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1. Nicholas,since you’ve misplaced your copy of “Contested Will”,I won’t plague you with the difference between Shapiro’s twaddle and what you believe that he is twaddling about.However,Harold has recently announced that he regards “The Lodger” which is about Shakspere among the pimps and whores as the way to go.
   The trail blazer on Shakspere as pimp was former Harvard professor Alden Brooks in three trail blazing works “Will Shakspere,Factotum and Agent,”,”Will Shakspere and the Dyer’s Hand” and “The Other Side of Shakespeare”.The first of these was selected by the New York Times in 1937 as one of the two best books on Shakespeare of the year and it is delightful to find “real research” finally catching up with Brooks(and John Michell and me)on two sets of documents which have been available since 1910 and circa 1930.In fact these are the only two documentary discoveries about Shakspere since the nineteenth century and both link him squarely to the skin trade.He trafficked in both young mistresses and aging geniuses.
   Your former colleagues in intellectual mayhem over at the HLAS Shakespeare Authorship blog were still in a state of denial about this a couple of years back.But with Shapiro throwing his weight behind it,they will probably come around.

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