What I don’t understand is why make this up? Why would whoever did write them not want the credit? Maybe the man they are attributed to stole the credit from someone else?
I have no beliefs either way, but was swayed slightly to the writer being Francis Bacon, or maybe a circle of writers. Degrees used in secret societies seem well crafted and with the passage of time, can be perfected.. Perhaps the same can happen with the Shakespeare psyop.
I believe that the plays attributed to him were simply the ones that had been honed and used for many decades, if not centuries, by acting troupes across England. He was an actor by trade. He travelled to Italy and learned the plays doing the rounds there too.
Someone, possibly the Earl of Oxford, commissioned him to write them down, in his best handwriting, to preserve them and to act as a reference point. We now had the printing press but it was expensive and someone was needed who knew them and could find friends to fill in the gaps. The different quartos are possibly evidence of the slight regional variations.
It’s a much contested view no doubt because we all like to think we had a true genius like Mozart to lay claim to but I just can’t swallow it. I believe the Sonnets may well be his alone but not the plays and especially not the Italian ones.
What I don’t understand is why make this up? Why would whoever did write them not want the credit? Maybe the man they are attributed to stole the credit from someone else?
I have no beliefs either way, but was swayed slightly to the writer being Francis Bacon, or maybe a circle of writers. Degrees used in secret societies seem well crafted and with the passage of time, can be perfected.. Perhaps the same can happen with the Shakespeare psyop.
I believe that the plays attributed to him were simply the ones that had been honed and used for many decades, if not centuries, by acting troupes across England. He was an actor by trade. He travelled to Italy and learned the plays doing the rounds there too.
Someone, possibly the Earl of Oxford, commissioned him to write them down, in his best handwriting, to preserve them and to act as a reference point. We now had the printing press but it was expensive and someone was needed who knew them and could find friends to fill in the gaps. The different quartos are possibly evidence of the slight regional variations.
It’s a much contested view no doubt because we all like to think we had a true genius like Mozart to lay claim to but I just can’t swallow it. I believe the Sonnets may well be his alone but not the plays and especially not the Italian ones.
I believe that St George's Day has been moved to 28th this year on account of some Church ruling about it being too close to Easter.
I believe he died from a surfeit of alcohol whilst celebrating his birthday with Ben Johnson.