The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real ShakespeareHarper Collins, 2009. okt. 13. - 400 oldal Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered led her to the truth behind literature's greatest mystery. For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford, a man who left school at age thirteen and apparently never traveled abroad, could have written such a broad and deep body of work, one that is said to draw on the largest vocabulary of any writer in the English language. Now, in The Truth Will Out James and history professor William D. Rubinstein explore the facts behind James's important findings, detailing how her work on the dedication led to the name Sir Henry Neville, a prominent Elizabethan diplomat whose life unlocked the secrets of the Shakespeare Authorship Question once and for all. Examining the true nature of Shakespeare of Stratford's involvement with the plays, the authors reveal the London actor to be a mere pawn, while Neville, the Oxford-educated ambassador to France and a member of Parliament for twenty-eight years, was actually the Bard. Disguising his authorship to avoid bringing scandal and shame to his family name, Neville spent a great deal of time abroad in Europe, entering a realm of aristocratic intrigue and mystery that provided the foundation for some of his greatest plays. With insightful explanations of never-before-studied documents, James and Rubinstein demonstrate that not only did the refined and worldly Neville know the landscape of Shakespeare's plays firsthand but that these works represent a total convergence of the events in Neville's life. But the evidence proving Neville's authorship is not merely circumstantial. Comparing mysterious signatures and Neville's richly woven family lineage, the authors paint a portrait of a man whose claim moves beyond the speculative. An experienced politician, who was well-versed in the intrigues of the Court, Neville was locked away in the Tower of London for his part in the unsuccessful Essex Rebellion against Queen Elizabeth. Using a collection of Neville's writings from his imprisonment, James and Rubinstein provide an exhaustive cross section of the intrigue surrounding Neville's life, exposing the events that led to his hidden writings and the cloaking of their true origin. Captivating and elucidating, The Truth Will Out is a revelatory exploration of two men and their times that will forever change the landscape of Shakespearean scholarship. |
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... Italian and Spanish which had not been translated into English, among them Belleforest's Histories Tragiques, Ser Giovanni's Il Percorone, Jorge de Montemayor's Diana and Cinthio's Epitia and Hecatommihi.9 Rather oddly, Schoenbaum ...
... Italy, which he did. His immensely detailed knowledge of Italy's famous cities and the roads between them has been repeatedly commented upon, with an impressive list of scholars expert on Italy regularly suggesting that Shakespeare must ...
... Italy . Both Sir Sidney Lee , in the revised ( 1915 ) edition of his Life of Shakespeare , and even Sir E.K. Chambers , believed that it was possible that Shakespeare visited Italy around 1592–95 , when four plays set in that country ...
... Italy , nearly all recent biographers simply ignore the question , never examining how Shakespeare could have gained so much evidently direct knowledge of the minutiae of Italy's geography , so publicly paraded in his Italianate plays ...
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The Real Shakespeare | 43 |
The Neville Heritage | 59 |
Becoming William Shakespeare 158294 | 83 |
The Road to the Top 159599 | 105 |
Ambassador to France 15991600 | 123 |
The Catastrophe 16013 | 137 |
Freedom and Disappointment 16038 | 161 |
The Last Plays the Sonnets and | 178 |
The First Folio and the Apotheosis | 202 |
Analyses and Shakespearean | 218 |
Commendatory Verses and the Three Suns | 265 |
Sir Henry Nevilles Voyage to France and Its Double | 292 |
A Review of Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty | 305 |
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The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare Brenda James,William Rubinstein Korlátozott előnézet - 2017 |
The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare Brenda James,W. D. Rubinstein Korlátozott előnézet - 2006 |