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Hoax Shakespeare play Double Falsehood turns out to be the real McCoy
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Hoax Shakespeare play Double Falsehood turns out to be the real McCoy
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... for most of the three centuries since its debut, Double Falsehood; or, the Distrest Lovers has been ridiculed as a hoax or just disregarded.
Yesterday that changed when The Arden Shakespeare, one of the best regarded scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays, published Double Falsehood, endorsing its credentials and making it available in a fully annotated form for the first time in 250 years.
I think it's interesting that one camp believes themselves to have the ability to discern, authoritatively, the authorship of a, presumably 500
year-old work, then, on the other hand, there are still those that doubt the authorship of the "accepted" Shakespeare canon; many often alleging the
works are the product of multiple authors, if not someone different than Shakespeare.
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[edit on 3/16/2010 by Hadrian]
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[edit on 3/16/2010 by Hadrian]
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The Bacon theory has been expounded multiple times in the last couple of centuries, but I have found no real proof that he wrote all the hundreds of things that have at one time or another been ascribed to him. It's as though historians think there could only be one genius in the world in Bacon's lifetime.
It makes perfect sense to me that a man named Shakespeare was the head of a troupe of actors in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, was often the director of plays performed by his troupe, and wrote or had a hand in writing many of the plays they performed. It also makes sense that some of his plays could have been collaborations. This band of performers appeared at the Globe Theater, and sometimes at the court of Queen Elizabeth the First. He would necessarily have to be a brilliant and multi-talented man, but it is not beyond possibility.
There are, of course, the folios which ascribe the plays to someone named Shakespear (or Shakespeare) on their covers. These folios were often printed and sold concurrently with the plays' productions. As I understand it, the folios consisted of transcriptions of the "sides" possessed by individual actors and then assembled together. ("Sides" are pages that give the cues and lines of an individual part only). Sometimes the folios contained the play as remembered by a third party. Then, of course, there was probably a certain amount of rewriting and revision during the run of the play, as there inevitably is in modern plays as well. There are inconsistencies between different folios which can be explained in these ways.
What we accept as "definitive" versions of Shakespeare's plays are the work (often the guesswork) of scholars over the last five centuries.
I have no comment on whether or not Shakespeare was a Mason. (When were the Masons actually founded?) He could well have been. And he could well have been influenced by Masonic thought and symbols. The presence or absence of these symbols in these plays neither proves nor disproves Shakespeare"s authorship to me.
Actors did not enjoy a particularly high status in Elizabethan England. It's very possible he lived and died with no legacy remaining except the plays he had a hand in crafting.
The Bacon theory has been expounded multiple times in the last couple of centuries, but I have found no real proof that he wrote all the hundreds of things that have at one time or another been ascribed to him. It's as though historians think there could only be one genius in the world in Bacon's lifetime.
It makes perfect sense to me that a man named Shakespeare was the head of a troupe of actors in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, was often the director of plays performed by his troupe, and wrote or had a hand in writing many of the plays they performed. It also makes sense that some of his plays could have been collaborations. This band of performers appeared at the Globe Theater, and sometimes at the court of Queen Elizabeth the First. He would necessarily have to be a brilliant and multi-talented man, but it is not beyond possibility.
There are, of course, the folios which ascribe the plays to someone named Shakespear (or Shakespeare) on their covers. These folios were often printed and sold concurrently with the plays' productions. As I understand it, the folios consisted of transcriptions of the "sides" possessed by individual actors and then assembled together. ("Sides" are pages that give the cues and lines of an individual part only). Sometimes the folios contained the play as remembered by a third party. Then, of course, there was probably a certain amount of rewriting and revision during the run of the play, as there inevitably is in modern plays as well. There are inconsistencies between different folios which can be explained in these ways.
What we accept as "definitive" versions of Shakespeare's plays are the work (often the guesswork) of scholars over the last five centuries.
I have no comment on whether or not Shakespeare was a Mason. (When were the Masons actually founded?) He could well have been. And he could well have been influenced by Masonic thought and symbols. The presence or absence of these symbols in these plays neither proves nor disproves Shakespeare"s authorship to me.
Actors did not enjoy a particularly high status in Elizabethan England. It's very possible he lived and died with no legacy remaining except the plays he had a hand in crafting.
The authors of the works of William Shakespeare has shown he has a profound knowledge of Greek, Latin, French and European history, aswell as
knowledge of the comings and goings of several royal European courts, amidst other things..something the son of a glove maker wouldnt have.
Another thing - his works contain a vocabulary of around 29.000 different words, ten time more then where used commonly in his era.
Something relatively incredible, when you think his parents signed wth an"X", and he probably only went to local primary school, and then later to wed at 18 years old and then disappear only to return years later as an actor, of whom some critics writings still survives, but they mention nothing of his skill as a play write.
His signature on various documents are completly different in both style and wording of his surname - Shakspur, Shaxper, Shakper, and graphologists state that an analisis of the handwriting proves it is that of someone with very little schooling.
Even his last will and testament doesnt mention anything of who has the rights to and will benefit from his works, although there re some authors who put this down to the social circumstances of the times.
[edit on 17-3-2010 by andy1972]
Another thing - his works contain a vocabulary of around 29.000 different words, ten time more then where used commonly in his era.
Something relatively incredible, when you think his parents signed wth an"X", and he probably only went to local primary school, and then later to wed at 18 years old and then disappear only to return years later as an actor, of whom some critics writings still survives, but they mention nothing of his skill as a play write.
His signature on various documents are completly different in both style and wording of his surname - Shakspur, Shaxper, Shakper, and graphologists state that an analisis of the handwriting proves it is that of someone with very little schooling.
Even his last will and testament doesnt mention anything of who has the rights to and will benefit from his works, although there re some authors who put this down to the social circumstances of the times.
[edit on 17-3-2010 by andy1972]
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