(219) The Shakespeare Underground Podcast ?

J E N N I F E R   N E W T O N

Oxfordian Jennifer Newton, SOF Webmaster and Media consultant , has organized                      a live video webcast project for her website "Shakespeare Underground"         together  with Michael Delahoyde,  Assoc.Prof., temporary employee of the Department of English at Washington State University. -  On three evenings in November 2014 (6, 13, and 20) live video webcasts had real-time discussion via chat and a Q&A session for a live, interactive exploration into Shakespeare Questions. The first evening Nov.6. "The Shakespeare Hoax"   dealt with the  ( 9:00pm EST/6:00 pm PST)   announced as : “The Shakespeare Hoax” lays out the authorship problem, demonstrating, with emphasis  on visual materials,   why Shakspere is not Shakespeare. The class proceeds into the history of attempts to explain the countless oddities and  irreconcilable facts with recourse to putting forth other more qualified candidates who might have used the pen-name “Shake-speare.”  And no cheesy “maybe we’ll never know” or “what does it really matter” will let anyone off the hook finally. -----------------------------------------

(218) The Famous Victories, Shakespeare's Henry V ...and the Marlowe Deptford episode..... all just accidental?

 HENRY  V  PLAYS of  S H A K E S P E A RE

 (Q1 - Q3, FF) 

 relate to the anonymous play

       „The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth"  ?

Shakespeare's Play »The Life of Henry the Fifth« (L H V  -  First Folio) first appeared 1600 as Quarto »The Chronicle History of Henry The Fift«  (CHF Q1[1600], Q2[1602] Q3[1608/1619])  - The Quarto Versions were only of half the length of the FF Version (1623). -

Up to now experts are in need of clarification, how these plays relate to the anonymous play „The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth"  (V H F-  registered within the year following Marlowe's disappearance 1594, but printed only in 1598 s.Faksimile above))

It would be too staggering a coincidence, if at the beginning of V H F the news for a little town  of Deptford is given to King Henry V. by Sir John Oldcastle [later Falstaff]........-->

The famous Victories of Henry the Fifth - VHF)1598, Act I/1

Hen.V: .......whereabouts are we?
Tom:   My Lord, we are now about a mile off London
Hen.V [enters Iockey [Sir John Oldcastle]:
            how now Iockey what newes with thee?
Iockey: Faith my Lord, such newes as passeth,
            For the Town of Detford is risen,
            With hue and crie after your man,
            Which parted from us the last night
Hen V: Sownes, the vilaine that was wont to spie
             Out our booties.
Jockey:  I my Lord, euen the very same.
Hen. V Now base minded rascal to rob a poore carrier,
             Wel it skils not, ile saue the base vilaines life:
             I, I may: .....

Are the phrases  ( :  "about a mile off London", "such newes as passeth for the town of Deptford"…“a man, with hue and crie parted from us the last night," .."he that was wont to spie out our booties", ...  the king: I le  save his life: I, I may...)

...really purely accidental and bear no  "autobiographical" relation to Marlowe's final disappearance at Deptford?  

Doesn’t the author of V H F wants to reveal us that he is alive, that he was not murdered, that the crown saved his live, that he is the (hidden) author of [all] the Henry plays etc.…..

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Isn't that a yet unnoticed "smoking gun" 

for the Shakespeare authorship solution (Marlowe alias Shakespeare?)

(217) 3 plays (and 2 authors?) with Henry V - Shakespeare a plagiarist?

T H E    P R O B L E M S

with the Henry V plays

1     FVH

2 CHV

3 LHV

1.  The Famous Victories  1594(1598)  of  Henry V (F V H)    [A n o n y m u s]

2.  Q1 1600 The Chronicle History    of  Henry V (C H V)      [S h a k e s p e a r e]        

3.  FF 1623 The Life of   Henry V (L H V)                                [S h a ke  s p e a r e]

                                                                                                                      

3 Shakespeare's Folio play "The Life of Henry the Fift (LHV-1623 FF)" first appeared as a much

2 smaller Quarto "The Chronicle History of Henry V (C H V-1600- Q1).

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Prof. Bate in his Shakespeare MOOC course 2014 (lesson 4) dealt with "The War play Henry V". He explained how L H V relates to the play "The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth" (FVH-1598), a play of an anonymous author registered 1594 in the Stationers' Register (within the year of Marlowe's disappearance) but printed only 4 years later. (Prof.Bate:"...to be honest, [FVH] its not very good"! )

V H F bears distinctive similarities to L H V concerning title, title emblem and design, 15 plot elements have been identified that occur in both the anonymous play V H F and in the Henry trilogy. (Bate: "...Shakespeare later in the 1590ies set about reworking the story of F V H". How does Bate know?)

Leaving aside a closer relationship between FVH and L H V   Prof. Bate should have given us a more plausible explanation...--->

--> a) Why Shakespeare was such a plagiarist and has "stolen" title, emblem and design from the unnamed author of FVH, 

--> b) Who may have been the anonymous author 1594 of FVH and 

--> c) when the extensive Changes, Additions and Augmentations of LHV 

    (compared to Q1 Q2 Q3 in CHV) were made?

Isn't there a better, simpler and more coherent theory for this bizzare and strange situation of 

FVH,   C H V and   L H V ,

clearly related to the Authorship Problem?

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(216) Shakespeare's arrival in London in the Armada year 1588! how to indoctrinate 1000 MOOC participants?

THE  LEGAL  CASE

 over a dispute about a little "Armada" 

of 86 acres in Wilmcote.

