{"id":354,"date":"2008-05-28T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2008-05-28T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T14:11:52","slug":"goose-gander-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Goose, Gander, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not a new claim that maybe Shakespeare was someone else, or a collection of other people. How could it be, people wonder, that some under-educated rube from the provinces could write such beautiful, witty, universally acclaimed stuff?<\/p>\n

Ok. Whatever.<\/p>\n

Now, out comes a book claiming that Mary Shelley couldn’t have written Frankenstein. She was only eighteen, for one thing, and her other works don’t soar as high or dig as deep.<\/p>\n

But it’s one thing to claim that Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare. He’s a guy. When you claim that a woman’s husband (Percy Shelley, of course) was the true author of a classic, then you get called a misogynist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I assume that Mary wrote Frankenstein. Frankly, though I enjoyed the book, I don’t get how it’s so amazing that only a world-class poet could have written it. (And I’m far from alone. Germaine Greer thinks it’s so bad<\/a> that it’s obvious a teenage girl wrote it.) But it’s not right that any alternative claim must be called misogynistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not a new claim that maybe Shakespeare was someone else, or a collection of other people. How could it be, people wonder, that some under-educated rube from the provinces could write such beautiful, witty, universally acclaimed stuff? Ok. Whatever. Now, out comes a book claiming that Mary Shelley couldn’t have written Frankenstein. She was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}