tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702412755735548041.post4443606266834624241..comments2023-12-06T06:30:16.653-05:00Comments on The American Shakespeare Center's Education Department Blog: Imprimis: Links and Tidbits, 14 January 2011Sarah Enloehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702259810142614605noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1702412755735548041.post-16464777339297738742011-01-17T17:16:56.929-05:002011-01-17T17:16:56.929-05:00Amusing that the rabid anti-Stratfordian calls ske...Amusing that the rabid anti-Stratfordian calls skeptics of his conspiracy theory "descendants of Holofernes," given that a prominent early Baconian, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, interpreted Costard's comedic nonce word, "honorificabilitudinitatibus," as a Latin anagram confirming Bacon's authorship. It takes a particularly Holofernian mind not to realize that Costard, and probably Shakespeare, are using the silly word to mock the intellectual pretensions of academics, not convey a coded message to posterity.Alexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10051767198534522343noreply@blogger.com