Another interesting video on the creative process from someone who has done some good research. At 3:17 he mentions that not all highly intelligent people are creative. He also makes the point at 3:26 that creativity also requires competence in addition to intelligence. We could add one more element and that is nuturing. Without being exposed to knowledge on a subject, even the most gifted among us will never solve problems associated with it. The same holds true for writers and de Vere was taught by the most accomplished scholars of his day (Sir Thomas Smith and Laurence Knowell were just 2), unlike the man from Stratford. Crider goes into this at 9:45. At 4:02, he mentions how creative people combine images in novel ways to solve problems they face. In the case of de Vere/Shakespeare, the problem was incorporating his life story into the plays because he had to conceal his identity due to stigma attached to nobles who associated with 'lowly' actors and theater people. I believe that de Vere had an eidetic memory since there are so many allusions to small details and events in his life that are clearly in the plays and poems. One poignant example is sonnet 33 in which the writer laments only holding his son for "but an hour"; de Vere had a son in the 1570s who lived only about one day. Knowing this adds depth and emotion to what many have said are merely 'exercises' in poetic form. Adding de Vere's life story to the canon gives us a real person behind the writing, not an abstraction.
A very enlightening talk, thank you so much, Sir. To add on the autonomy part, the younger de Vere already wanted more autonomy of the management of his estate away from William Cecil, hence I think de Vere ticked the box on that note as well. Very informative talk, nonetheless, thank you!
Yes, I've found a few creative geniuses with a strong sense of destiny and absolute confidence in the worth and validity of their creative efforts. But this seems quite rare and I'd like to know what studies put forth evidence for this. Whoever wrote the plays of Shakespeare clearly had a sense of tragic destiny and took great delight in their wit and imagination.
I think there is evidence, if we allow the sonnets to speak, of De Vere's sense that his work was of great worth and would prevail...although possibly not ever under his own name. That is his unique tragedy. It is quite obvious that the idea of suicide is a recurrent feature in the plays, not just Hamlet. And I think there is evidence to suggest that this is how Oxford's life ended. The greatness of his own literary abilities, and his complete inability to gain the recognition he deserved for them, would probably have eventually destroyed any genius. One thinks, inevitably, of Van Gogh.
Another interesting video on the creative process from someone who has done some good research. At 3:17 he mentions that not all highly intelligent people are creative. He also makes the point at 3:26 that creativity also requires competence in addition to intelligence. We could add one more element and that is nuturing. Without being exposed to knowledge on a subject, even the most gifted among us will never solve problems associated with it. The same holds true for writers and de Vere was taught by the most accomplished scholars of his day (Sir Thomas Smith and Laurence Knowell were just 2), unlike the man from Stratford. Crider goes into this at 9:45.
At 4:02, he mentions how creative people combine images in novel ways to solve problems they face. In the case of de Vere/Shakespeare, the problem was incorporating his life story into the plays because he had to conceal his identity due to stigma attached to nobles who associated with 'lowly' actors and theater people.
I believe that de Vere had an eidetic memory since there are so many allusions to small details and events in his life that are clearly in the plays and poems. One poignant example is sonnet 33 in which the writer laments only holding his son for "but an hour"; de Vere had a son in the 1570s who lived only about one day. Knowing this adds depth and emotion to what many have said are merely 'exercises' in poetic form. Adding de Vere's life story to the canon gives us a real person behind the writing, not an abstraction.
your last sentence says it all
A very enlightening talk, thank you so much, Sir. To add on the autonomy part, the younger de Vere already wanted more autonomy of the management of his estate away from William Cecil, hence I think de Vere ticked the box on that note as well. Very informative talk, nonetheless, thank you!
Yes, I've found a few creative geniuses with a strong sense of destiny and absolute confidence in the worth and validity of their creative efforts. But this seems quite rare and I'd like to know what studies put forth evidence for this. Whoever wrote the plays of Shakespeare clearly had a sense of tragic destiny and took great delight in their wit and imagination.
Profoundly interesting! 🤔
I think there is evidence, if we allow the sonnets to speak, of De Vere's sense that his work was of great worth and would prevail...although possibly not ever under his own name. That is his unique tragedy. It is quite obvious that the idea of suicide is a recurrent feature in the plays, not just Hamlet. And I think there is evidence to suggest that this is how Oxford's life ended. The greatness of his own literary abilities, and his complete inability to gain the recognition he deserved for them, would probably have eventually destroyed any genius. One thinks, inevitably, of Van Gogh.
chatGPT has shown me that the A.I. at UA-cam is a Stratfordian.