Response Video: The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy!

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  • Опубліковано 9 лис 2024

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  • @Drewsmodels
    @Drewsmodels Місяць тому +6

    I started reading his History of England series recently and I absolutely love it! Ackroyd is a wonderful story-teller and writer. He makes history so interesting and entertaining. Shame on the curmudgeons who think he is too lowbrow.

  • @DavidWiley7
    @DavidWiley7 Місяць тому

    Goodness, this reminds me that I really need to delve into this topic! I have nothing on it, and I ought to correct that on my Kindle sometime!

  • @thomashefferon9711
    @thomashefferon9711 Місяць тому +2

    The testimony of Ben Jonson, Heminges, and Condell have always been good enough for me. Did Shakespeare really have to know this stuff or did he just have to know who to ask, or who to borrow Holingshed or Plutarch from? I have an image of Ben Jonson or the like feeding Will information over malmsey and Will hustling back to his place to apply the honey-tongue. Any writer worth his salt knows how to make a little knowledge look like a lot.

    • @markkrol545
      @markkrol545 Місяць тому

      Edward de Vere, wrote terrible poetry under his name and genius plays and poetry under the name of the biggest moron of that era William Shakespeare. Conspiracy theories convert an ordinary person into a quasi-god. You shoot into the stars in an instant and acquire top dog status amongst your peers. Peter Ackroyd wrote books for the local fish and chips shops, while the extraordinary ones bask in the celestial light emitted by the Earl of Oxford. And remember Will was also illiterate. How they got him to play the ghost in Hamlet is any one's guess?

  • @watermelonmanied
    @watermelonmanied Місяць тому +2

    Th inimitable Alexander Waugh sadly died this year. He was wonderful on the Authorship Controversy; an Oxfordian.

  • @zitrandy
    @zitrandy Місяць тому

    What do ya mean, "straight?!"

  • @pandittroublejr
    @pandittroublejr Місяць тому +1

    👍🏾

  • @EmoBearRights
    @EmoBearRights Місяць тому +1

    I'm kinda of a written by committee headed by Bacon person but Marlowe is possible. I don't think it matters. The person who wrote Anoymous doesn't have a clue though Elizabeth couldn't have concealed one pregnancy at the time let alone two - anyone who thinks that knows squat about Elizabethan or Tudor England. I'm an Ackroyd fan.

    • @PhilipBaltimore-xi7du
      @PhilipBaltimore-xi7du Місяць тому

      WRONG!
      I myself am of the "group theory" headed by deVere with Bacon in a helping role - possibly getting the folio published - which would explain the cryptograms.
      Donnelly was better than I expected on bacon - but there is too much of deVere in the plays, and too much circumstantial evidence.

  • @JasonHarrigan
    @JasonHarrigan Місяць тому

    “Hawksmoor” and “The House of Doctor Dee” are two great books by Ackroyd.

  • @dreamofempire2114
    @dreamofempire2114 Місяць тому

    I think that this week Joe has been in a funk after not being considered for a fairly low grade entry level job at Hull City Council and as he admitted, that has cast a bit of a shadow over his current reading practice. I have read Peter Ackroyd’s novel, The Clerkenwell Tales, and also his series of books about English history and found them all to be very enjoyable reads.

  • @PhilipBaltimore-xi7du
    @PhilipBaltimore-xi7du Місяць тому

    Steve - you're my hero for your ability to read a book a day and your "starter kit" suggestions, but you need to up your game on the "Shakespeare authorship question". Maybe something new like "the living record" by hank whittemore.
    Something new
    We've read "the mysterious mr. Shakespeare" already!

  • @battybibliophile-Clare
    @battybibliophile-Clare Місяць тому

    I think Ackroyd is a fine writer, but even Schoenbaum, who had access to most archives, admits that lots of records either didn't exist in Shakespeare's era, for example birth certificates, or have disappeared. I think his grammar school lost its attendance records in a fire. Ackroyd's Dickens is my second favourite Dickens biography. Anyway, Joe is right, but wrong about Ackroyd in general.

  • @heathergregg9975
    @heathergregg9975 Місяць тому

    "The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy" sorted in an 11 minutes?