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Historical Blindness

"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Three: Oxford's Ghost

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4839 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the penultimate installment of this weekly series on the Shakespeare authorship question, I bring the debate up to the modern day, to the most successful claim that someone else wrote the works attributed to the Bard, which also has relied on conspiracy and hidden codes and even on talking with ghosts. Direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. Visit www.airwavemedia.com to find other high-quality podcasts! Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode. Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!  And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!  Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Delicates," "Tarte Tatin," "The Gran Dias," "Borough," and "Sudden Courier." Other music, including "Remedy for Melancholy," and "daemones" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Following the initial failure of the Baconian heresy, to convince the world that Francis Bacon was the author of the works of Shakespeare, other candidates began to be named

0:53.8

as the potential true writers of

0:56.9

the Bard's great works. The playwright Christopher Marlowe was one. There were, of course,

1:02.9

many reasons why it could not have been Marlowe, but for many anti-Stratfordians, who simply

1:09.3

refused to consider the notion that Shakespeare,

1:12.6

the man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could possibly have written the works, Marlowe too had come

1:18.3

from too modest a background to have written the plays.

1:22.4

Though Marlowe had written well-regarded plays, and though he had risen from his lower-class background

1:28.3

to attend Cambridge, and though he even had connections to the royal court, which many

1:34.3

continued to believe was a prerequisite for consideration.

1:38.3

Marlow's connection was rather shady through the world of espionage. In the minds of many, the true bard simply must have

1:48.4

been an aristocrat, born of high breeding, and so they looked to members of the peerage,

1:55.2

earls, who seemed to fit their pet notions of what the writer might really have been like.

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