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The Shakespearean authorship controversy would make a good Dan Brown novel, that is, if such a thing weren't logically impossible. No offense to all the Dan Brown fans out there.

People have questioned Shakespeare's identity for centuries, and the Earl of Oxford has been a popular candidate for "Shakespeare" since the 1920s, with luminaries such as Orson Welles and Sigmund Freud concluding that he was the author. However, the theory has been rejected by historians and literary theorists, who would have the best resources for making such a determination.

I find the whole Oxfordian movement to be interesting, partially because it's one of the few fringe theories where I can understand the romantic appeal of the underlying "story," even if it seems to benefit a jerky nobleman. The idea of a Great Secret is almost universally fascinating, and I do have a fondness for secret identities.

3 comments:
James Saunders says: This is a fascinating area of scholarship, with most modern-day scholars agreeing that William Shakespeare was not Shakespeare. The problem for all other candidates however, is finding a connection to the undisputed home or 'base' of the Bard. This is not a problem for the strongest candidate; Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke who was the Recorder of Stratford and who had residence down the road in Warwick Castle. He was a 1st class genius, a poet, sonneteer, statesman, soldier, sailor, Chancellor as well as many other profiles that the true 'Shakespeare' must possess. That is not to say that other fine men (or women) of the age did not play a part, but Greville is the only candidate to have claimed the title of 'the master of Shakespeare'. If this subject may be of interest, and for more information, see the website www.masterofshakespeare.com. The new book; 'The Master of Shakespeare' by A.W.L. Saunders is sure to be a hit!!
Colleen Marie says: My kids do this!! Oh, my kids so do this. They try to change the topic to avoid answering questions. But my kids at least have figured out which topics will get me going. (Why smoking is bad, for example)
Jezzi Stewart says: Actually, in my 4,307.233rd incarnation (I'm way past 10,000,000 now) I was the monkey who, out of the infinite number of monkeys at the infinite number of typewriters* wrote the works attributed to WS. * - OK, antiquated, I know, but the CAO (Celestial accounting office) balked at the cost of an infinite number of PCs, plus there was that conflict with the MAC supporters.
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