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The Monument by Hank Whittemore : 0966556453 : 9780966556452 - BetterWorldBooks.com - B... - 0 views

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    "Customer Reviews * Rating Most important work on Shakespeare in a century Aug 5, 2005 (48 of 56 found this helpful) It is gratifying to read so many other reviews that agree on the importance of Hank Whittemore's latest book, The Monument, on Shakespeare's Sonnets. What Whittemore has accomplished is nothing short of breath-taking. He has achieved in the literary realm what Thomas Kuhn so excellently described for science 40 years ago: a paradigm shift, where it takes a totally fresh view, unemcumbered by the assumptions and prejudices of a given field of inquiry, to solve what are otherwise perceived in the profession to be unsolvable questions. Einstein's Special Relativity Theory, coincidentally exactly 100 years ago, is the best example of such a paradigm shift, where the only solution to the conundrums plaguing physics was Einstein's assertion that time itself was not constant, and neither was mass. The difference in the case of Whittemore's work is that despite massive evidence that Shakespeare's Sonnets remain to this day a virtually totally impenetrable enigma, very few mainstream scholars even appear to recognize this fact. I have recently read the work of the only four scholars, so far as I am aware, in the last 50 years who have published either a paraphrase of, or extended comments on, ALL 154 sonnets. They are to be commended for recognizing the importance of treating the entire sonnet sequence as a whole, but in each case, in my view, they are a miserable flop at explaining the meaning of the sonnets. What Whittemore recognized is first, that the sonnets are ONE unified, coherent, internally consistent, document. Whatever is said in one sonnet MUST relate to all the other sonnets. So long as there are (apparent) contradictions between one's interpretations of different sonnets, so long is that interpretation fatally flawed. Second, he not only agreed with many scholars that Sonnet 106 is about the death of the Queen, the pea
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The Case of the Missing First Folio by Bonner Miller Cutting with editor's note by WJ Ray - 0 views

