Here's the link to the London Daily Telegraph's publication of the official trailer for the new film 'Anonymous' which explores the theory that the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere - and not the man known as William Shakespeare - is the actual author of the great works associated with the name. I'm of the opinion that the theory is very plausible, and I'm hoping this is an excellent film. Scheduled for an autumn release, I'll be waiting to find out!
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/filmvideo/cinema-trailers/8435377/Anonymous-exclusive-trailer.html
3 comments:
Fantastic! I'm an Oxfordian theorist myself when it comes to Shakespeare. I'll be interested to see how they handle this issue... it's certainly a tricky problem, historiographically speaking.
I like what robertsonjames post on the Telegraph site says.
1) We know very little about Shakespeare's education, upbringing, reading, travel and career experiences. This makes the main premise of the alternative author theorists--that someone like THAT couldn't have written the plays--logically flawed. If we knew much more about his life and it looked insufficient to account for his literary output, there might be the rudiments of a case to answer. But we don't, so there isn't.
2) His contemporaries and even his rivals recognised that they were in the presence of a great creative talent. Several said so, including in well-known testimonials at his death. None, including his enemies, doubted that the man they knew as William Shakespeare was the author of the plays. If they had no suspicions on that score, why do long-posthumous people who never met him reckon that they know better?
Maybe Shakespeare had a direct line into the royal court but chose to protect his source.
2 articles regarding identity of Shakespeare. Both made passing scathing reference to theory that Queen E I wrote or co-wrote plays. QEI as collaborator makes perfect sense to me. Think about it.
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