Author | : John Casson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1445654679 |
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?
Author | : John Casson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1445654679 |
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?
Author | : Brenda James |
Publisher | : Cranesmere Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Shakespeare historian Brenda James reveals that the true author of the Bard's works is Sir Henry Neville. This work outlines her investigation that unravels the mysteries behind the sonnets and explains some of the most obscure references in the plays.
Author | : Brenda James |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315288591 |
The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare’s life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How could a man who left school at the age of 13, and apparently never travelled abroad have authored the incomparable Sonnets or so intricately described Renaissance Venice? Shakespeare ‘candidates’ abound, among them Sir Francis Bacon, The Earl of Oxford, even Queen Elizabeth I herself, but none have stood up to serious scrutiny. Until now.... This remarkable, intriguing, and provocative book offers a completely plausible new candidate; Sir Henry Neville.
Author | : Brenda James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2011-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780956949509 |
As part of a routine research project, Brenda James applied a 16th century code-breaking technique to a small passage of Shakespeare's writing. What she discovered will stun the literary world. She discovered the true identity of the man who wrote Shakespeare's works.
Author | : Mark Bradbeer |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476618372 |
Shakspere's history plays are more than dramatized history lessons. They explore contemporary dangers inherent in royal succession at a time when Elizabeth I decreed that mere discussion of who would inherit the throne was treason. The plays were political and therefore dangerous. Yet William Shakspere from Stratford-upon-Avon was never arrested for his writing nor spent time in prison, unlike his fellow playwrights Marlowe, Kyd and Jonson. In 1601 Sir Henry Neville was imprisoned and "Shakespeare" stopped writing history plays. The identification of Neville as an authorship candidate, put forward by James and Rubinstein (2005), urges reinterpretation of the plays. Neville enjoyed privileged access to the Holinshed Chronicles (1587), a primary source for the plays. He was ambassador to France and spoke French (see Henry V), knew the descendants of Jack Cade (Henry VI Part 2), was familiar with Crosby Place (Richard III) and lived in Blackfriars (Henry VIII). This book reveals new evidence of Neville's authorship, with examples of annotation found in books from Neville's library suggesting they were source material for the plays. Numerous anomalies in the plays indicate Shakespeare's consistent bias in portraying the Nevilles in a positive light, revealing the hidden author's political viewpoint and true identity.
Author | : James Shapiro |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416541632 |
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author | : Charles Beauclerk |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802197140 |
“A book for anyone who loves Shakespeare . . . One of the most scandalous and potentially revolutionary theories about the authorship of these immortal works.” —Mark Rylance, First Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was William Shakespeare? Critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, he argues, we would see them for what they are—shocking political works written by a court insider, someone with the monarch’s indulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author’s identity was quickly swept under the rug after his death. The official history—of an uneducated merchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen married to her country—dominated for centuries. Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” “Beauclerk’s learned, deep scholarship, compelling research, engaging style and convincing interpretation won me completely. He has made me view the whole Elizabethan world afresh. The plays glow with new life, exciting and real, infused with the soul of a man too long denied his inheritance.” —Sir Derek Jacobi