Thanks for the observation, Stephen. I took the point of your note to
be  that interesting works are those that seem multi-vocal.   Whether
or not a particular work was in fact written by multiple authors seems
besides that point.  



On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Stephen Blackwell wrote:


<excerpt> I was just looking back over some sections of Otto Rank's
<italic>Art and Artist</italic> (in English; Knopf, 1932), a book
filled with fascinating consonances and dissonances
<italic>vis-a-vis</italic> Nabokov, and stumbled upon a passage that I
think gives a potent context for the present discussion:


     ". . .it can hardly be chance that the greatest creations of the
human spirit, such as the New Testament, the Homeric poems, and
Shakspere's [sic] plays, should, on the one hand, have been centres of
academic disputes as to authorship and, on the other, should have
inspired the imagination of whole centuries in favour of one author"
(382).



 It is probably also worth bearing in mind that <italic>Timon of
Athens</italic> is, or at least at one time was, one of the plays
considered even by non-Baconians (i.e. Stratfordians)

 to be of disputed, or perhaps mixed, authorship.  I don't have time
to chase references on that one, sorry.  Any annotated edition should
have the details.  And maybe Sam Schuman can chime in with more
details?


 Stephen Blackwell




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