Could Hamlet Be the "Other Shakespeare?" (8)

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All of this is, of course, only speculation, and it comes from a layman without any special background or credentials.

But its non-academic origins may, in a paradoxical way, increase its credibility.  I wasn't some English-lit student desperately clawing the text for one more form of symbolism or "hidden meaning" to proclaim.  I was just an adult reading a play.

There's also another reason why the two-Shakespeares explanation tends to stick with me.    it's that whenever I try to dismiss the idea, I feel a very strange kind of sadness.    The sadness isn't for myself, or the possibility of having to abandon what might have been an interesting discovery.  It's for the man behind Shakespeare's works. 

Having once considered the possibility that between the lines of Hamlet, there may be the voice of a gifted but deeply troubled nobleman calling out over the centuries for our understanding, I find it difficult to allow this shadowy entity to slip quietly back into oblivion.

(c) COPYRIGHT 1992 ROBERT WINTER.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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