President of the German Shakespeare Society Prof. Tobias Döring
supports the thesis of the "Banality of the Bard"
The President of the German Shakespeare Society Prof. Tobias Döring wrote on the occasion of Roland Emmerichs Film start "Anonymus" a review in der FAZ Oktober 12, 2011 , entitled "The Banalitay of the Bard. He tried to explain the basic error of Thomas Looney (Creator of the Oxford-Theory in "Shake- speare Identified" 1920)
| Döring wrote that Thomas Looney would do a "circular reasoning" by assuming the curriculum vitae of Shakespeare's exceptional personality of the court must have served as a model for his work. Only the religious worship of Shakespeare since the 18th century had led to the authorship debate, in which only a false ("noble-bred", educated, religious excessive) Shakespeare could testify to the ("trivial") truth of Shakespeare ; But the Bard, Shakespeare, basically was a man of the "banal" middle class and therefore compatible with the man from Stratford. Dörings opinion is congruent with that of Stanley Wells, the longtime chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford. Wells expressed his opinion in a televised interview 2009 (SF1 Switzerland, second part, from min 17th) as a counterposition to Kurt Kreiler:
Why do people feel the need to question that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare? There are many reason for it, one is snobbery. I think that would mean that people would have preferred to believe that these great works were written by an aristocrat rather than by a person of fairly humble origin in Stratford ".
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