Brame/Popova: "Whoever wrote Edward de Vere’s poetry also wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems.”
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| Galina Popova |
Michael Brame [deceased 2010] , professor at the University of Washington for more than three decades, author of several books and founder of "→Linguistic Analysis" and Galina Popova, a professional linguist and affiliate professor at the University of Washington,
published 2002
→"Shakespeare's Finger-prints".
After 10 years of research into the Shakespeare authorship controversy by exploring Shakespeare's language, the two professional linguists uncovered a vast number of traits specific to the author, ("his Fingerprints") taking the investigation beyond riddles to show that the true Poet Genius adopted a range of pseudonyms (including Lily, Greene, Golding, Peele, Petowe Shakespeare, Weever, Whetstone and many others..) during his prodigious lifetime in literature, the name William Shakespeare being but one.
Up to this point, provided you accept reasonable doubts (that with the best will of the world the Stratford man cannot have been the poet genius of Hamlet or Othello), Brame/Popova's view (Shakespeare’s Fingerprints, p. 30) seems to be plausible, possible, and logic: "Once the man behind the Shakespeare pseudonym is identified, all the pieces of the larger puzzle will be seen to fall together to reveal a coherent and revealing whole: this all makes sense!
(–p.30, Shakespeare’s Fingerprints).
But
published 2002
→"Shakespeare's Finger-prints".
Up to this point, provided you accept reasonable doubts (that with the best will of the world the Stratford man cannot have been the poet genius of Hamlet or Othello), Brame/Popova's view (Shakespeare’s Fingerprints, p. 30) seems to be plausible, possible, and logic: "Once the man behind the Shakespeare pseudonym is identified, all the pieces of the larger puzzle will be seen to fall together to reveal a coherent and revealing whole: this all makes sense!
(–p.30, Shakespeare’s Fingerprints).
But
from here on unfortunately Brame/Popova seem to have gone in the wrong direction and came to a dead end. - They extended their conclusions extracted from their results ("Whoever wrote Edward de Vere’s poetry also wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems.” ) to an interpretation, that De Vere must have been the poet Genius. You have to take into consideration, that it is by no means certain whether de Vere' was the author of most of the small corpus of poetrie described to him.
Brame/Popova's motives for Edward de Veres multitude of noms de plume, in many respects remain unconvincing, yet, →Motives for Marlowe's multitude of noms de plume seem more plausible, realistic and not as fantastical as most people imagine.
