May 19, 2015

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

 A L F R E D  R.  O R A G E (nr.53)

....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 
 (including published correspondence). –

A small selection of Shakspere Doubters [Anti-Stratfordians]:[In case of interest click corresponding Wikipedia entry)→1,   →2,   →3,   →4,   →5 ,  →6,   →7,   →8,   →9, 
→10,  →11,  →12,  →13,  →14,   →15,  →16,  →17,  →18,
→19,  →20,   →21,  →22,  →23,  →24,  →25,  →26, →27,
→28, →29,  →30,   →31,  →32,  →33,   →34,  →35, →36
→37,  →38,  →39,  →40,  →41,  →42,  →43,  →44, →45,→46,  →47,  →48,  →49,  →50,  →51,  →52,  →53,  →54,
→55,  →56,  →57,  →58,  →59,  →60,  →61,  →62,  →63,
→64,  →65, →66,  →67,  →68 .-  

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