Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare? Your Top Questions Answered!
Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare? Your Top Questions Answered!
In this video, I respond to the most frequently asked questions about the case for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as the author behind the pen name “William Shake-Speare”. From Mark Twain to Malcolm X, leading thinkers have long questioned the traditional biography of the author of masterpieces such as “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet”….
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😢 Will of Strafford was illiterate as no record about him at that time and all the writers were writing to each other and about each other. According to Heward Wilkinson , Jane Austen in Emma had alluded that SAQ and had the solution of it. Also in fairy queen had referred to Devere as the writers of Hamlet.
I liked your troilus and Cressida short.
Do you have anything on the winters tale? That seems like an easy one to do an Oxfordian take on.
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Academics just can’t get it through their heads that a man with only an elementary education could be one of the greatest writers in history. Takes the shine off the fancy dress and the noble prestige of the architectural grandeur of their environment.
bollocks
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I'd like to hear much more to negate the argument that De Vere died before some of the plays were written.
The Vestal Virgin
Great video, Phoebe! Hope you've been doing well. After the six minute mark, that top is top tier! One day I hope I can present my findings. Just doing alot of research. Keep going, Phoebe!
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Walter Raleigh wrote Shakespeare's works. I believe myself to be the only Raleighian in the world. If I were younger and in better health, I think I could put together a strong circumstantial case to su
Walter Raleigh wrote Shakespeare's works. I believe myself to be the only Raleighian in the world. If I were younger and in better health, I think I could put together a strong circumstantial case to spport my belief that Raleigh was the "Shakespeare." Perhaps not proof beyond reasobale doubt, but a strong circumstantial case Unfortunately, I am too old , too sick, and too poor to do the necessary reseach need to publish and artile or book, supporting my thesis.
Good work again Phoebe
The assumption that Shakespeare couldn't read or wasn't educated at the Stratford grammar school, exhibits a total lack of understanding of the nature of education at Stratford and many, many other towns where the grammar schools flourished. There are no records of the boys who were taught at the school in Stratford until long after Shakespeare's time, but we do know the masters and we know many of his contemporaries or near contemporaries whose alumni records are at Oxford. Many, in fact most, of these boys were the sons of members of the Stratford Corporation, just like John Shakespeare himself, so William also being enrolled there is more than just possible, it is most probable. The often spouted 'fact' that John was illiterate is also a sign of ignorance of the nature of the men who made up the common council of Stratford. John served as a chamberlain both on his own behalf and as an acting chamberlain at the council's specific request after his own term was expired. The chamberlains were responsible for the financial control of the town's income and expenditure and for producing and presenting these accounts annually to the council. John did this work throughout the great plague year of 1564, when he was consequently exposed to great personal risk of infection. Many other councillors made themselves scarce during this period, and John Shakespeare's efforts and courage was recognised financially and by promotion to alderman because of it: and shortly afterwards by election to the bailiwick. I admire your determination and efforts on behalf of your aristocratic hero, but this a misguided faith in de Vere, despite your appeal to the 'authority' of the examples you quote. It is of absolutely no substitute for real research.
..’s obvious..de Vere – I am that iamb..🎉
Perhaps. However, there are some inaccuracies between what happened in his plays and what actually happened. Granted perhaps it was due to the slow communications.
However, it could be that someone was feeding him the information (aka had an insider source). Either way, it makes you wonder why use Shakespeare at all (probably to protect themselves).
Will Shakespeare was an actor, therefore had to read scripts (ie. not illiterate)
"Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare?" Nobody wrote Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote PLAYS!
Great work, Phoebe!
When you just aren't smart enough to be a flat earther.
Bravissima!😊
The first question a person should ask about SAQ is "When did all of the words found in the First Folio first exist in their entirety in the English language?" The correct answer is 1611 with the publication of the bilingual dictionary Queen Anne's New World of Words which coined several thousand new words into the English language newly minted from the Italian language. I would suggest that several hundred of these new words only appeared in the dictionary and then next in 1623 and nowhere either before or after for quite some time. Mary at The Florio Channel had this dead to rights but she seems to have dropped the ball lately. Now she is doing Florio travelogues. Obviously the man with the words wrote the book using earlier versions of the plays which he likely collaborated in writing. John Florio was the unifying voice who pulled it altogether at the end as both editor and revisor of the plays. So in my opinion the SAQ is a linguistic puzzle of who and when. There is no evidence for any sole writer because it was a collaborative effort.
