1 Jun 2015

(162)Video Debate: Does the Shakespeare authorship matter?(part 2) Alexander Waugh ...a wishful thinking Gentleman??

The remarkable loophole of  "one per cent uncertainty"

 of Edward de Vere being the true Shakespeare. Who is mister 1%?



On April 30th, 2014 there was a debate: "Does the Authorship Question Matter?" at Ye Olde Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, London, organised by the Central London Debating Society,  [
Chair:                                 Alain English. 
Speakers: Professor           William Leahy,
 Dr Rosalind Barber, 
                                            Alexander Waugh, 
Professor Emeritus             Alan Nelson, 
Dr Duncan Salkeld.] 

Alexander Waugh  (at 27min: 39 sec) took the initiative to a question from the audience: When all this with Shakespeare did kick-off (during?) all the hundred years ... that he (wrote/didn't write?) the plays.
Waugh gave examples that it already kicked off in the lifetime of Shakspere and he reiterated his  published opinion on an early literary mentioning of Shakespeare together with the Earl of Oxford. He literally said in the debate:

" We have in 1595 a man called William Covell who identifies Edward de Vere (…) as Shakespeare by using a footnote, Shakespeare next to the words „Our de Vere ...

In Waugh's Statement, just about everything seems to go fatally wrong!- 

Waugh refers to the writing "Polimanteia"(1595-page 44/45 ) by an author identifying himself only with the initials W.C.

1) It is almost certain, that W.C. was a pseudonym, and more likely that the author (Pseudo)Name was William Clarke, specifically characterized in John Davies "The Scourge of Folly" in Epigram 143.

2) It is by no means a footnote but a Marginalia (see Faksimile above)  adding some important information to the content of the text, dealing with the works  1594 of Daniel( Delia, Rosamond, Cleopatra - Matilda), highly likely to be a pseudonym. ( Ref.)

3) The information of the Marginalia most likely is about the author of "Lucrece"(1594), sweet Shakespeare who has to be associated with "Eloquent Gaveston" (see Faksimile), and thus with Marlowe's "Edward II"(1594) and   Drayton's "The legend of Piers Gaveston"(1594) of the same year.

4) There is no association whatsoever to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, but to the University of Oxford. (Oxfordian Hank Whittemore copied this error -Blog.80) 

Polimanteia deals with the metaphor of the 3 daughters (the Universities Cambridge, Oxford and The London Lincoln Inn) written by mother England (!...take upon me Englands person and speak like a Commonwealth,   the hidden Author - Guess who!)

5) How was it possible, that Alexander Waugh reads as an anagram "Our de Vere" (see Faksimile). It must be seen as ludicrous wishful thinking.  

Waugh, Honorary President of SAC ("Oxfordian"), declared at that debate: I am 100% certain that Shakespeare didn't write it and  I am 99% certain who did it.

...what about the remarkable loophole of  1%

Who was Mister One per cent??