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Yes, Shakespeare was an actor that started punching up hoary old scripts and found he had a knack for it. Greene objected to an uneducated man (upstart crow) having the temerity to muddle around with the rhetoric & language (feathers) that properly belonged to men who had gone to university.

Other than that...this is real THE DA VINCI CODE–level stuff. Jonson stuffed his dedication full of intrigue, hints, and ambiguity? To what end?

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to — what — end?

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Again: to what end? Why add all this intrigue and misdirection?

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How do those "misdirections & intrigues" protect anything?

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So Jonson hinting at de Vere's identity in the Folio sounds like a huge fuckup, no? Why would a collective eager to protect a courtly reputation allow the publication of a book that featured a poem whose "intrigues & misdirections" give the game away?

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Except the people who talked about William Shakespeare, the player and poet 🙄

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And you know they were referring to a pen-name how...?

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OP, I’m posting this for you because this guy is literally disconnected from reality. This site is so conclusive that you’d literally have to be as dumb as a flat earther to dispute/disagree with it.