Sunday, November 6, 2011

Devere Scam Questions

By Lisa Dawn


Where have I heard that name before?

Till just recently, it was possibly attached to the deVere Group, an enormous hotel chain. That has changed though thanks to a new movie called Anonymous, which repeats the claim that de Vere wrote all of Shakespeare's works and was also Queen Elizabeth I's bastard child and incestuous lover.

Who plays this secret genius?

Edward devere is played by Welsh star Rhys Ifans while youngster Rafe Spall is his hapless, and slaughtering drunk, of a front man. Ironically, 2 top Shakespearean actors, mummy and girl Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson tackle the role of Elizabeth, while another, Derek Jacobi provides a questionable prologue.

Didn't Shakespeare write Shakespeare's plays?

Almost all the evidence we have does indeed confirm that William Shakespeare wrote the 37 plays and lots of other works that carry his name. Unfortunately there is not much of it and it is not of good quality. At most there are six examples of his signature on record and, for a world class writer; he seemed to have plenty of difficulty spelling his name. Shakespearean scholars "most of whom hate the so-called authorship question "disagree that while there's not very much evidence in favor of William there's a lot more than there's for de Vere, because, for him, there is no.

Why do folks insist in pushing Oxford's claims?

Conspiracy theoreticians love gaps in information and Shakespeare's recorded life leaves masses of those. These are the greatest works of English literature, anti-Stratfordians argue, and couldn't possibly be authored by the child of a glove maker from a little provincial city who may "or may not "have gone to grammar college. De Vere was a published poet and wrote plays, though none survive, he was also an avid patron of the arts.

Why would anybody pretend not to have written these great plays if they'd?

Shakespeare's plays might seem dry and dusty nowadays, but in their day they touched on some very arguable subjects. Talking about the behavior of an absolute sovereign, as Shakespeare did, was a good way to lose it. Oxfordians, disagree the works were too hot for a well-known courtier to handle.

Could Shakespeare have been somebody apart from de Vere?

As soon as Shakespeare became truly popular, folk started to question such a humble man could write so much and so well. De Vere has been the latest favourite for the task, but he was predated by debatable playwright Christopher Marlowe, artistically inclined aristocrat the Sixth Earl of Derby and Renaissance man Sir Francis Bacon. Group Idea is also preferred, given the size and scope of the Shakespearean catalogue, and other names like Sir Walter Raleigh's get thrown in to the mix here.

What do Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles all have in common?

They believe Edward de Vere is likelier to have written Hamlet than William Shakespeare.




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