V. good summation of the “case for de Vere”. Personally, I’m sceptical that the Stratfordians are right; however
– isn’t it necessary to give ground on Edward de Vere being the sole author when it comes to Macbeth ? Solid evidence that that play draws on the fear of Jesuitical elements that were arrayed against King James I (who was James the VI of Scotland and something of an authority on witchcraft) – de Vere was dead by the time of the height of the “hysteria” (that’s my take as a Catholic – Anglicans would, no doubt, disagree with that word) regarding the threat posed by Jesuits to the English monarchy and Protestantism. The playwright Thomas Middleton is thought to have had a hand in Macbeth’s writing – and possibly others, too, contributed elements – as I say de Vere’s death – in 1603 – doesn’t fit well with attributing the “Scottish play” to his pen imo.
Thanks for another great video. You have summarized the authorship question (which I call a game) in a lively manner using the best quotes and important excerpts from de Vere's history to make your point.
Did you know that the latest edition of Twain's collected writings has excluded I Shakespeare Dead from the work? The long arms of the mainstream scholars have clout far exceeding their legitimacy, which is near-zero for doubters.
By the way, Looney is pronounced "looney" just as George Clooney's name is not pronounced "clone-ee". The English teacher was proud of his ancestry and in a letter told who he was writing to the real way to pronounce his name. I call him "the good doctor" for his honesty and scholarship.
Your videos are getting better and better. Thanks for spreading the word in such a superb way.
Shakespeare, through the King's Men, was essentially a courtier and received cloth to make clothes ahead of the coronation of King James. Also, London was a relatively small and gossipy place, with great networks of men and women exchanging news and ideas. Any insight Shakespeare had into the court came from some experience but mainly from second-hand insights into court reality. Beyond that, Shakespeare did what great writers do: use their considerable imaginations, which often have an uncanny ability to convey the spirit of contexts they otherwise had no access to. There is no basis for questioning the authorship based on what Shakespeare knew or could have known. It negates imagination and Shakespeare's connections and the conversational capacity of London at that time to suggest he simply could not have known about the workings of the court or any given number of other contexts he lived outside of. By this reckoning, authors cannot write convincingly about the past without being accused of using time travel: no, the imagination takes care of a great deal.
Beautifully done Phoebe, as always.
Nice one Phoebe!
This was wonderful! ❤🎉🎉
'That so did take Eliza and our James'… it's unlikely Ben would have included James in a coded eulogy, considering he was King for only 7 months before de Vere died… Jonson's 'complicity' is just too much to believe, sorry….
Phoebe, you are tireless! Thank you for another enlightening presentation. Am glad you mentioned Robert Prechter's work, which is nothing short of revolutionary. Am forever astounded by the lack of evidence supporting traditional Stratfordian claims.
Phoebe, you made Our Day ❗️ Always Looking forward to one of your insightful Videos to drop 🎉🎉🎉
Outstanding summary of the most outrageous aspects of the Shakespeare authorship investigation. I would add that virtually all the buildings owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon are made up fantasies and have no direct documentary record to Shakespeare or members of his family. The mythopoetic imperative to know the author of these plays and poems has been the best literary adventure of my life. Keep it up, Phoebe! You rock!
Case Closed.
Love your work, and you! Could you please describe and explain how the Shakespeare canon evolved, the major sources and how they evolved? Seems a relevant context for how the plays came into being. Thanks! 🌹
"William Shakespeare" started as a pen name and developed into a brand.
The man from Stratford started as a frontman and developed into a brand mascot like Ronald McDonald.
Does that make sense?
Excellent presentation, Phoebe. I would have mentioned that 'Shakespeare' (whoever he was) tells us in Sonnet #107 that he is dying: "and death to me subscribes". That line is preceded by three references to events of 1603, including the death of Queen Elizabeth. Will of Stratford lived until 1616.
Further, there is a clear reference to the successful military mission in 1579-83, of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond in the Greek Chorus opening of Act V, of Henry V. Butler's men had captured the Irish rebel Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, who had been in cahoots with the King of Spain, in November 1583. Desmond was beheaded in the field and his head sent back to London as proof that he was dead and Ormond's mission a success. Ormond himself remained in Ireland until Spring, but Shakespeare tells us he'll be returning as a conquering hero (much as Henry V did from France after the battle of Agincourt):
"Were now the general of our gracious empress,
As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,
Bringing rebellion broachèd on his sword,
How many would the peaceful city quit
To welcome him!"
Will of Stratford was a recently married 19 year old whose first child was baptized in Trinity Church, Stratford, in 1583. His twins came along in 1585. He was too young and in the wrong place to have written those Greek chorus lines. But Edward DeVere was 33 years old, an acknowledged poet-playwright who'd completed a year long trip to Italy by that time.
Great stuff Phoebe…keep up the good work! Alexander would be proud of your contributions…it's a big gap to fill for Oxfordians.
Finally someone is getting the story organized in a responsible and believable way! Excellent!
Love you videos – really interesting – thanks for posting!
Cool video, keep it up