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A natural-born nomad I'm now living in Peterborough, Ontario working at a daily newspaper. I love my career and can't wait to see where it takes me. I like to say I'm from everywhere. I've moved across the country three times in four years. I started off in Fernie, B.C., then to Calgary, a wild trip up to a freezing hell known as Fort McMurray, then it was back to Calgary before heading to Toronto and then to Picton. I recently returned to my Alberta roots when living in Medicine Hat. My favourite things in the world are the Beatles, pizza, coffee and my VW. I haven't seen my natural hair colour in 12 years and I always seem to need more shoes. I'm a journalist who specializes in absolutely everything. Before embarking on a 'real' career I was an accomplised waitress. I have a weakness for musicals, pizza, bad chick movies and 80s hair metal. Ed. note: The opinions expressed on this site are not the opinion of any of my previous or present employers.
It's no secret that many my faithful readers are smarter than me. So, to you, I pose a question - Why is it that people don't think Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays?
I've heard so many theorie about who wrote the plays that I don't remember them all, and I definitely don't remember why they say he didn't write them himself. As yet another theory to light I feel the need to know why. I hope you can help.
posted by Nicole @ 12:42 PM
3 Comments:
There was an interesting article about Shakespeare's plays being written by Sir Henry. It appeared in the Globe and Mail on October 5th (page A3).
It postulated a couple of reasons why Shakespeare might not have written the plays.
The plays describe in great detail the landscape and details of many towns and cities in Europe, yet Shakespeare never left England. The details are just too good for someone to have not travelled and seen the places with their own eyes.
The article goes on to state that the researchers (a couple of English Lit. eggheads) believe that Sir Henry's need for a "fake writer" was politically motivated.
The writer's also believe that the sequences of the plays correspond more logically to Sir Henry's own life and travels. For example, Shakespeare's plays take a decidedly sombre and dark tone in correspondance with Sir Henry's imprisonment.
As for you your question about why there are so many skeptics, who knows? I don't really know why we can't enjoy the plays and leave it at that. I suppose people do need to earn their PhDs and tenure and positing a new theory usually does the trick.
the 10 cent version?
People don't believe that a poor guy from Stratford who by all accounts ever left his own country could possibly have described with such beauty and accuracy the exotic foreign locales and cultural foibles he did.
There's nothing particularly novel about his plots - they were just re-hashed morality plays. But the decriptions? the locales?
Its sort of like if I were to write a best-selling book on thermodynamics. My critics would say "sure, the facts in the book are right and all, but there's no WAY that idiot knows all that so there's no WAY he wrote it."
Thanks for your help. And I think Pete should right a thermodynamics book, it'd be cool.
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