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I edited this essay today, 6 May 2006, from high camp on Mt. Rainier.
I edited this essay today, 6 May 2006, from high camp on Mt. Rainier. And sent the changes in by cell phone, from my laptop. Conditions were winterish, so I was confined to quarters. I am John Baker, Ph.D. (abd) an independent scholar of these times for more than four decades. I have published in peer reviewed journals, given papers on these subjects at Oxford and Cambridge and am the webmaster of the most frequently visited site on Marlowe and Shakespeare. I would be most happy to discuss any and all of my remarks here, which I take to be factual. I note there is no DNA proof for this, but the ordinary biographic evidence is strong. I intend to flesh out Herbert's life with additional information, particularly about his tutor Hugh Sanford, who Louis Ule, for one, believed was Marlowe, about his marriage to Mary Talbot, who Marlowe would have known well, while he was "attendant" and "reader" for Lady Arbella Stuart, who lived with the Talbots, as had, in a matter of speaking, Mary, Queen of Scots. I intend to close the essay on Herbert's tenure as Master of Revels and Censor of Plays, which most scholars have ignored. Over a decade ago I edited Charles Hamilton's book on Cardenio, which Herbert's counterpart, George Buc, had mislabeled as "The Second Maiden's Tragedy." There is a curious silence among scholars of Shakespeare's works to document the lives of the court officials he should have interacted with, including Tyllney, Buc, Herbert and Lewknor. If I survive this blizzard, I hope to provide essays on all four of these persons of interest in the Shakespeare authorship question.
Carry on, but I think the article has to be expressed in more neutral terms. At the moment it reads like a polemical essay. Paul B11:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
