Much Ado About Something
Mike Rubbo: [For Stratfordian Academics ]: " To debate the authorship question, ...is dangerous ....is a real problem, they won't end up with a new position.
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The Australian filmmaker Mike Rubbo spent 4-5 years of his life making the film. "Much Ado About Something.-
(Original airdate: January 2, 2003.) He felt that the authorship question must not be surrendered to the Stratfordians and those who would dismiss it as the province of conspiracy theorists. - Stratfordians claim that the authorship question is a distraction from what really matters about Shakespeare, namely, the plays and poems..-
Rubbo disagrees with this opinion.-
From an Interview with Mike Rubbo :
Rubbo: I have not met people [who are willing to live with the doubt and the mystery]. I have been travelling with the film and I cannot get the academics to come to my screenings. With one or two exceptions, they will not come. They don't want to engage in debate. Or if they do come -- I've also had public screenings in theaters, and I'm there after every screening to take questions -- they do not identify themselves.
(...)It is a problem. To debate the authorship question, you have to study it. And for the Stratfordians this is both dangerous and a waste of time. To give it the time, of course, is to acknowledge that it has some worth. And to what end? What does it get them? The problem for them, and it's a real problem, is
(Original airdate: January 2, 2003.) He felt that the authorship question must not be surrendered to the Stratfordians and those who would dismiss it as the province of conspiracy theorists. - Stratfordians claim that the authorship question is a distraction from what really matters about Shakespeare, namely, the plays and poems..-
Rubbo disagrees with this opinion.-
From an Interview with Mike Rubbo :
Rubbo: I have not met people [who are willing to live with the doubt and the mystery]. I have been travelling with the film and I cannot get the academics to come to my screenings. With one or two exceptions, they will not come. They don't want to engage in debate. Or if they do come -- I've also had public screenings in theaters, and I'm there after every screening to take questions -- they do not identify themselves.
(...)It is a problem. To debate the authorship question, you have to study it. And for the Stratfordians this is both dangerous and a waste of time. To give it the time, of course, is to acknowledge that it has some worth. And to what end? What does it get them? The problem for them, and it's a real problem, is
they won't end up with a new position.
Frontline: MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING
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