The new film, Anonymous, reopens one of English literature's biggest cans of worms and answers its own question with a complete, yes, Shakespeare was a fraud "fronting for the genuine author 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 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.
Actually such is the breadth and scope of the published Shakespearean works the first anti-Stratfordians advised they must've been penned by a grouping of men. Definitely, the best education in Tudor Britain was the province of a little top-notch "men like the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh and, of course, 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 has additionally been proposed as an alternate Shakespeare, and his very own puzzling life and death only adds to the allure. 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 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 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.
Actually such is the breadth and scope of the published Shakespearean works the first anti-Stratfordians advised they must've been penned by a grouping of men. Definitely, the best education in Tudor Britain was the province of a little top-notch "men like the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh and, of course, 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 has additionally been proposed as an alternate Shakespeare, and his very own puzzling life and death only adds to the allure. 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 most people will shrug or name the hotel chain, the Devere Group. While it is a bit early to expect Britain's top melodramatic troupe to be renamed the Royal de Vere Company, Nameless will assuredly raise the Shakespeare question for the next generation. Read more about the Shakespeare Devere Scam online
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