Shaksper was an actor. He was quite a convenient front man for Oxford. I cannot answer all your questions because it is some years since I researched this and I have forgotten many of the details. But the best book on the subject was published only last August. It's called Shakespeare by Any Other Name, by Mark Anderson. I haven't read it yet, but it's a serious book, serious publisher, and was reviewed in the quality press. The author has a website, http://www.shakespearebyanothername.com/index.html, which may pique your interest in the whole issue. There are also some cheap used copies available on Amazon.
The case for Oxford as author is circumstantial, but the parallels between his life and the details of the plays are cumulative and in sum overwhelming. Also, it's been known for some years now that one of the few "portraits" of Shaksper, known as the Ashbourne portrait, is in fact a touched up portrait of the Earl of Oxford. This has been demonstrated scientifically and has never been refuted by the Stratfordians (those who cling to the belief that Shaksper of Stratford wrote the plays). The academic establishment refuses to take the Oxford case seriously but they are looking more and more foolish as the years go by. Their "biographies" of Shakespeare are a joke. Of course, if they were to admit that Oxford wrote the plays, or even acknowledge the possibility of such a thing, their life's work would be negated. They simply can't afford to admit they are wrong. Someone on this site mentioned Francis Bacon as the author. No way! The only serious candidate is Oxford, and Oxford wrote those plays. I have no doubt of it. --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, even if that were the case, the profession became respectable and > has been so for quite a while since. Wouldn't the Earl's descendants > have wanted to set the record straight? Wouldn't they want their own > ancestor to be known as the greatest playwright in history? And why > would the Earl have picked someone illiterate to be his frontman? > Wouldn't that have seemed sort of suspicious? > > And I'm still a bit confused as to how someone who is so illiterate all > they can do is to sign their own name, becomes interested in the > acquisition of wealth, social status and property to begin with? And > how someone this low on the social scale made his situation so > well-known that 400 years later people are still talking about it. > > Sal > > > On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:54 AM, feste37 wrote: > > > It just wasn't the thing for a nobleman to write plays for the public > > theaters, > > which were considered rather disreputable places. Writing plays was > > something lower-class people did. It was closer to a trade than an > > honorable > > profession, hence the word "playwright," as in "shipwright" and > > "wheelwright," > > that is, an artisan, a worker. > > > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Why would the Earl of Oxford not have wanted to take credit for the > > > plays? > > > > > > Sal > > > > > > > > > On Feb 26, 2006, at 9:31 AM, feste37 wrote: > > > > > > > Shakespeare's plays were in fact written by the Earl of Oxford. > > They > > > > were > > > > certainly not written by the illiterate Shaksper from Stratford, > > who > > > > could barely > > > > sign his own name and appears to have been interested only in > > the > > > > acquisition of wealth, social status and property. > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
