SHAKESPEARE's APOCRYPHA
A gigantic Abyss of Academic inability
of Reasoning in Humanities
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Pericles, a play long treated as semi-apocryphal and only reluctantly admitted into the canon. The speaker argues that Pericles demonstrates
how unstable and arbitrary the boundary between “canon” and “apocrypha” really is.
For centuries, the play Pericles was dismissed as unworthy of Shakespeare because of its perceived stylistic unevenness, only to be rehabilitated later through ad hoc theories of collaboration. The same reasoning, (the video claims), is denied to other apocryphal plays such as A Yorkshire Tragedy or The London Prodigal.
Scholars excuse weaknesses in Pericles but use similar features to exclude other works. This double standard reveals a circular logic: Shakespeare is defined by assumed excellence, and anything judged inferior must therefore be NON -Shakespearean.
The video concludes that
Pericles alone already undermines the credibility of the traditional canon-building process and exposes the methodological inconsistency at the heart of Shakespeare scholarship.
TALK / DIALOG on the Original- Video (below!)
of Shakespeares Apocraypha
ORIGINAL - VIDEO
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