| Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus by and Page 96; Vitaly Kutsenko, the elderly First Secretary of the town soviet either was pushed out of a first-floor window or tried to clamber out to escape the crowd | The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? Shapiro 2005, xvii—xviii; Schoenbaum 1991, 41, 66, 397—98, 402, 409; Taylor 1990, 145, 210—23, 261—5• But this method is in essence no different from the cryptogram, since Shakespeare's range of characters and plots, both familial and political, is so vast that it would be possible to find in the plays 'self-portraits' of, once more, anybody one cares to think of |
| no suspicions regarding Shakespeare's authorship except for a few mainly humorous comments were expressed until the middle of the nineteenth century" | deriving an idea of an author from his or her works is always problematic, particularly in a multi-vocal genre like drama, since it crucially underestimates the heterogeneous influences and imaginative reaches of creative writing |
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| is like asking a palaeontologist to debate a creationist's account of the fossil record | antagonism to the authorship debate from within the profession is so great that it would be as difficult for a professed Oxfordian to be hired in the first place, much less gain tenure |
In both cases an overwhelming scholarly consensus, based on a serious assessment of hard evidence, is challenged by passionately held fantasies whose adherents demand equal time.