There was no complaint of attempted murder The phrase for fear of death and so forth is standard formula used in writs of attachment Yes which is handy for the posthumous reputation of a lot of homicidal Elizabethans show people In fact you recently posted a short list of such on another thread erroneously implying that I was not aware of the same The circumstances here warranr the harsher and by no means uncommon interpretation I can understand why gentle almost Victorian Hotson wanted to back off but you and Reedy Why stop ye now for breath Suc on the basis of FL s overall record was the interpretation of Langley s biographer who escaped the unpleasant inferences by raising the mistaken identity defense which we hear a lot around here i e it wasn t Shakespeare bur another gentleman of the same name At least that s where I think David Kathman derived it when he raised it at the debate we held in Los Angeles about ten years ago The only thing for which I might need to apologize is Anne Lee s domicile but I expect to find she can be placed very close to the Clink and the word alley comes in there somewhere I always correct misstatements Speaking of which and getting us back on topic at long last you wrote We all know that Pericles was not part of the Folio nor was Two Noble Kinsmen IN OTHER WORDS H C chose those works which were MOSTLY Shakespeare s work The other whose words these are is yourself and they speak for yourself alone H C or as Malone found on cogent grounds Ben Jonson pretending to be H C claimed they had received the copies which they were printing from the author perfect as he conceived them None of this most of this or most of that When Brian Vickers first resurrected these very old attributions the Kathman Reedy blog nearly deafened themselves with a chorus of denials Further if just once you would read a little more pensively you would find that I did not say any specific attribution was correct as a I quite accurately compared the Heminge Condell Shakspere situation to the Langley Shakespeare Gardiner situation We do not know to what extent any of them were telling the truth