19 May 2015

(149) A.R. Orage: an early, independent "Non-Stratfordian"

 ....who developed his own theory




nr 53 Alfred Orage


Alfred Richard Orage →(1873 - 1934) was a British intellectual with a broad spectrum of socio-cultural interests. (1 2). He became known as the owner and editor of the magazine "→ The New Age"(1907-1924). His books on Nietzsche represented the first systematic introduction of Nietzsche's body of thought (3, 4) in the English language. Bernard Shaw described him as  "the most brilliant editor  that England had produced for a hundred years, " T.S.Eliot: "The finest critical intelligence of our day "

In his weekly column 1 "Readers and Writers" (initials R.H.C) of "The New Age" , Orage dealt with a number of current issues, among others, time and again with the Shakespeare authorship question (1916-1922). Here, one sees in Orage an early, independent and autonomous "Anti-Stradfordian", who developed his own theory after the down swinging of "Shakespeare - Bacon" hype and before the advent  the Oxford Theory by Thomas Looney.

Orage saw in the theatre actor-manager Shakespeare (Stratford ) the "Super-Editor", to whom the true poetic genius, whose name had not yet been identified, presented his work on the revision. 

---Orage disagreed with the emerging Oxford Theory (1920) (including published correspondence). –

A small selection of Shakspere Doubters [Anti-Stratfordians]:[In case of interest click corresponding Wikipedia entry)1,   2,   3,   4,   56,   7,   8,   9
10,  11121314,   1516,  1718,
19,  20,   21222324252627,
2829,  30,   31,  32,  33,   34,  3536
3738394041,  42434445,464748495051525354,
555657585960616263,
6465666768 .-