I am far from believing that Shakespeare led a life of allegory, or that the
author is altogether any one of his characters, but certainly on occasion we
can feel invited to pick up the thread. As most of us will have told our
students, the trick is to connect this:
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded. ...
(Where Hamnet is present/absent)
And this:
... But this rough magic
I here abjure; and when I have required
Some heavenly music (which even now I do)
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
(Where staff is the same one that appears in Falstaff/Shake-spear.)
With this:
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was. ... The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man
hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor
his heart to report what my dream was. I shall get Peter Quince to write a
ballet of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath
no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of our play, before the
duke.
And this triumphant announcement from the same party:
for the short and the long is, our play is preferred.
-- Jim N.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:46:37 -0400
"James C. Nohrnberg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The belief that it was not Shakespeare who wrote those plays which he is
>credited with or which have been fathered on him is merely the frustrated
>perception -- under another name -- that nobody could have written those
>plays. But Alonzo hasn't drowned himself, Ferdinand hasn't drowned, and
>Prospero's book, insofar as it's Shakespeare's, refuses to be lost to its
>master. -- Jim N.
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:02:44 -0400
> Lauren Silberman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I believe that Paul Oskar Kristeller expressed the opinion that the plays
>>of Shakespeare were written by another man of the same name.
>>
>> Lauren
>>
>> At 10:27 AM 9/19/2007, you wrote:
>>
>> It does make sense that Greville wrote some of Shakespeare's works. Since
>>Shakespeare was so busy translating the King James Bible, he would hardly
>>have had the time for sonnets. But then, who wrote Greville's poems?
>>Perhaps Marlowe. There's the dating problem, but I'm sure there's a way
>>around it. Greville's ghost could no doubt solve the conundrum for us, if
>>we can interrupt one of his nightly rounds.
>>
>> By the way, did list members catch the news in the NYTimes that the first
>>graduate program in Shakespeare Authorship Studies is being convened at
>>Brunel University in London? And a "Statement of Reasonable Doubt" in the
>>Stratfordian hyphothesis has been signed by the usual suspects: Derek
>>Jacobi, Mark Rylance, etc. I have a theory of my own that the celebrated
>>roles of Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius, Cadfael, Underworld: Evolution) were
>>actually performed by someone else. In some cases, he might actually
>>support the theory himself. The truth will out.
>>
>> Hannibal
>>
>>
>>
>> Hannibal Hamlin
>> Associate Professor of English
>> The Ohio State University
>> Book Review Editor and Associate Editor, Reformation
>>
>> Mailing Address (2007-2009):
>>
>> The Folger Shakespeare Library
>> 201 Capitol Street SE
>> Washington, DC 20003
>>
>> Permanent Address:
>>
>> Department of English
>> The Ohio State University
>> 421 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Avenue
>> Columbus, OH 43210-1340
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: anne prescott <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:48 am
>>
>> Subject: Re: Master of Shakespeare
>>
>> > Thanks for this, Matt. I think. Sort of. I'll add Greville to Mary
>> >
>> > Sidney amd Oxford as the creator of Shakespeare. I might add that
>> > nowadays once your college posts its curriculum that if, as in my
>> > case this year, you're doing the Shakespeare course, you get some
>> > mighty peculiar ads for books or even, in my case, a slim volume.
>> > But
>> > even before such public posting, years ago when I was teaching my
>> > fable and fantasy course I got an essay from someone showing that
>> > Queen Victoria wrote the Alice books. Curiouser and curiouser. Off
>> > to
>> > teach L's LL and will tell the students about Greville (and the
>> > Greville kids, as we call them at Kalamazoo). By the way, decades
>> > ago
>> > when I was on my honeymoon and we were visiting Warwick castle the
>> >
>> > guide told us that Greville "walks" there. Maybe he reads this e-
>> > list, too. Anne.
>> >
>> > On Sep 19, 2007, at 4:47 AM, Steggle, Matthew wrote:
>> >
>> > > Fulke Greville fans might want to know that there's a new book
>> > out,
>> > > which has a rather surprising hypothesis about him:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.masterofshakespeare.com/
>> > >
>> > > I note that its ideas are already turning up on wikipedia, so
>> > > expect a rush of enquiries.
>> > >
>> > > - Matt
>> >
>> >
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