Yet, as viewed by many scholars who questioned Wells and Taylors document, a lot of obstacles also exist to accepting Oxford as Shakespeare. The most formidable is the fact that Oxford died in June 1604 while Shakespeare continued to write plays probably until 1613-14. According to most mainstream chronologies, as many as ten plays (as well as the Sonnets) first appeared after 1604. Oxfords supporters claim that no new play appeared between 1604 and 1608, and that no contemporary reference in any of Shakespeares plays can be dated after 1603. They also point to the celebrated, mysterious dedication of the Sonnets by T.T. (Thomas Thorpe, its publisher), which wishes all happiness and that eternity promised by our ever living poet to the enigmatic dedicatee, Mr. W.H..
Oxfordians (and others) point out that ever living was used by Elizabethans only of someone already deceased, which Oxford-unlike Shakespeare-was in 1609, when the Sonnets appeared. They claim that the plays first performed after 1604 were all written earlier and, as it were, released after Oxfords death. But is there anything that actually ties Oxford to Shakespeares plays? The Folger Library in Washington DC owns Oxfords 1579 Bible, which contains about 1,000 underlined or marked passages and forty marginal notes, apparently in the Earls handwriting. In 1992 a detailed examination of these annotations was made by Roger Stritmatter and Mark Anderson, two American Oxfordians, who found that more than a quarter of the marked passages in the Wells and Taylor work turned up as direct references in Shakespeares plays, among them more than a hundred references that had not previously been noted by Shakespearean scholars, but which are clearly or probably the sources of Shakespeares phraseology. According to Oxfordians (and to proponents of other Shakespeares), the William of Stratford was an actor, play broker, and businessman who was manifestly incapable of writing the plays attributed to him, but whose actual role was to serve as a front man and producer of the plays, lending his name to them because their real author, a nobleman or high official, could not write directly under his own name for the theatre. Hints that Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author were given at the time: for instance, the name of the alleged author appears as Shake-speare in fifteen out of thirty-three plays published before the First Folio appeared, as well as in the first publication of the Sonnets and many other references.
The Essay on William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 is a classic Shakespearian Sonnet from his distinguished collection published in 1609. The Shakespearean Sonnet is unquestionably the most intellectual and dramatic of poetic forms and, when written well, is a masterpiece not only of poetic talent but intellectual talent as well. Like the majority of sonnets, Sonnet 129 has fourteen lines and is organized into an ...
Shakespeares name was never hyphenated in any legal or commercial document clearly relating to the Stratford man, while no other Elizabethan author had his name spelled in this manner. Had the plays and poems been written anonymously, it seems likely that today Oxford would be the leading candidate for their authorship, and that no one would argue that Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays. Many suppose that the authorship question is a relic of nineteenth-century autodidactism and has been superseded by contemporary historical criticism several university courses in America now at least experiment with the proposition that Oxford wrote the plays. Balanced articles that came out in return to Oxfords edition on Complete Plays on the Shakespeare authorship question have appeared in recent years in mainstream American magazines and on American public television. A similar organized movement has grown up in Britain (headed by the Earl of Burford, a descendant of Oxford), although it has not yet wholly discarded its eccentric label, as its counterpart in America seems to have done. It also carries extracts from the works of Bacon and Shakespeare.
The Essay on Othello in Shakespeare’s play
Othello is manipulated to trust Iago rather than his wife. Iago uses fake evidence against Desdemona in an attempt to prove she is cheating on her husband. Iago uses racism and past experiences to persuade Othello into believing he is not good enough for his wife as well as her not being good enough for him. Othello choses to believe Iago over his wife for the reason that she has only her word to ...
Baconians naturally regard it as highly significant, but skeptics believe it is simply a list of works in a library, possibly, therefore, showing that Bacon was not Shakespeare. Baconians also point to one of the few contemporary sources which apparently question whether Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him, the Satires of Joseph Hall (1597-98), which apparently claim that Bacon wrote Shakespeares Venus and Adonis. Additionally, in 1985 a remarkable wall painting was discovered by workmen renovating an old inn in St Albans, where Bacon lived. Dated to about 1600, it apparently depicts the hunt scene in Shakespeares Venus and Adonis, and Baconians have also pointed out that St Albans is mentioned fifteen times in Shakespeares works, whereas Stratford never is. Had this wall painting been discovered in an old inn in Stratford-upon-Avon, it would, of course, be taken as strong evidence that Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays..
