Shakespeare's work is so embedded in our culture that most of us potentially total some of his famous lines each day , but it is once again unto the breach for the supporters of an alternative Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, whose claims are pushed in a new blockbuster movie.
Unnamed reanimates a claim that was initially made in the 1920 book Shakespeare Identified, by J Thomas Looney and puts Rhys Ifans into the boots of the man who told us that all of the world's a stage.
While the de Vere family were crucial figures in Tudor London, the title Earl of Oxford fell torpid in the early 18th Century and anyone fascinated by the name today is as likely to be hunting for top hotels from the deVere Group as they are to be researching the UK nobility.
De Vere's professes to be Britain's greatest ever writer are "like those of many others who've taken the job "conditional upon William Shakespeare, actor, of Stratford upon Avon's absence of credentials for the task.
Shakespeare was not celebrated in his own time and, actually it was not till the 19th Century that he actually climbed to his current place at the very top of the literary tree.
Virtually as soon as he did, his right to sit there had been questioned. The boy of a glove maker, with no recorded education and who never spelled his name the same way twice, really couldn't have penned 37 unequalled dramatic works with a vocabulary of close on 30,000 words the debate went.
While Shakespeare was illiterate, the 17th Earl of Oxford wasn't. Placed in the household of political movers and shakers the Cecil family when his pa died, Edward de Vere had the absolute best education.
He also travelled at length in Europe, visiting the settings of one or two Shakespearean plays and moving in the highest circles on the continent. De Vere nearly didn't make it home when his ship was stopped by pirates on one jaunt.
De Vere also has the inventive credentials. He was a long-time advocate of the humanities, publishing his own poetry, writing plays and receiving 33 book dedications from thankful writers. He supported one troupe of adult actors and one of youngsters and also paid the upkeep for a band of musicians.
The Elizabethan court though was no place to hold questionable opinions though and offending her majesty was often a terminal error. This, disagree Oxford's followers, is why de Vere required a front man to hide behind. Shakespeare's plays "with their forays into comparatively fresh history and meditations on the role of sovereigns "could easily be taken the wrong way.
While there's not much documentary proof to support William Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon's makes a claim to have wrote the plays, it should be remembered that there is precisely none in favor of Oxford. It is also worth pondering whether a person whose most celebrated in his time for his ability to run up debt would turn down some extraordinarily profitable theatrical hits to his name.
Unnamed reanimates a claim that was initially made in the 1920 book Shakespeare Identified, by J Thomas Looney and puts Rhys Ifans into the boots of the man who told us that all of the world's a stage.
While the de Vere family were crucial figures in Tudor London, the title Earl of Oxford fell torpid in the early 18th Century and anyone fascinated by the name today is as likely to be hunting for top hotels from the deVere Group as they are to be researching the UK nobility.
De Vere's professes to be Britain's greatest ever writer are "like those of many others who've taken the job "conditional upon William Shakespeare, actor, of Stratford upon Avon's absence of credentials for the task.
Shakespeare was not celebrated in his own time and, actually it was not till the 19th Century that he actually climbed to his current place at the very top of the literary tree.
Virtually as soon as he did, his right to sit there had been questioned. The boy of a glove maker, with no recorded education and who never spelled his name the same way twice, really couldn't have penned 37 unequalled dramatic works with a vocabulary of close on 30,000 words the debate went.
While Shakespeare was illiterate, the 17th Earl of Oxford wasn't. Placed in the household of political movers and shakers the Cecil family when his pa died, Edward de Vere had the absolute best education.
He also travelled at length in Europe, visiting the settings of one or two Shakespearean plays and moving in the highest circles on the continent. De Vere nearly didn't make it home when his ship was stopped by pirates on one jaunt.
De Vere also has the inventive credentials. He was a long-time advocate of the humanities, publishing his own poetry, writing plays and receiving 33 book dedications from thankful writers. He supported one troupe of adult actors and one of youngsters and also paid the upkeep for a band of musicians.
The Elizabethan court though was no place to hold questionable opinions though and offending her majesty was often a terminal error. This, disagree Oxford's followers, is why de Vere required a front man to hide behind. Shakespeare's plays "with their forays into comparatively fresh history and meditations on the role of sovereigns "could easily be taken the wrong way.
While there's not much documentary proof to support William Shakespeare of Stratford upon Avon's makes a claim to have wrote the plays, it should be remembered that there is precisely none in favor of Oxford. It is also worth pondering whether a person whose most celebrated in his time for his ability to run up debt would turn down some extraordinarily profitable theatrical hits to his name.
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