MacGeregors Shakspere's
rustless myth of his (in)glorious world?
#Around the turn of 2013/14 Mac
Gregor's book "Shakespeare's Restless World" was broadcasted in Radio Bavaria 2 as an eleven-day program.
The omission of the subtitle in the German book version ( Beck -Verlag 2013) "An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects" reinforces the insincerity of the radio show, deceiving the ignorant, he would expand his own knowledge of the the greatest poet and playwright William Shakespeare, but that's not the case : The name Shakespeare was only "promotional " (apparently for the occasion of the upcoming 450 -year anniversary in April 2014) and misused as a "hanger" of the book.
The author Mac Gregor isn't searching for the person Shakespeare and his immense implausibilities , for today's knowledge , for solving reasonable doubts and for the current state of Research. From the "restless inner world " of the Stratford man you will learn nothing substantial !
Part 02/11 [German] (28. 12. 2013) " The Stratford Goblet" Podcast (now unavailable)
Episode 2 is exemplified by a silver chalice , which was kept in the parish church in Stratford- upon- Avon. It has absolutely nothing to do with Shakespeare, because such a communion chalice was placed in all churches of England as an expression of the end of Catholicism . Those who drank from this cup, confessed publicly to Protestantism and proved himself to be a loyal subject of the Queen. For this object of a goblet to build a specific bridge to the poetic genius of Shakespeare has something bizarre....
...consider the following sentences Short excerpt (Radio Bayern 2) Translation from German
soft Rebel .... gentle skillful businessman , hack writer of the aristocracy, every era has designed a different picture of William Shakespeare .... the interpretions were according to the prevailing zeitgeist ... all of the terms used are not based on reliable biographical data ... .1570 ... things were going for John Shakespeare [ Shakepeare's father ] progressively worse and he was having trouble because of prohibited transactions and usury . In 1580 he mortgaged his land , finally had to sell , and he was last detained even for debt ; 1586 he lost his seat in the city council because for aalready 10 years he did no longer appear ... the descent continued. John Shakespeare in 1592 was one of the 9 recusants of the city, the men stayed away from the God Allows . John feared for his debts to be arrested as soon as he appeared in public. The changing fate of his family could explain the circumspection with which [ William ] Shakespeare drove forward his own career . When he had , however, made his fortune , he invested in his hometown in real estate , bought the 2nd largest house in Stratford ....
... if this was really so, could father John Shakespeare ever even afford the school fees for his son? ...
Even without Shakespeare's existence the observed object, the silver communion chalice, (as well as most other observed objects) would have possessed the same historical importance or unimportance ....
Was that really Shakespeare's Restless World ? or Shakspere's rustless myth of his (in)glorious world?
