43% of UK POPULATION SAY SHAKESPEARE DID NOT WRITE PLAYS
and believe the true author has not yet been identified
A new market research survey by Explorandum shows that 43% of the UK population do not believe that William Shakespeare wrote the plays usually attributed to him.
However none of the candidates proposed so far--Oxford, Bacon or Marlowe-- get much acceptance. More than any of those candidates, people believe that the true author has not yet been discovered. This is especially true in the Midlands—the area around Stratford-Upon-Avon, where 49% of the population do not believe that Mr. Shakespeare wrote the plays.
John Hudson, a supporter of the latest new candidate for the authorship of the plays—the Jewish poet Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645) who was the first woman to publish a book of poetry—welcomed the survey. Having recently completed his thesis at the Shakespeare Institute putting forward Amelia as the author, he claimed she is the new candidate for whom people have been waiting. Her authorship was strongly supported by performances of the underlying Jewish allegories in two of the plays by the Dark Lady Players over 2007-8.
Hudson especially welcomed the survey finding that 89% of the UK population were prepared to accept that the plays were written by a woman or a non-white person. “Amelia was the so-called ‘dark lady’, from a Venetian, Jewish family of Moroccan ancestry” he said. “She was also mistress to the man in charge of the English theater. We have extremely good evidence she is the true author, including several of her literary signatures on the plays.” The latest research is being presented at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Oxford Society and the Shakespeare Fellowship in October 2008.
Explorandum is a UK research organization. The sample was selected from their online polling community. Quotas were set to ensure that the sample of over 2,000 people was structured to be representative of the UK population. Research director Nicky Perrott, was previously research director for MORI, and head of market research at Reuters.
The Dark Lady Players are an experimental Shakespeare company, which recently finished a production of the Jewish allegories in As You Like It at the New York Midtown International Theatre Festival www.darkladyplayers.com.
The Shakespeare Oxford Society will hold its annual conference in October 2008. John Hudson will deliver a talk titled ‘Why was Shakespeare so interested in the Roman-Jewish war?’ Details are at www.shakespeare-oxford.com/?p=138
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Bassano fits around 20 areas of key knowledge that the author demonstrates in the plays--especially the Hebrew, knowledge of Judaism, music, law, rare plants etc etc. Check out the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gxt2zdp0w
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so 67% rightly still thinks that he did.
it's not good because it's old, it's old because it's good. That applies to Shakespeare and the Conspiracy terrorists
Emilia Bassanio is waaaay down on the list for acceptance as Shakspeare. But articles like this add, i hope, bums to the dark lady's seats.
ideas can take centuries before they are proven wrong.
so with this one.
let me know when it's really been proven that shakespeare wasn't shakespeare.
in the name of Will,
WSutton
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