Mark Rylance Part Two

More from former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Mark Rylance about the Shakespeare authorship controversy, including his response to the claim that those people who don't believe the man from Stratford wrote the plays are "crackpots".

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[SailingMoominmama]

Keep an open mind, and consider why did the writer of the sonnets write so often about his exile and disgrace, or why he could place so many of his plays in Italy with the correct italian customs of the time. It is, as Mark says, an interesting mystery, and check out the other signers of the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt.

[MrOSKnight]

I have a great admiration for Mark Rylance and everything he has done as an actor, but here I feel he is being gratuitously polemical. The Shakespeare authorship contention is bizarre. How a man, who had much contemporaneous acknowledgment, could have remained enigmatic for a twenty year period in the heart of Elizabethan London's dramatic scene is beyond me. It seems that Mark Rylance is clutching at the proverbial straw in the ever-deepening void of history.

[tharleyify]

@SailingMoominmama Laurence Olivier won a fist full of Oscar's. Two fist fulls of theatre award's, played every major Shakespearean role, was married to Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh & Joan Plowright all fantastic actresses & he thought all Shakespeare's play's were written by William Shakespeare. Apart from the late plays which were

collaborations. Please dont think i'm rude, but i'd need more than Mark Rylance's opinion to come down on one side or the other.

[tharleyify]

"Searching for Shakespeare"Lecture given by Michael Wood at the UCLA

 you can google it. Makes a good historical case about the Shakespeare family.

[SailingMoominmama]

No, you are not listening to what one of the best known, widely respected, award winning Shakespearean actors in the world, Mark Rylance, is saying. You run Shakespeare's Globe for ten years, play dozens of Shakespearean roles, win two Tonys, and get back to us. And learn to spell check.

[charlesmcf]

so this actor is saying "I can't understand how Shakespeare acquired all that learning in order to be able to write the plays", which gtherefore means he can't be the author. this is arrant nonsense.