http://dcentric.wamu.org/jp/shakespeare-is-the-99-percent/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dcentric.wamu.org/jp/shakespeare-is-the-99-percent/#comment-996 William Ray Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:18:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?post_type=jiffypost&p=11868#comment-996 A fine upstanding point of view no one associated with the movie 'Anonymous' would contest.  However the facts about the genesis of the Shakespeare canon and the available information about Gulielmus Shakspere of Stratford do not support his particular authorship of the Shakespeare canon.  But he did have a role as a scorned but necessary go-between to authorize the quartos' publication, so as to protect the author Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, from the taboo knowledge that he wrote for the lower orders.  Thus de Vere was ahead of his time in trusting that educating the sub-aristocratic classes could lead to a better State.  This was contrary to the governmental practices of those in power and Oxford was eaten alive by political cunning.  His plays and poems, though understood to be his in his generation, became the "works" of a non-writer with a name similar to Oxford's pseudonym, Shakespeare. I believe your teacher should start from the truth and will find that infinitely more inspiring to his students than warping history to suit the status quo.  This is what official history has done in the tragic history of Edward de Vere, the nobleman sacrificed by his class for being an artist ahead of his time.  The film 'Anonymous' tries to tell that story and the propaganda surrounding it may yet succeed in disproving Shakespeare's own poignant words, "The truth will out." A fine upstanding point of view no one associated with the movie ‘Anonymous’ would contest.  However the facts about the genesis of the Shakespeare canon and the available information about Gulielmus Shakspere of Stratford do not support his particular authorship of the Shakespeare canon.  But he did have a role as a scorned but necessary go-between to authorize the quartos’ publication, so as to protect the author Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, from the taboo knowledge that he wrote for the lower orders.  Thus de Vere was ahead of his time in trusting that educating the sub-aristocratic classes could lead to a better State.  This was contrary to the governmental practices of those in power and Oxford was eaten alive by political cunning.  His plays and poems, though understood to be his in his generation, became the “works” of a non-writer with a name similar to Oxford’s pseudonym, Shakespeare. I believe your teacher should start from the truth and will find that infinitely more inspiring to his students than warping history to suit the status quo.  This is what official history has done in the tragic history of Edward de Vere, the nobleman sacrificed by his class for being an artist ahead of his time.  The film ‘Anonymous’ tries to tell that story and the propaganda surrounding it may yet succeed in disproving Shakespeare’s own poignant words, “The truth will out.”

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