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I think it appropriate that my virgin post here should be as provocative and disruptive as possible.
Well now, why would you think that, I wonder? I am posting to advise you that we have had more than enough of that recently. Though I applaud your topic as being appropriate, I question your stated motive. This is not an invitation to reply.
Edit--Note: I made this post, speaking as the Administrator.
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For those who embrace the copious evidence which supports Oxford as the writer, it may be interesting to note that his birthday is actually April 11th.
Which, quite significantly*is April Double Fools' Day, April Triple Fools' Day coming on July 10th. I've never had the stick-to-it-iveness to figure out when April Quadruple Fools' Day is.
*Or not, depending
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Well, an interesting way to start SilkMuse, but WELCOME  none-the-less...
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Silk! I see you made it here! Welcome aBoard! Hope you enjoy posting here as much as I do.
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SilkMuse, if you really are a new person, then I bid you welcome. (Me, and the Administrator, too...)
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Now Jackie, that's hardly the warm welcome to a newcomer that's become your trademark. The warmest of welcomes to you, silkmuse. Here's hoping you slide smoothly into our sweet company. 
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Imagination
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:--
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,--
That is the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of joy;
Or in the night, imaging some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
from A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Wm Shakespeare? Francis Bacon? Edward DeVere? Christopher Marlowe?
The Only WO'N!
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>or the obviously well educated, well travelled and well-read man who is responsible for the plays which bear the name of Shakespeare
There is also the view that a collection of writers got together in the pub to write and whenever they thought that they'd turned out something decent they called it Shakespeare - that might well account for his inability to spell his own name consistently.
I also love Tom Stoppard's idea in the script of "Shakespeare in Love" that all his best plots came from Marlowe.
Will we ever know the truth? Whatever the answer, April 23rd is as good a day as any to celebrate the Bard - the Scots have Burns Night, so I think that we should have a big party every year, any excuse really.
By the way Maverick, do the Welsh have a special Dylan Thomas day?
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a special Dylan Thomas day?yes - it's any day with a 'd' in the name 
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