Miser of Avon?

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."

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

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'.