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Miser of Avon?
| GUEST | 28 Mar 01 - 11:25 AM | |
| Rick Fielding | 28 Mar 01 - 11:20 AM | |
| Fiolar | 28 Mar 01 - 10:58 AM | |
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Subject: RE: Miser of Avon? From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:25 AM All taken out of context. Read something good to get it in perspective, e.g., Sam Shoenbaum's 'Shakespeare's Lives'. |
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Subject: RE: Miser of Avon? From: Rick Fielding Date: 28 Mar 01 - 11:20 AM I wrote the plays....but HE'S the one who didn't pay his taxes! E. DeVere |
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Subject: Miser of Avon? From: Fiolar Date: 28 Mar 01 - 10:58 AM That well known Elizabethan Pot-Head (See recent thread) and Man-about-Town, Bill Shakespeare is in the news again. According to a new book by historian Katherine Duncan-Jones entitled "Ugentle Shakespeare" he failed to pay taxes which were levied in order to look after abandoned babies and the elderly. He also is said to have hoarded corn during a shortage in 1599 and supported the ending of common grazing rights. We now know why he left his wife his "second best bed." |
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