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 ideas, there's some compelling , if circumstantial proof in favor of the anti-Stratfordians, as they're known.
Surely, they disagree, a person accountable for some of the greatest works of world literature would not be such a mysterious figure. Where are the portraits, the loving tributes, and the letters? In reality just about all we all know of William Shakespeare (and even the precise spelling of his name is disputed) is that he was an actor and was involved in several court cases.
The works themselves provide further fuel for the Shakespeare doubters. Whoever wrote these eternal plays had a giant vocabulary "close on 30,000 words "and knew their way around contemporary politics, history and traditional legends. William Shakespeare's background was in no way that of an illiterate peasant, but the anti-Stratfordians ask, could the child of a glove maker really 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 most recent of the 4 main applicants for authorship to go into the ring.
Before him came Sir Francis Bacon. Fast living playwright Christopher Marlowe in addition has been proposed as an alternate Shakespeare, and his very own mysterious life and death simply adds to the attraction. William Stanley, the sixth Earl of Derby, a learned aristocrat with an interest in the theatre to match de Vere's was proposed 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 ideas, there's some compelling , if circumstantial proof in favor of the anti-Stratfordians, as they're known.
Surely, they disagree, a person accountable for some of the greatest works of world literature would not be such a mysterious figure. Where are the portraits, the loving tributes, and the letters? In reality just about all we all know of William Shakespeare (and even the precise spelling of his name is disputed) is that he was an actor and was involved in several court cases.
The works themselves provide further fuel for the Shakespeare doubters. Whoever wrote these eternal plays had a giant vocabulary "close on 30,000 words "and knew their way around contemporary politics, history and traditional legends. William Shakespeare's background was in no way that of an illiterate peasant, but the anti-Stratfordians ask, could the child of a glove maker really 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 most recent of the 4 main applicants for authorship to go into the ring.
Before him came Sir Francis Bacon. Fast living playwright Christopher Marlowe in addition has been proposed as an alternate Shakespeare, and his very own mysterious life and death simply adds to the attraction. William Stanley, the sixth Earl of Derby, a learned aristocrat with an interest in the theatre to match de Vere's was proposed 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 majority will shrug or name the hotel chain, the Devere Group. While it's a little early to expect Britain's top theatrical troupe to be renamed the Royal de Vere Company, Anonymous will undoubtedly raise the Shakespeare question for the latest generation. Read more about the Shakespeare Devere Scam online
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