Shakespeare has given a lot to the movies, but now the movies are about to pay him back with a film counseling the Bard was merely a pissed actor fronting for the genuine genius who wrote those excellent plays and sonnets, Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
The claim, which has been around since the early 20th Century, is given a fresh displaying in Roland Emmerich's new film, Unnamed.
It's going to come as a shock to millions of filmgoers when they Google the de Vere name and find not a giant of the Tudor and Jacobean stage, but the planet's largest independent financial advisers.
Most conspiracy hypotheses rely on a single central query that can't be answered acceptably, and the Shakespearean authorship squabble isn't an exception.
Who was Shakespeare? The answer might trip easily enough off our tongues now but in fact there's very little historical evidence linking the Stratford on Avon man to the 37 plays which now bear his name.
Add to this the comparatively humble origins of William Shakespeare and his frightful writing in signatures which never spell his name the same way twice and it's easy to see how doubts could be raised.
Into this historic opening step the anti-Stratfordians, as proponents of alternative authorship concepts are called have inserted up to 70 possible Shakespeares.
The most enduring claims have been made on behalf of four men. Francis Bacon was a recognized intellectual giant of the age. Playwriter Christopher Marlowe's own live-fast-die-young approach to life is soaked in hazy uncertainties of its own. The Sixth Earl of Derby and the 17th Earl of Oxford were both courtiers with a gusto for the stage.
Incognito puts forward the declarations of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and add another twist to the historic record, the Prince Tudor Concept.
There are variants of the concept, nonetheless it adds an illegitimate boy of de Vere and Elizabeth I to the mix. In one version Oxford is himself a child of Elizabeth I, some say Shakespeare was the royal bastard, others it was the Earl of Southampton.
Incognito throws many of those elements together "Shakespeare murders Marlowe as an example "and includes a starry enough cast to attract masses of attention to its claims. Rhys Ifans plays de Vere and Rafe Spall William Shakespeare. Mummy and child Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson play Elizabeth I and considering their own history as fine Shakespearean actors, could be seen to be biting the hand that has fed them.
The claim, which has been around since the early 20th Century, is given a fresh displaying in Roland Emmerich's new film, Unnamed.
It's going to come as a shock to millions of filmgoers when they Google the de Vere name and find not a giant of the Tudor and Jacobean stage, but the planet's largest independent financial advisers.
Most conspiracy hypotheses rely on a single central query that can't be answered acceptably, and the Shakespearean authorship squabble isn't an exception.
Who was Shakespeare? The answer might trip easily enough off our tongues now but in fact there's very little historical evidence linking the Stratford on Avon man to the 37 plays which now bear his name.
Add to this the comparatively humble origins of William Shakespeare and his frightful writing in signatures which never spell his name the same way twice and it's easy to see how doubts could be raised.
Into this historic opening step the anti-Stratfordians, as proponents of alternative authorship concepts are called have inserted up to 70 possible Shakespeares.
The most enduring claims have been made on behalf of four men. Francis Bacon was a recognized intellectual giant of the age. Playwriter Christopher Marlowe's own live-fast-die-young approach to life is soaked in hazy uncertainties of its own. The Sixth Earl of Derby and the 17th Earl of Oxford were both courtiers with a gusto for the stage.
Incognito puts forward the declarations of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and add another twist to the historic record, the Prince Tudor Concept.
There are variants of the concept, nonetheless it adds an illegitimate boy of de Vere and Elizabeth I to the mix. In one version Oxford is himself a child of Elizabeth I, some say Shakespeare was the royal bastard, others it was the Earl of Southampton.
Incognito throws many of those elements together "Shakespeare murders Marlowe as an example "and includes a starry enough cast to attract masses of attention to its claims. Rhys Ifans plays de Vere and Rafe Spall William Shakespeare. Mummy and child Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson play Elizabeth I and considering their own history as fine Shakespearean actors, could be seen to be biting the hand that has fed them.
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