SHAKESPEARE WROTE SHAKESPEARE – DUH!
Monday, 09 January 2012 16:58
Getting asked about “Anonymous” a lot lately – a feature film that presents a conspiracy theory that the works of Shakespeare were secretly written by an earl named Edward de Vere. Seems the earl, as the theory goes, wished to remain anonymous for his own reasons and brought in some guy named Shakespeare to sign his name to the plays as author. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave.
So what’s next from these filmmakers, a hard-hitting exposé on who is actually buried in Grant’s Tomb? Clue: it’s Grant.
The thing about conspiracy theories is that they only work when there is no evidence. Unfortunately for the conspiracy theory upon which “Anonymous” is based, there actually is some evidence: Edward de Vere wrote poetry and signed his own name to it (no apparent need for remaining Anonymous there) and it survives today. If you read de Vere’s actual poetry (see below*) and can still accept that this person wrote the works of Shakespeare, then you have one more big question to answer: who wrote the works of de Vere? Everyone can plainly see that de Vere and Shakespeare were not written by the same person.
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