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In his „Shakespeare MOOC course 2014 in lesson 4 - 4  Prof. Jonathan Bate's linkage on "„Henry V"  (subconsciously delusive) is difficult to accept, and it seems paradigmatical for the maintenance of  the Shakespeare myth by academic experts.

In connection with the Armada year 1588 Prof. Bate literally teaches „  …that’s to say that Shakespeare’s England was at war from the moment he [Shakspeare] arrived in London in 1588, to the moment in 1603 , when Queen Elisabeth died.
 

Such a sentence implies for a beginner that Shakespeare arrived and  lived in London since 1588. But the source for this claim is a document of a legal case before the  Court Queens bench in London 1588 acted through an attorney, in which William Shakspeare was named, with his parents, in a legal action against a neighbour called John Lambert.

 The case was over a dispute about a little  "Armada" of  86 acres  in Wilmcote., about 3 miles  north of Stratford-upon-Avon.

There is no proof of evidence whatsoever, that Shakspeare (Stratford)  had arrived in London 1588....

(215) Michael York reflecting on Shakespeare : Are we better off if we know who he was....?

M I C H A E L   Y O R K 

.....we are better off, if our understanding and our knowledge is broadened ...

Big Think is an Internet Forum featuring interviews, multimedia presentations and discussions from a wide range of fields. - In a Youtube video of Big Think the british actor Michael_York was reflecting on William Shakespeare's genius.

The last question to him was:

"What do you make of Shakespeare's true identity?"

Michael York began   with a counter-question: 
"
"Are we better off if we know exactly who Shakespeare was?   Are we to accept the Stratfordian Candidate .- For my money it is a little unlikely.- "

"He is a man who could barely write his name, whose wife is illiterate, with  no books,....it seems that the William Shaksper of Warwickshire is not the brilliant genius, the Willim Shake-speare  Elisabethan give away for pseudoname , who wrote these plays...
...my own feelings as a candidate the Earl of Oxford  Edward de Vere is  highly plausible  ... but the smoking gun that will link him ......   .... Are we better off knowing who he is , or are we just well off  just having what he wrote"

...I think ......we are better off, if our understanding and our knowledge is broadened ....it regularly increases and intensifies the experience and enjoyment of art...

Youtube video

(214) A Funerall Elegye (1612): Why an ever-lasting debate about its author....

.A FUNERALL   ELEGY  (1)

..a never-beginning debate about its meaning?

The ->Shakespeare-Marlowe Authorship Thesis in a short formula states:  For reasons both of life saving and safety the most renowne - according to the law- deadly threatened London playwright Christopher Marlowe obeyed the crown to feign his death, to abandon his identity and name, living in anonymity, and take pen-names  [such as Shakespeare from the paid businessman William Shakspere from Stratford as one of his future poet and dramatist names,  yet using many additional pseudo-names from the very beginning .. What is to be said against the assumption, that in „The Funeral Elegy (1612)“ the true author [alias W.S. William Shakespeare?] / John Ford (s.also->Blog 55) describes allegorically his own fate (concealing it behind a murther of Mr.William Peter, stabbed in the head some weeks before, corresponding to  the circulating death rumours of Marlowe...) Please read the full unabridged text (5 pages.-Click below! Not unstrenuous!) of the Funeral Elegy  by W.S., (if the superficial rhyme structure of the text is removed, it looks now like a prose text- (emphasis yellow, bold text, texts in bracket not in the original!)

Do you see a way out of the compelling assumption, that the

 specifics of this  elegy do not mirror  totally unknown William Peter of Whipton but the fate of Christopher Marlowe ?

(perhaps the Video is better suited to clarify it ....

The Funeral Elegy - Text click

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Video Talk  / DIALOG 

on the ORIGINAL VIDEO  below

O R I G I N A L  TALK/ DIALOG

Click also Blog 364

(212) The Merry Wives of Windsor: Fallstaff, Ford, Brook Broom, Shakespeare-

RICHARD   B R O M E  --  JOHN   F O R D

any coherence between these names ? 

                                         Richard Brome                                                                    John Ford

In Shakespeare's -> „The Merry Wives of Windsor“ (Q1/Q2) Master Ford, jealous of Sir John -> Fallstaff, calls himself  "Brooke" when disguised. In the First Folio (1623) the name Brook astonishingly was changed  to „Broom“.

In the epistle to his „Five New Playes 1653“ by ->Richard Brom (sometimes Broome) a certain A.Brome (his brother?) writes: „… tis not Money, for then I should loose my labour; Tis not praise, for the Author bid me tell you, that, now he [Brome] is dead, he is of Falstaffs minde, and cares not for Honour.

The Author ->John Ford (1606) dedicates his „Honor Triumphant“ to the „Honor of all Fair ladies, saying in the dedication:" I will be an alien to mine owne issue: as unworthy to be christined for mine, since dis-esteeming in beeing mine" and tells about himself in "Christ[opher]es Bloodie Sweat or the Sonne of God in his Agonie" 

(I liv'd the subject of both scorne and shame, banish't from mirth, of comfort all deprived, horrors of scandall...and 
as I lived, I died alive....disgrace upon my name, imprison'd and opprest ...uncertaine where to lead me to my bed...

Is this alle mere coincidence? 

Or shouldn‘ t one look for  any  coherence  between the texts and name of a disguised „Broom“,  between „Falstaff“ ,  „Shakespeare“ and „ Ford“? (s.also ->.Blog 55)

It immediately would make sense, when accepting , that these names were "Pen-names" or "Pseudo-names"  and the texts  always representing biographic  aspects of the same. 

what do you should  know about Ford

V I D E O   JOHN  F O R D