(163) The Washington Post chastises Justice John Paul Stevens..unjustified inoportune slanders of Prof.Gary Taylor.

Prof.Gary Taylors appalling attitude towards Non-Stratfordians

John Paul Stevens (no 62), a retired justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1975-2010) belongs to the Anti-stratfordians (→ "Wall Street Journal, April 2009") believing the works ascribed to William Shakespeare actually were not written by the man from Stratford.

In an article →"The justice doth protest too much, methinks", April 6,2014, of the Washington Post by fiction Editor, →Ron Charles[left] former Supreme Court Justice was chastised for his interest in the Shakespeare authorship question.

Washington Post quoted  →Prof. Gary Taylor[right], editor of “→The New Oxford Shakespeare”:

"Anyone is entitled to an opinion about the value of a work of art (...) but there is such a thing as scholarship, even expertise. Conspiracy theories about the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays all depend upon a failure to respect the simple distinction between literature, which rightly belongs to everyone, and literary history, which, like legal history, is not a hobby, but a specialist discipline, best debated and adjudicated by experts. Don’t rely on my opinion of case law, and don’t rely on John Paul Stevens’s opinion about the authorship of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream."

Taylors appalling attitude corresponds to what was expressed in →"Blog157" (experts) , and in →Blog Nr.50!(conspiracy theories)

A small selection of Shakspere Doubters [Anti-Stratfordians]:[In case of interest click corresponding Wikipedia entry)→1,   →2,   →3,   →4,   →5 ,  →6,   →7,   →8,   →9, 
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Supreme Court Debates Who Wrote Shakespeare