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#LondonCalling: Doubting Shakespeare of Avon. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

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#LondonCalling: Doubting Shakespeare of Avon. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5eee55f9-6a2a-4e7d-8ac2-ff281dba98fb?shareToken=9b7a108880cfe39b48924c210cfa3369

1910 Stratford upon Avon: Anne Hathaway Cottage

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor visiting with Joseph Sternberg,

0:09.1

member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London, he writes political economics, and we observe

0:15.4

economics, but its fund also observe the politicians who deliver the economic messages.

0:20.8

Right now, labor is an ascendant. At At the same time there's a controversy growing

0:25.6

so we'll attend to that first and then come back to learning about Red Raynor.

0:29.9

The controversy is there is an event in June at a very famous library in London

0:36.7

attended by the celebrity Derek Jacobi from my understanding and literary critics

0:42.0

where in America a young American named

0:44.4

Winkler, is going to present the case or something of the case that Shakespeare

0:49.8

does not only have a thousand faces, the Duke of Oxford for example, but was also female.

0:57.0

Joe, this is wonderful. I read the piece immediately.

1:00.0

Is this a sensation in London or is it just all us old funny duddies who've been

1:05.8

entertained for decades because Monty Python says that Shakespeare is a suburban couple?

1:10.9

Are you entertained Joe?

1:12.3

I think it's kind of entertaining and

1:14.7

remember London loves nothing so much as a good Shakespeare scandal and it's

1:19.5

been a while since we had a bit of an uproar about who wrote Shakespeare's plays, usually London is in the middle

1:26.4

of some uproar or other about how they are being produced or who is starring in them or directing them.

1:33.6

So, you know, the flare-up of another authorship

1:37.3

controversy makes a refreshing change

1:39.9

from the usual around here.

1:42.1

We go now to Labor then. I I'll wait I wait for the event because it'll be spectacular

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