The new film, Incognito, re-opens one of English literature's largest cans of worms and answers its own query with a thorough, yes, Shakespeare was a fraud "fronting for the real writer of those 37 masterpieces, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
The mystery of the real William Shakespeare has rumbled along since the middle of the 19th Century, when questions were first raised as to how a humble actor from unsung Stratford on Avon could produce such a great body of universally acknowledged genius and yet leave so few marks on the historic record.
In the way of most conspiracy theories, there is some imperative if unproven evidence in favour of the anti-Stratfordians, as they are known.
Certainly, they argue, a man responsible for some of the best works of world literature wouldn't be such a confusing figure. Where are the portraits, the loving tributes, and the letters? In fact , pretty much all we know of William Shakespeare (and even the exact spelling of his name is disputed) is that he was an actor and was concerned in 1 or 2 court cases.
The works themselves provide further fuel for the Shakespeare doubters. Whoever wrote these timeless plays had an enormous vocabulary "close on 30,000 words "and knew their way around latest politics, history and ancient myths. William Shakespeare's background was in no fashion that of an illiterate peasant, but the anti-Stratfordians ask, could the boy of a glove maker actually become one of the most learned men of his age.
In fact , such is the breadth and reach of the made public Shakespearean works that the first anti-Stratfordians recommended they could have been created by a group of men. Certainly, the most highly regarded education in Tudor England was the province of a small elect "men like the thinker Sir Francis Bacon, daredevil Sir Walter Raleigh and, naturally, Edward de Vere.
De Vere was the latest of the four main candidates for authorship to enter the ring.
Before him came Sir Francis Bacon. Fast living playwriter Christopher Marlowe has also been suggested as an alternative Shakespeare, and his own confusing life and death will only add to the draw. William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby, a learned nobleman with an interest in the theatre to match de Vere's was suggested in 1891.
http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/Edward de Vere was put into the frame in J. Thomas Looney's 1920 book, Shakespeare Identified.
The mystery of the real William Shakespeare has rumbled along since the middle of the 19th Century, when questions were first raised as to how a humble actor from unsung Stratford on Avon could produce such a great body of universally acknowledged genius and yet leave so few marks on the historic record.
In the way of most conspiracy theories, there is some imperative if unproven evidence in favour of the anti-Stratfordians, as they are known.
Certainly, they argue, a man responsible for some of the best works of world literature wouldn't be such a confusing figure. Where are the portraits, the loving tributes, and the letters? In fact , pretty much all we know of William Shakespeare (and even the exact spelling of his name is disputed) is that he was an actor and was concerned in 1 or 2 court cases.
The works themselves provide further fuel for the Shakespeare doubters. Whoever wrote these timeless plays had an enormous vocabulary "close on 30,000 words "and knew their way around latest politics, history and ancient myths. William Shakespeare's background was in no fashion that of an illiterate peasant, but the anti-Stratfordians ask, could the boy of a glove maker actually become one of the most learned men of his age.
In fact , such is the breadth and reach of the made public Shakespearean works that the first anti-Stratfordians recommended they could have been created by a group of men. Certainly, the most highly regarded education in Tudor England was the province of a small elect "men like the thinker Sir Francis Bacon, daredevil Sir Walter Raleigh and, naturally, Edward de Vere.
De Vere was the latest of the four main candidates for authorship to enter the ring.
Before him came Sir Francis Bacon. Fast living playwriter Christopher Marlowe has also been suggested as an alternative Shakespeare, and his own confusing life and death will only add to the draw. William Stanley, the 6th Earl of Derby, a learned nobleman with an interest in the theatre to match de Vere's was suggested in 1891.
http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/Edward de Vere was put into the frame in J. Thomas Looney's 1920 book, Shakespeare Identified.
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But Shakespeare still holds the field: ask about de Vere and the general public will shrug or name the hotel chain, the Devere Group. While it's a little early to expect Britain's top dramatic troupe to be renamed the Royal de Vere Company, Incognito will without doubt raise the Shakespeare query for a new generation. Read more about the Shakespeare Devere Scam online
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