Next is a snippet from Ros Barber again, and this time with one of her Marlovian cohorts, Peter Farey
They primarily take issue with the anti-Marlowe argument in
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt. But one of their points is more general:
Thus it is clear that despite the generally improved tone
of Shakespeare Beyond Doubt, the defenders of the orthodoxy continue
to hold the line that authorship questioners are morally or logically
deficient, and the question itself invalid. Charles Nicholl
demonstrates a clear distaste for "the interrogative syntax much favoured
in authorship literature." We, on the other hand, insist that
questioning is a legitimate human activity, central to all research in both the
humanities and the sciences. And though it is possible that the
Shakespeare authorship question will never be settled, we refer Charles Nicholl
and the contributors and editors of Shakespeare Beyond Doubt to this quote
from French philosopher and humanist Joseph Joubert:
"It
is better to debate a question without settling it,
than
to settle a question without debating it."
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