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April 23, 2025 48 mins

EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship

Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director 

On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford". 

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SECTIONS

  1. 02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions
  2. 11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously
  3. 20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio
  4. 25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or  William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr)
  5. 37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction
  6. 44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand
  • Music by Fanette Ronjat

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