Essay: ‘Anonymous’ and the Shakespeare conspiracy theory that wouldn’t die
By Ron Charles,
WashPost
Published: October 28 | Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2:27 PM
In London, the Flat Earth Society explains that we live on a giant disk.
In Petersburg, Ky., the Creation Museum shows cave men and dinosaurs frolicking together.
And in a movie theater near you, “Anonymous,” which opened Friday, reveals how the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
O brave new world — the culmination of more than 300 years of Enlightenment thinking and empirical science. But in the words of the Bard — whoever he was — “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”
(More here.)
WashPost
Published: October 28 | Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2:27 PM
In London, the Flat Earth Society explains that we live on a giant disk.
In Petersburg, Ky., the Creation Museum shows cave men and dinosaurs frolicking together.
And in a movie theater near you, “Anonymous,” which opened Friday, reveals how the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
O brave new world — the culmination of more than 300 years of Enlightenment thinking and empirical science. But in the words of the Bard — whoever he was — “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”
(More here.)
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