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I think that he could have been passionately interested in who was to follow Elizabeth I and did not like that King with "witchcraft wits". You will say that his political allegories are Oxford's, but I believe that the man who wrote the Funeral Elegy was quite involved at least emotionally with current affairs. I do not know why self interest would stop this involvement. That is not my understanding of liberals through-out history. By and large they are not aristocrats and many ended up in Siberia or the like. The etching in your mind of Shakespeare does not permit other lines of personality to appear.
None of us can know how well Shakespeare knew court life. Aemilia Bassano Lanier, for instance, had been the mistress of the Lord (Hunsun) who sponsored Shakespeare's company. There are books that describe Shakespeare's intimacy with that family. True or not, gossip prevails in a court atmosphere and surely Shakespeare's quick mind could expand on something minute.Posted by Florence Amit on April 15, 1997 at 16:09:51
In Reply to "you're right, Florence, " posted by Bill Routhier on April 15, 1997 at 14:05:18
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