Dana F. Sutton, Prof.Emeritus, University of California, Irvine answered some emails I had sent to him, asking him for his opinion regarding the existence or non-existence of a Shakespeare authorship problem : He responded exclusively to my Gager article, unfortunately not to the more interesting basic idea of an authorship question
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He impressively referred to me as
The attention-craving exhibitionist....simply cavorting in public
Letter excerpt:. emphasis(bold) by me.
..." your effort concerning GAGER ... was silly, contemptible and altogether not worthy of a response…..I couldn’t help asking myself how in the world anybody might gain the impression that BOTH Gager and Marlowe could be “Shakespeare,” for at least two reasons: a.) Gager did all his worthwhile work in Latin, never in English (his few poems written in English are of rather poor quality) and b.) his life is vastly better-documented than those of Shakespeare and Marlowe combined. It is almost as if you just picked the name of Gager out of a hat at random to have something to say.
, I cannot help asking myself how a man with a presumptive commitment to the scientific method within his own area of expertise can play so fast and free with the facts regarding the Shakespeare authorship question as if that is an area in which reasonable standards of proof do not apply.
There are some very good scholars (e. g. Nina Green and my Berkeley colleague Alan Nelson) who are convinced that Bacon = Shakespeare. I disagree with them but I respect them because they play the game by its accepted rules. There’s a world of difference between Bundesliga football and Aldous Huxley’s “centrifugal bumblepuppy” (=from Huxley's Brave New World) because the one game has a well-developed rulebook accepted by all its players and the other doesn’t, and there’s a world of difference between scholarship and simply cavorting in public as an attention-craving exhibitionist.
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The Degree of Concordances between William GAGER & Christopher MARLOWE [ here seen as the only 'true' Shakespeare] seems too massive, to be purely coincidental:
Arguments in this VIDEO