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  • It is abundantly clear which authors have been selected to receive Lady Anne’s explicit endorsement. The problem that we will examine today is that Shakespeare’s First Folio — or anything representative of Shakespeare’s work — is missing. This surprising omission is all the more puzzling because Lady Anne Clifford was the wife of Shakespeare’s patron. Her second husband, the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, was one of the “Incomparable Paire of Brethren” to whom the First Folio was dedicated. This simple fact makes her very much an historical person of interest, especially when her excellent education and her life-long interest in literature are taken into consideration. We have here someone who is in the right place, at the right time, and with the right resume to know who Shakespeare was —or was not. We will call on her shortly to take the historical witness stand. In the words of the author of King Lear, she will testify to “who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out.” I suggest to you that Shakespeare is noticeably “out,” and this is a case of conspicuous absence not at all in keeping with the orthodox story of the beloved Bard from Stratford-on-Avon.
  • To quote Justice Stevens, “Perhaps the greatest literary genius in the country’s history...did not merit a crypt in Westminster Abbey or a eulogy penned by King James, but it does seem odd that not even a cocker spaniel or a dachshund made any noise at all when he [Shakespeare] passed from the scene.”8 As we shall soon see, the case of Lady Anne’s Great Picture is right on point; posterity is again presented with another case of what Justice Stevens calls the dog’s “deafening silence.”
  • the First Folio was ‘in press’ for almost two years
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  • At the time when the First Folio was underway, Lady Anne was still married to her first despicable husband, the Earl of Dorset, and her future husband, Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery, was still married to his first wife Susan Vere. It is well known to Oxfordians that Susan Vere was the daughter of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford from his first marriage to Anne Cecil. Countess Susan and Earl Philip had ten children; six survived to adulthood thereby becoming Lady Anne’s step-children upon their father’s remarriage to her. It is unknown if Susan Vere and Anne Clifford were close friends, but undeniably they knew each other.
  • Anne’s husband the Earl of Dorset died in 1624. Philip’s wife Susan died five years later in 1629, and soon after that his older brother Pembroke died leaving him to inherit the great Pembroke title and estates. The wealthy and available widower moved quickly to propose the marriage-merger to the wealthy and available widowed Countess of Dorset, Lady Anne Clifford. With her marriage to Montgomery (hereafter called Pembroke), Lady Anne was attached to a mind boggling collection of earldoms.
  • The absence of “Shakespeare” in Lady Anne’s "Great Picture" should be a disconcerting signal that there is something wrong with the traditional story. Therefore, I suggest we consider thoughtfully the biographer’s comment and search for an author omitted because of a “political or personal” reservation.
  • s “Shakespeare,” Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford wrote about the people he knew. Given that he was born into the aristocracy, it was the high born of the land whose pathways in life crossed his, and not often pleasantly according to orthodox historians. As Shakespeare, the “slings and arrows” that he hurled at many in the Court of Elizabeth made for such good copy, but did not endear him to his fellow peers of the land. In an article published recently in the Washington Post, Roger Stritmatter notes the “audacious liberties” taken by the author of Hamlet.33 When one considers the fact that it was flat illegal to put on the stage thinly veiled characterizations of public figures, Stritmatter asks how the dramatist responsible for Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Twelfth Night came to escape the punitive measures inflicted on other writers,
  • n stark contrast, the author of Richard II seems to have danced through the raindrops. By the next generation when Lady Anne’s triptychs were underway in the mid-1640’s, the Civil War was going strong. It was a time of violent social revolution in which both the monarchy and the aristocracy were fighting for their very survival.
  • It was a viable possibility that the works of Shakespeare could impact the outcome in this struggle. If the identity of the writer was revealed, the identities of the people would fall into place. As Mark Anderson points out, the “Shakespeare ruse” was “a subterfuge that distanced the scandalous works from its primary subjects: the queen and her powerful inner circle of advisors.”37 Many a reputation might be tarnished, perhaps beyond redemption. For an aristocracy under pressure, the Shakespeare Canon was simply not an acceptable public relations piece. When it came to “Shakespeare” and his work, it’s easy to understand the general spirit of cooperation among the aristocracy in maintaining a dignified silence.38
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  • He also noted that "158 verses and 10 Psalms marked in the de Vere Bible" had been cited by the writers on the biblical references in Shakespeare, and that "an additional 136 marked verses and notes exhibit — possibly, probably or certainly — a previously undocumented influence."
  • More recently, an old controversy has flared again over what is known as the Ashbourne portrait, which the Folger once considered a portrait of Shakespeare. In 1940, an article in Scientific American by Charles Wisner Barrell, a film specialist, argued that the Ashbourne painting was a portrait of Oxford. Using X-ray and infra- red photography, Barrell said he had found many indications that the portrait depicts Oxford, including Oxford's emblem (a boar's head) on the subject's signet ring and the monogram of the Dutch artist Cornelius Ketel, dating the portrait to around 1580.
  • Ruth Loyd Miller, who with her husband, Judge Miller in Louisiana, has kept Looney's book and other major Oxfordian works in print for decades, writes in her 1975 book, `Shakespeare' Identified: Vol. II, that Barrell found that two other paintings, formerly considered to be portraits of Shakespeare, had also been selectively painted over and that in his opinion his findings proved that both were portraits of the Earl of Oxford.
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  • Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603); or that Southampton (1573-1624) was his child by her
  • There is also some evidence that de Vere may have taken his own life, an act that would have made his legacy highly problematic at a time when severe penalties were exacted against the heirs of suicides.
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Contrary views: a debate about the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt | Shakespeare Author... - 0 views

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  • No one had any reason to doubt the Stratford man's authorship of the works during his lifetime because apparently nobody thought he wrote them in the first place!
  • “… when he died in 1616, no one seemed to notice. Not so much as a letter refers to the author's passing.”
  • Not until seven years after he died did a document appear pointing to him as the author. Nobody seems to have known who “Shakespeare” was, and most probably did not care. There is little reason to think that the author was a prominent person during his lifetime. The Stratford monument is so ambiguous that Stratford's residents had little to question. Some think it was originally erected as a monument to William's father, John Shakspere.
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  • The earliest attempt to write a biography of the Stratford man was Rowe's effort in 1709.
  • A survey instigated by the New York Times last year found that of the 265 Shakespeare professors surveyed, 17 percent were either on the fence (11%) or agreed that there is good reason to doubt that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays and poems.
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  • J. Thomas Looney, British schoolmaster and scholar, evolved the theory of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as author in his book, “Shakespeare” Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
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Oxfordian theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    The Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), wrote the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
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frontline: the shakespeare mystery: Al Austin - 0 views

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    Four hundred years after the premiere of Hamlet, the authorship question remains a mystery
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare in quarto - 0 views

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  • it is generally agreed that the play was created to celebrate a wedding in a noble household. There are two such occasions appropriate for this first performance. One is the wedding in 1595 of Elizabeth Vere, Lord Burghley’s granddaughter, to William Earl of Derby at Greenwich Palace
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      ken meece on 24 Aug 09
       
      a big hint as to who wrote the play... Elizabeth's father, Edward de Vere
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