The notion of a grand literary deception surrounding the works of William Shakespeare is probably one of the less offensive conspiracy theories in circulation. Within literary academia, however, it’s absolute heresy. Yet many writers and thinkers, from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, have long insisted that there’s more to the tale of The Bard than the conventional historical account. The world of Shakespeare Truthers opens up a litany of enticing possibilities. Who really was Shakespeare if not Shakespeare? A collection of unattributed writers? A disgraced contemporary? A woman? Elizabeth Winkler, author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies joins The Chris Hedges Report for an overview of the taboo world of alternative Shakespeare theories.
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and book critic. Her essay “Was Shakespeare a Woman?â€, first published in The Atlantic, was selected for The Best American Essays 2020.
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Speculation backed by facts and analysis. How long did people have a geocentric model of the universe. History is constantly being reanalyzed, rediscovered by people questioning perceived certainties and so called facts.
Was (s)he a woman? If (s)he was, impressive whiskers!
THANK YOU MR. REDWOLFF!!! Hopefully MR. CHRIS HEDGES will notice that you have snuffed out this fire of ignorance. Something about his smug certainly in this interview caused me to stop listening to him about anything
I am surprised that Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford was only mentioned in passing. He is the best candidate for writing the plays and sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare – that illiterate drunk hustler. Aside from knowing Law, travel in Italy, Classical education in Latin and greek, part of an ancient line of nobility raised in the royal court. Hamlet was his autobiography, Someone who could not claim authorship for various compelling reasons. But the scholarship has been done for case of Edward de Vere – what is hard to accept is the idea of the greatest fraud in any literature has been perpetuated for 400 years by this crazy priesthood of Shakespeare!
From the comments below it's clear too many people just make up a opinion without looking at the evidence. Look at the specific evidence!!
He was a black woman, dwarf, with 1 leg, and he was a transgender woman
post-modernist poo poo on the level of jimmy dung. shakespeare or whoever wrote the plays/poems was an actual genius (thinking on a level beyond most) who cannot be judged by others with an ordinary i q. shakespeare is a tribute to autodidacts everywhere (with a barrel of genius juice thrown in).
What's with the snake, Elizabeth?
IF YOU HAVE TO TAKE AMERICAN LITERATURE IN COLLEGE AND YOU SAY SHAKESPEAR WAS GAY OR SAY THAT THE
WORLDS GREATEST LOVE SONNET NEVER MENTIONS ITS FOR A GIRL AND THE CLASS IS ON A MILITARY BASE
YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT HAVING TO LEARN ANY SHAKESPEAR !!! WORKED FOR ME !!! LESS HOMEWORK !!
John dee also on Bacon
Francis Bacon is the author of king james Bible. And probably Shakespeare too
"Do you think Shakespeare really wrote all those plays?"—I used to get this question frequently in my Shakespeare seminars (my doctoral dissertation was on Christopher Marlowe) and my stock and glib answer was this: "It was probably some other guy with the same name." I used to get a chuckle but today, with google search, such a conclusion is not so far fetched. Obviously, given the popularity of "commonplace books" at the time, collaboration was inevitable/unavoidable. The early-modern age is remarkable for advancing the individual author at the expense of the cultural collective. True or not, Shakespeare was probably a convenient figurehead for the emerging individual authorial identity.
You must not talk about this.
This is probably the most ridiculous Hedges Report I have ever seen.
If it wasn´t Shakespeare but a group of writers, the works have a unity of style that is amazing for a collective effort. I believe this is the work of one man only
She believes that vaccines are "safe 'n' effective" – which is not science but marketing.
Appeal to the likes of G.B. Shaw and ideologies such as postmodernism do not make her case any stronger.
This will come as news to William’s wife and children …
Basically, you learn why this is BS the first week of grad school.
Just because you know a lot about politics doesn’t mean you know even the first principles of historical scholarship, evidently. I can’t believe Chris Hedges teaches at Princeton and also would put out this video. There are historians and literary scholars at Princeton, maybe Chris should show this video to them and get their opinion. Maybe then he would remove the video and apologize to all the offended and annoyed experts in the field.
Don't understand why TRNN doesn't have millions os subscribers 😎👌
Of Fascinatingly interest, sayeth eye
I wrote them.
( Don’t tell anyone)
Sakesspeare was a Trans- Inuit didn't you know that Chris?!!!
The reason academia is such cowards , is that they ARE cowards. They do not fear being fired , so much as they fear having to bear eating lunch alone.
Group think yeah. Take Economics! Map and terrain hasn't matched for ages. Big Bang Theory, just 100 years of curve fitting.. Rona omg 😂
The insecure using self deception to feel better about themselves. A LOT of that going on these days.
Best book I’ve read this
year—2023. Thanks for this video that brought it to my attention!
I don't really think of Shakespeare as the greatest writer in the English language. Nor do I care if it was one guy or a team of guys or a woman or a team of women.
No he wasn't. Silly.
Questioning authorship is one thing, jumping to conclusions or guessing who might have been the author is pointless.