What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
bard by any other name
Shakespeare's identity is once more in doubt. Although Francis Bacon has long been a candidate as the actual author of the plays, the new theories point to Christopher Marlowe and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. Ye critics, the play's the thing.
