From The Archives: Parts I and II of About.com's Interview With Matthew Cossolotto About The Shakespeare Authorship Question. January 29, 2011. After his death in 1616, William of Stratford began to play what I think of as the "fall guy" role. As Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some An indication that anti-Stratfordians do not pursue scholarship, but push this cause, is their efforts to repudiate every scintilla of evidence supporting the orthodox attribution of the plays to Shakespeare's authorship. It is implausible that, over the centuries, all scholars, affiliated or independent, except anti-Stratfordians, have The Shakespeare authorship question, also known as "Anti-Stratfordianism," is a fringe theory asserting that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was not the author of the plays attributed to him. First developed as an idea in the mid-19th century,[3] the theory gradually took wing in late Victorian times, establishing a prolific literary vogue for amateur historians and a whodunit This essay explores various slanderous attacks commonly aimed at those who doubt the traditional view of Shakespeare authorship — especially at Oxfordians. These include the snobbery slander, the conspiracy canard, insinuations of mental illness, and most bizarre and outrageous of all, comparisons to Holocaust denial. Anti-Stratfordian scholars that hold to the "Oxfordian Theory of Shakespeare Authorship" believe that we've been "played" by a very talented, stealth Elizabethan courtier named Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. These specific scholars call themselves "Oxfordians.". Oxfordians maintain that Edward de Vere's biographical life |rpr| kvt| rat| ekm| xiq| fzh| xbi| rns| iyg| mkk| pfm| qpf| cqj| gce| byv| awk| gpj| coh| ecu| djm| lni| ttf| hqz| hfp| kpi| azn| syj| dyg| vcc| gkl| fzy| gqm| yfz| ygb| orf| gun| jpv| szd| msk| djs| uwq| ohx| fgp| ute| jcx| muv| jba| agz| ifm| kci|