I am appalled that the NYTimes would publish this
lunacy, and adding insult to injury, publish it under a title
that implies that there is historical evidence that Oxford--
or anyone other than the actor William Shakespeare whose name
is on the published plays and poems and on the monument in
his home town of Stratford-- wrote the plays attributed to
Shakespeare. There is no such evidence, and the article cites
none. It is all speculation, supported mostly by smoke and
mirrors, and partly by misstatements that any historian who
specializes in the era would have flagged as flat out nonsense.
Doesn't the Times have copy editors and fact checkers
to prevent lunatics from misleading readers? Do you publish
error riddled articles supporting lunatic theories on your
Business or Science pages too, or is it only in the Arts that
facts don't matter?
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