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Authorship of the Shakespeare Works
Shakespeare Questions
There are some definite questions which
need to be answered in respect of the authorship of the Shakespeare
plays and poems, for what is known about the life of the actor and supposed
author Will Shakspere does not square with the facts derived from a
study of the works themselves. For instance:-
- How did Shakespeare acquire such an outstanding
knowledge and scholarship in classical philosophy and mythology?
- Why are the Shakespeare plays and poems so
full of academic learning and University matters?>
- Why does Shakespeare often use, out of context
and as if natural to himself, the idiomatic language of Cambridge
University, and refer to customs and stories unique and private
to that university?
- Besides Latin and Greek, where did Shakespeare
learn French, Italian and Spanish, which he needed in order to read
certain source material which he used?
- How did Shakespeare manage to get access to
the multitude of books, many of them rare or untranslated, which
he read?
- How did Shakespeare acquire such a mastery
of the English language and to such an extent that he not only used
over 24,000 different words but also invented at least 1700 new
words and Latinised others?
- Why would Shakespeare want to use so many new
and abstruse words and meanings?
- Why are the Shakespeare plays and sonnets filled
with legal terminology, some of it abstruse and all of it appropriately
used?
- Why do the Shakespeare plays indicate not only
the author’s expert acquaintance with the law in general, but also
with the language, rules, circumstances and even the most trivial
aspects of Gray’s Inn and its twin establishment, the Inner Temple?
- If Shakespeare was not a member of Gray’s Inn,
how could he have known of the various circumstances and wording
of the elaborate Gray’s Inn Revels of 1594/5?
- Why do the Shakespeare plays appear to be written
primarily from the point of view of a courtier, and with such intimate
inside knowledge of the royal Court and foreign affairs?
- How did Shakespeare acquire his detailed and
seemingly first-hand knowledge concerning both people and places
in countries such as Italy and France?
- How did Shakespeare become so knowledgeable
about and influenced by the Italian Comedia dell’ Arte?
- Why do the Shakespeareplays contain so many
political discourses, arguments and questions, demonstrating not
only a personal interest but a good grasp of the issues involved
in English politics?
- From what is known about the actor Will Shakspere,
how is it that the Shakespeare plays and poems are so full of profound
and highly educated philosophy?
- Where did Shakespeare acquire his profound
knowledge of the Ancient Mysteries, upon which he based the underlying
structures, rhythms and meanings of his plays, and his metaphysics
- How is it that the Shakespeare plays show such
an unusually detailed knowledge of nature as well as of human beings?
- Why does the Shakespeare Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon
refer to Shakespeare as being like Nestor, Socrates and Virgil?
- If the author Shakespeare was not the actor
Will Shakspere, which clearly he was not, then who was he?
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