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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... believe that Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the works attributed to him ) , it shows no signs of disappearing and , indeed , in recent years has returned with a vengeance as a subject of intense debate , especially in the United States ...
... believe that their author was an aristocrat or some other well-connected member of the Elizabethan upper classes, and debate would in all likelihood centre, and have centred for generations, on those figures like the Earl of Oxford and ...
... believe that Shakespeare was withdrawn from school at this time ; this was the belief of Nicholas Rowe . John Aubrey suggested that young Will often worked alongside his father as ' a butcher ' during his teenage years.2 — The education ...
... believe that, as a busy actor, with only a limited primary education behind him, he would have had the time and comprehension to read the weighty tomes Field's business may have included. The theory itself also contains a number of ...
... believe that the Sonnets are autobiographical and that many of the earlier ones in the sequence were addressed to Henry Wriothesley , third Earl of Southampton ( 1573–1624 ) . Southampton was a senior and powerful member of the ...
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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 |