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The Ovid part is particularly interesting. Arthur Golding was De Vere's uncle and tutor when he was living as a ward in Cecil's house. Golding's translation of Ovid was the only one of his numerous translations and other authorial outputs that was...lascivious. I mean Ovid was all about sex and Golding was puritanical. But the 15 year old De Vere just might be a better candidate for actually having done the translation as an exercise in Latin/English translation and then his uncle put his name on it. And Ovid is Shakespeare's most used source along with the Geneva bible. The bible that De Vere had over a thousand correspondences with Shakespeare in the marginalia.

A Deeper Look at the Arthur Golding Canon
http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/Newsletter_Archive/fall%2007%207.1.pdf




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By: Cactus Flower
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Thu, 13 Oct 11 5:48 PM
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One thing one discovers about Shakespeare: whatever subject he touched, everyone believes he had an expert level of knowledge in it.

Ovid - master of his work.
Lawyer - clearly trained.
Court politics - must have been a participant
Sailor - knew his full fathom five from his scuttle-butt

and on and on.

This wasn't an ordinary kind of brain.


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