct 03 09, 2:48 AM |
| daver852
|
Not only was his wife illiterate, so were his parents and his children. As for the Stratford man, there is strong evidence that he may have been illiterate, or nearly so, as well. The only scraps of wriing that have survived are six "signatures" on legal documents, and all but part of one of them appear to have been written by legal clerks, not by William Shakespeare of Stratford. The only one that isn't is the one designated "by him" on his will, where the clerk wrote "William" and the Stratford man scrawled "Shakspear." One of the earliest references to him states "when called upon to write, he was in pain." Reply #24. Oct 04 09, 12:00 PM |
s-m-w
|
Borrowed from the "Absolute Shakespeare" "A major controversy today is brewing over this very contentious issue. The traditional camp maintains that William Shakespeare was indeed a poet, playwright and an actor. Critics known as "Oxfordians" argue that a more likely contender may have been Edward de Ver (1550-1604) whom T.J. Looney in 1920, claimed authored Shakespeare's plays, Christopher Marlowe or even Queen Elizabeth herself! A problem for the Edward de Vere line is that many of Shakespeare’s plays were said to have been written after Edward de Vere’s death in 1604. Shakespeare died in 1616. The Oxfordians argue quite reasonably, that proof of Shakespeare’s authorship is largely circumstantial and sketchy at best. These scholars argue that Shakespeare was better known in Stratford as a businessman not a playwright. However despite putting up some plausible contenders for Shakespeare’s throne, Shakespeare remains the most likely evidence wise. For now at least, it is still safe to say Shakespeare did indeed write the 37 plays and 154 sonnets credited to him." You have to love those conspiracy theories...lol Reply #25. Oct 04 09, 12:20 PM |
blazerfan004
|
I want to meet Mary Queen of Scots. On the day she was beheaded, the guy that was supposed to cut her head off with the axe, missed, and just hit her shoulder. Mary Queen said: "Bless You". I want to ask her why. If someone tried to kill me with an axe and missed, I'd be pissed off. Reply #26. Oct 04 09, 12:49 PM |
Yarabokin
|
I think I'd want to meet Alan Turing, just to apologise for the shoddy treatment we gave him after the war. Reply #27. Oct 04 09, 12:54 PM |
| daver852
|
Edward de Vere was a minor poet who published many works during his lifetime. He wasn't very good. In fact, he was pretty awful. His poems (to use the vernacular phrase) suck. On the other hand, Marlowe reads like Shakespeare. Exactly like Shakespeare. So much like like Shakespeare that a technical analysis can't distinguish between the two. There is not one - I repeat, not one - unambiguous contemparary reference to the Stratford man as a writer published during his lifetime. No one in the literary world paid the slightest attention when he died. A couple of elegies from third rate poets; that was it. No one with any knowledge of Elizabethan literature could make a case that this money-grubbing hayseed, William Shakespeare, the grain merchant of Stratford-on-Avon, ever wrote a line of blank verse in his life. Reply #28. Oct 05 09, 12:57 AM |
| sherry75
|
Not keen on him then Daver.... rofl Reply #29. Oct 05 09, 1:10 AM |
blindcat78
|
I would like to meet Jesse Duplantis because the God shines through me & makes me laugh with joy! Reply #30. Oct 21 09, 7:09 PM |
Calpurnia09
|
My grandfather left me a long typed letter in his 'Complete works of Shakespeare' which demonstrated that the plays contained a cipher that showed conclusively that the author of the plays was Francis Bacon. Edward Clark has suggested that the carving on the original funerary monument (for we can place no reliance on repaired work) contained the inscription which concealed the sentence, "FRA BA WRT EAR AY", meaning Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays. Personally, I agree with the man who said, "William Shakespeare, or another man of the same name, wrote the plays." Reply #31. Nov 13 09, 5:28 AM |
| Calpurnia09
|
I'd like to meet Michael Palin. Not only is he a very witty man but he has made some very interesting voyages and I would like to know more about them. Reply #32. Nov 29 09, 7:16 AM |
| oldstuff28
|
I would like to meet Michael Palin, too. I just wouldn't want to meet any of those Palins from Alaska. Reply #33. Nov 29 09, 6:41 PM |
phil_wright
|
I think Michael Palin is a fascinating man but the guy I'd really like to meet is Clive James. James is an Australian journalist who lives in the UK and is a wonderful writer and raconteur. Reply #34. Nov 29 09, 7:28 PM |
muffy19
|
There is really only one answer to this question------ Terry Ford Reply #35. Nov 29 09, 9:13 PM |
howdyitsme
|
nice sucking up Muffy! (just teasing) I would like to meet Margaret Pole. I am writing my Master's thesis about her so it might be nice to do a first person interview and see what she thinks about my work and opinions. Reply #36. Mar 21 10, 8:41 AM |
Cymruambyth
|
daver, I have to ask: have you ever read Marlowe? I've performed in plays by both Marlowe and Shakespeare and I can tell you from experience that Marlowe doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as Shakespeare! And your contention that technical analysis can't distinguish between the two writers' styles is also very iffy. Got any evidence to that effect? And who did the analysis. If you ever spent any time in Warwickshire, you'd know that Shakespeare's plays are chock full of references to Warwickshire life and customs (especially in 'As You Like It' and 'Hamlet', and I doubt if any of the other contenders in the Shakespeare stakes would have any intimate knowledge of Warwickshire since they didn't live there. (I was born and lived on the Warwickshire side of Birmingham, and I can recognize the idiosyncratic Warwickshireisms in the plays, believe me.) In the final analysis, who gives a rat's patoot anyway? Why not just enjoy the plays and sonnets without fussing about who wrote them? Don't we all have bigger, present-day problems to face? Reply #37. Mar 22 10, 1:20 PM |
| Cymruambyth
|
Oops, forgot to say who I'd like to meet. There are several historical figures I'd like to meet: - Owain Glyndwr, the last true Prince of Wales; - Elizabeth I, whom I consider to be one of the best monarchs ever to rule England; - Dylan Thomas; - Jane Austen; - Emmeline Pankhurst - St. Augustine, to give him a piece of my mind and to find out what he had against women? - Winston Churchill; - Mahatma Gandhi; - Eleanor Roosevelt; - Desmond Tutu. Reply #38. Mar 22 10, 1:29 PM |
xbunny
|
Pierre Elliot Trudeau Amelia Earhart Princess Diana Reply #39. Mar 22 10, 9:31 PM |
redwaldo
|
John Lennon-to get to know him Socrates- as above Cleopatra-to find out why she did things in THAT way Mary Shelley- to talk to a genius! Reply #40. Mar 22 10, 9:44 PM |
133 replies. On page 2 of 7 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Legal / Conditions of Use
|
|
: