28 Mar 2017

(511) The Shakespeare authorship controversy: a completely frozen academic Professor Jonathan Bate

Prof. Bate fulfills all criteria and tricks  (click Video1) for an Orthodox Academic Stratfordian Grandmaster or horrendous ham (actor) to discredit the actual  serious Shakespeare Authorship Problem.



 He deals with  authorship Key Questions (click Video2  50 min)  as if they were non-existent! A paid stirrup holder of the SBT?
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Jennifer Reid (introducing Prof. Jonathan Bate at the beginning of the Video by saying...)

Quote: "I am here today with Jonathan to talk about the authorship question. So we'd like to adress the question about the authorship in Person and 

                 put it to bed once and for all "


Jonathan Bate concluded the Q&A game  by saying:

Quote: "so in a way the authorship controversy emerged out of a kind of disappointment that the hard evidence of the documents didn't quite have the colour and the glamour to go with the idea that Shakespeare as the quintessential Genius

I think by the later 20th century the phenomenon, the controversy was dying away..- 


But then of course, with the advent of the Internet, it came back in a big way, because marvellous thing that the Internet is, the problem is, that there isn't  a sort of a system of independent verification where you can discover....

 ....which websites are actually based on evidence and which are based on conspiracy theory

So I am afraid it's not going to go away. But from our point of view,  from the point we feel on the basis of the evidence we have laid out, other evidence thats available in a number of books [that we'll be listing on the Course site] ...
                                 ...  the matter is settled.-


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Top-10 Dishonest Tricks: to discredit the Shakespeare authorship issue

 1 - Spelling,

 2 - Number of Candidates,

 3 - Circular reasoning,

 4 - Common-sense

  5 - Conspiracies, 

  6 - Plausibilities,

  7 - Inequation, 

  8 - Missing-second-step, 

  9 - Non-Stratfordian crackpots, 

 10 - Religion




(510) American theologian Peter Leithart and his outdated (?) knowledge on Shakespeare's authorship!

Leithart doesn‘t reveal his own opinion! What a shame! (...most plausibly a mainstream orthodox opinion....)




In 21.03.2017  Wesley Callihan discussed with  Peter Leithart the question: Did Shakespeare actually write the great Shakespeare plays?


Does Peter J. Leithart (born 1959) American author, minister, theologian and president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama have an own substantiated opinion on the Shakespeare authorship problem? 


                            

                         Is it significant that he doesn't mention Marlowe once?



(509) The Shakespeare authorship debate is not over! Rick Wagners second Episode

   Baconian Rick Wagner's second Episode.....

                               ...arguing  strongly against William of Stratford.- 

                         How strong will Rick Wagner be able to argue for Francis Bacon 
                                                 in the 3rd or 4th Episode (announced) ?

  ..is the debate only just beginning ?
why the 3rd and 4th debate 
(the critical point)
aren't arriving?
   
                                            


                                          


Baconian Rick Wagner's second Episode......
arguing strongly against William of Stratford.- 
 How strong will he be able to argue for Francis Bacon in the 3rd or 4th Episode?

(508) Wo tells us that in 1612 the author W.S. was not William Shakespeare?

As long as Stratfordians are not ready 

to accept the Marlowe / Shakespeare authorship issue 

(with the assumption that Marlowe survived and wrote under multiple Pseudonyms such as as "Shakespeare" or "Ford" )

 No progress can be expected.

Short exposé of W.S.' Funerall Elegy

 1612



(507) Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: Ros Barbers lost interest in Marlowe?

  Intrinsic Contextual Evidences 
 of  Autobiographical Aspects
  of Marlowes feigned death.


At the 2014  Shakespeare Authorship Trust (SAT) conference Ros Barber gave a lecture on the background sources Shakespeare probably  used when writing   "Measure for Measure!, (MfM) based on  arguments and counterarguments  of Georges Lampin and H.N. Gibson.

Astounding informations (similarities of names and data ) support the idea that the true Shakespeare knew about events 1582 in Paris  (The Claude Tonart Case) but under no circumstances William of Stratford.-

It is a pity and astonishing, that (former?) Marlowian Ros Barber seems more interested in some literary sources of the play than in the most impressive intrinsic contextual evidences (concerning MfM) of  autobiographical aspects of Marlowes feigned death.

(506) Shakespeare crackpot: How Keir Cutler came to learn of Mark Twains book:"Is Shakespeare dead?"

Keir Cutler stages Mark Twains book:

"Is Shakespeare dead?" 

Keir Cutler, a Canadian  actor, writer, director and scholar is taking a look back at his long period of being a believer in the "crackpot" conspiracy theory
 (i.e. Shakspeare  Stratford  did not write the Plays of Shakespeare).


Unfortunately and unexcusably Cutler  does 
not even try to take a firm view about the "true" Shakespeare

and rejects the Marlowe/Shakespeare Idea.

What a shame!







(505) The $64 question: How could Francis Meres know 14 years in advance about Draytons 'Poly-Olbion'?

Drayton, as Shakespeare, belongs to
 the multiple  pennames of  Marlowe!!

      Unbelievable, ridiculous ! -

 ....... but the most plausible solution !
       
   Francis  Meres "Palladis Tamia" (1598)       Michael Draytons "Poly-Olbion" (1612)

Excerpt in F.Meres "Palladis Tamia"


Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia, in 1598 gave details (Geographical and Hydrographicall of all the forests, woods, mountaines, fountaines, rivers, lakes flouds, bathes and springs that be in England)  of an enlish Poem in Verse called Polu-olbion by Michael Drayton.

How can it be that Meres  knew 14 years in Advance (1598) about details of the
 Poly-Olbion-Project of Michael Drayton? 

 Poly-Olbion appeared for the first time in 1612.

Michael Drayton belongs to the many  pennames of Marlowe alias the true Shakespeare!
                                                       For a detailed understanding,  see Video .-


                                         

(504) Does John Lyly (similarly to Marlowe) belong to the (pseudo)Predecessors of Shakespeare?

John Lyly

"There is a closer, fuller, more vital and more detailed connexion between the work of Lyly and Shakespeare than has hitherto been shown" (RW Bond)

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Similar to Shakspere (Stratford) it is by no means certain that a John Lyly is identical with  the author (John Lylie) of Campaspe, Sapho,  Endymion, Midas Galathea "Woman in the moon , (written in  the 15eighties, a period, when Marlowe/ Shakespeare  were  grown-up, but literary silent....)



Richard W. Bond- (1902) 
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called attention not only to some general points of practice, wherin Lyly set the example to Shakespeare, but also to great many Shakespeare parallels of phrase or idea"  ...He left" no doubt that the great majority of such  are cases of imitation, adaptation, or unconscious reminiscence by Shakespeare," which were not of "mere coincidence".-

Euphism (expression invented  by Harvey, 1589), defines a literary phenomenon  or  style of very peculiar character which had a great influence on the literature and the conversation language of the Elizabethan period in the 1580s..

The means used by Euphism  basically are to increase the emphasis. At first among them is the use  of Antithesis  (alternate hypothesis, dialectics, contraries, opposite)

K.Kneile concluded in his Dissertation 1914 on John Lyly that he  perfected the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based.  
<----His Euphues, the anatomy of wyt"” you may name  a constant great forth ongoing Antithesis. (s.Book title left)

It includes all forms, from the simplest to the most complicated. One, and more often two, three, or more words in the same sentences are parallel in position and grammatical function .

It can (and must be) stated, that Marlowe was the greatest master of the antithesis !

 He should  have had something to do with Lily?