19 Sept 2016

(456) Anti-Stratfordians(1), Anti-Shakespeareans(2)! What's the difference? 2 is a personal attack: You are dishonorable!


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The "Academic Establishment" sooner or later will realize  that ignoring the "Shakespeare Doubters" will not make them go away.(s.Video below). Increasingly Shakespeare Academics have started to employ the term "Anti-Shakespearean"  for those who harbor  doubts about  the rationale, that the author of Hamlet is not to be separated from his context. 
Clearly the term "Anti-Shakespeareans"  is misleading and suggests that doubters dislike Shakespeare. Quite the opposite is true: they are higly interested in  the works and their writer. But also the traditional term "Anti-Stratfordian" is unnecessarily contentious. 
The more neutral term "Non-Stratfordian" is preferred-

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Frank Guenther, todays most renowned German translator of Shakespeare's works in his book "Our Shakespeare" (2014) calls  those who do not recognize the Stratford-Man as the author of Shakespeare's plays "Anti-Shakespeareans".- One can assume with some certainty that our linguistically most proficient german translator has done this deliberately to disguise its baroque falsifying polemics. By the term "Anti-Shakespeareans" someone is defamed in the first place, because he takes a stand against  Shakespeare. -
To speak out against a business man from Stratford, which had to be chosen as a masking person for life rescue of  the great poet, Günther well knows to put to a stop. Günther clearly uses  this "language imprecision"  strategically:  Only a philistine can have something against Shakespeare! Who would want to be a philistine? The clarifying term "Anti-Stratfordian" Günther fears  like the devil  the holy water in order to disguise or getting around the legitimate authorship problem, he has never tried to understand. -

We should   reject attempts to reframe “Non-Stratfordians” as “Anti-Shakespeareans.”