Shakespeare authorship question

A video we had to make for our English class. We had to explore the marlovian theory, so we decided to do it in a less boring way.

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• Shakespeare
• authorship
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[dustca100]

this is a nice video. marlowe, de vere, sidney, stanley, and even shaksper himself, may have helped with the plays in one way or the other. Sir Francis Bacon is the man one needs to focus on; if one chooses to solve the Shake-speare authorship question. the other men, and woman; can not compare to the genius of Bacon. a nice video project.

[fogbeet]

contrary to zahir13, many specific things make no practical sense at all for a rustic actor, the dedications, (many things fit de Veres like a glove),no acknowledgment at his death None; no eulogies, and none attributed to him, no written letters, no manuscripts, NO books found at all! To reiterate, what we are left with is a man with multi-faceted experience of various aspects of the world. So frankly...who's forcing theories? who's the bigots?

[morphybum]

Marlowe? Pah! As any fule kno, Shaksper was wrote by Earl of Oxford, very clever chap, who also wrote One Tjousand Years of Solitude, Satanic Verses, Koran, Bible, Do Quixote and of course Da Vinci Code.

[JesseVanDel]

haha i think these comments on our video are crazy when the whole video was scripted and this wasnt the final video of it haha!!!! wow can you belive this was 4 years ago omg!

[librarylu]

John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe owned books; why not Shakspere? They were certainly more valuable than socks.

We know de Vere was a recognized poet, playwright ("best for comedy"), a musician and composer, a patron of the arts, leaseholder on Blackfriars and a favorite at court (usually). His sister marrried Bertie who was ambassador to Denmark.There are details of his life (e.g., the "bed trick") that show up in the works.

Who else could have borrne the canopy?

[zahir13]

To answer the bit about books -- Shakespeare's will mentions his "second best bed" but nowhere mentions his best bed. The document is not an inventory of every sock and candlestick he owned.

Different lawyers looking at Shakespeare come away thinking him an amateur or thinking him an expert. Ditto politics, religion, etc. What we are left with is a very dim picture of the man from his works, although we know more about him than any other playwright of the period save one.

[librarylu]

Bigotry?

The "errors" were correct. Another "error" is about Giulio; the author knew he was a sculptor, not just a painter, and must have visited Mantua.

The knowledge of law and obscure court cases is not something that could be picked up at the Mermaid Tavern (de Vere read for it at Gray's Inn). De Vere bought books, some in Greek and Latin, while still in his teens (receipts exist) but no books are mentioned in the Stratford man's will. Some two hundred books are referenced in the plays.

[librarylu]

"The wording in the plays assumes that bodies like the moon and venus were 'heavenly spheres' ..."

I'll let someone else answer that one. Consider the Tycho Brahe connection.

tywkiwdbi . blogspot . com/2009/01/more-thoughts-re-t­ycho-brahe-and-hamlet . html

[zahir13]

Just to reiterate -- there is plenty of evidence that (1) Shakespeare was acknowledged as author of the plays during and immediately following his lifetime, and (2) The plays show errors not consistent with a University education. Against this is enormous effort to force a theory that a University-educated nobleman MUST have written those works to fit the facts. Why? Frankly, it looks like bigotry.

[zahir13]

The wording in the plays assumes that bodies like the moon and venus were "heavenly spheres" while the model at the time was of a series of spherical crystal domes which surrounded earth in which the moon, Venus, etc. were implanted.