Cannabis discovered in tobacco pipes found in William Shakespeare's garden

[ish mailian]

Was that Marlowe's pipe or Sheridan's?
Great irony if it were Caliban's ...

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The news on Shakespeare is that he continues to humble us and play that
> old mirror trick, holding the glass up to our ignorance and our desperate
> and insatiable desire to know.
>
> Shakespeare on his knees in the alley...with his Sheridan's Emancipation,
> his pointed shoes, his pipe in his mouth and his tinker bells...
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ITYM that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a gay Catholic stoner.
>> We're sophisticated here ... no need to play along with fairy tales meant
>> for the groundlings.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Shakespeare was a gay Catholic stoner. This is old news, people!
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:15 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had a similar experience when Shakespeare, some said, was gay was
>>>> pushed by queer theorists during the culture wars.
>>>>
>>>> Of course there is no proof that Shakespeare smoked a pipe, owned a
>>>> pipe, ever smoked anything. There is no mention of pipes or grass or
>>>> tobacco in his plays, poems, letters...anywhere.
>>>>
>>>> The Shakespeare was gay theory has a bit more to support it, but is
>>>> little more than speculation and readings of his sonnet series as
>>>> autobiographical, though there is nothing in his biography to suppot this
>>>> reading and much to undermine it.
>>>>
>>>> Shakespeare was a Catholic is a better one.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My 11 year old brought his computer in my room this morning to show me
>>>>> this article, along with lots of questions! He said they "read lots of
>>>>> Shakespeare in third grade" but he never heard of this!
>>>>> Needless to say, an interesting conversation ensued...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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