2010-03-18

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2010-03-18 03:19 pm

The "Da Vinci Code" of Shakespeare texts

I noticed that this text recently showed up as a freely available etxt, and thought I would mention it as one of those texts whose wacko theories about Shakespeare still shows up in various fiction and nonfiction texts. There is also a link to the etext of _The Boke of Saint Albans_.

Bacon, Shakespeare, and the Rosicrucians (London: G. Redway, 1888), by William Francis C. Wigston
• multiple formats at Google;
US access only
http://books.google.com/books?id=O1g4GCp4VusC
• multiple formats at archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/baconshakespear00wigsgoog
plaintext version
http://www.archive.org/stream/baconshakespear00wigsgoog/baconshakespear00wigsgoog_djvu.txt

The boke of Saint Albans"
BY DAME JULIANA BERNERS
CONTAINING TREATISES ON HAWKING, HUNTING, AND COTE ARMOUR:
http://www.archive.org/stream/bokeofsaintalban00bernuoft/bokeofsaintalban00bernuoft_djvu.txt
PRINTED AT SAINT ALBANS BY THE SCHOOLMASTER-PRINTER IN 1486

REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE
kestrell: (Default)
2010-03-18 04:23 pm
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Best Horror of the Year 2 edited by Ellen Datlow available as ebook

I haven't read the anthology yet but have read some ofthe stories in it--I love the John Langan story about the Poe class
http://www.webscription.net/p-1240-the-best-horror-of-the-year-volume-two.aspx