03-06-2019, 06:40 AM
I really don't care if Will Shakespeare is a pen name, someone brilliant wrote the Shakespeare plays, just as someone brilliant wrote Beethoven's symphonies.
Somebody with wide-ranging knowledge and a searching intellect also wrote John Dee's books and the dispersion of his personal collection of other people's books seems to follow the historical record quite well also.
These "stories" do not exist in a vacuum. There is historical evidence to support them and I doubt if someone else forged John Dee's ex libris in his handwriting in tomes from his book collection.
I also doubt that a fake Edward Kelley was put in prison in Prague because there is historical evidence from numerous people that he was there.
Somebody with wide-ranging knowledge and a searching intellect also wrote John Dee's books and the dispersion of his personal collection of other people's books seems to follow the historical record quite well also.
These "stories" do not exist in a vacuum. There is historical evidence to support them and I doubt if someone else forged John Dee's ex libris in his handwriting in tomes from his book collection.
I also doubt that a fake Edward Kelley was put in prison in Prague because there is historical evidence from numerous people that he was there.