On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship

EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship

Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director 

On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford". 

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SECTIONS

1. 02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions
2. 11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously
3. 20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio
4. 25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or  William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr)
5. 37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction
6. 44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare Authorship 101
• Behind the Quill: Debating the Shakespeare Authorship
• Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare 
• 8 Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories
• Top 18 Reasons Why Edward de Vere (Oxford) Was Shakespeare
• Debunking the Oxfordian Claims about Shakespearean Authorship
• The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
• “Prince Tudor” Theory Began in 1932…
• Southampton and the Tudor Rose Theory
• Prince Tudor and the Sonnets
• All Is True by Mike A’Dair (Prince Tudor 2)
• Professor claims Shakespeare was Italian
• Was Shakespeare Italian?
• John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William Shakespeare
• Was Shakespeare a Believing Jew?
• The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare
• The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare
• Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two geniuses and one death date
• Shakespeare’s Irish connections
• Shakespeare Was An Irishman
• Qadhafi: Shakespeare Was an Arab Named Shaykh Zubayr
• Was Shakespeare a Woman?
• Unmasking Shakespeare
• Was Shakespeare Actually This Jewish Woman?
• Amelia Bassano: The True Shakespeare? on Snopes
• Fact check: No evidence that Aemilia Bassano wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays
• In search of Shakespeare's dark lady
• How reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle East
• Finding Shakespeare on the Skeptoid podcast
• The Shakespeare Apocalypse

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