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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: Shakespeare’s 'Tenth Muse'? |
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Shakespeare’s 'Tenth Muse'?
Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, after wheat, was hemp--Cannabis sativa, also known as marijuana. The sovereign herself encouraged its growth. Hemp fibers were fashioned into rope, paper, garments, and sails. "Queen Elizabeth's navy ran on that stuff," says Clay professor of scientific archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, who recently helped focus high technology on fragments unearthed from a literary dig to suggest that the Elizabethans may also have smoked marijuana for its mind-altering effects. One smoker may even have been William Shakespeare.
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/0901215.html
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The Earl of Oxford was the one who wrote the plays, not will. Sorry, but I just had to bring that up.
I have heard the same thing, ferre, and also that pipes were found amongst his theatrical stuff.
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