Greetings fellow THC members,
As a longtime listener I'm officially pitching myself and cohost known as Apokalupsis Historia for guest consideration, here to discuss the works of William Shakespeare and the alternative authors. We've been posting videos on our YT for the past year, finding some really intriguing angles and information to share, as well as pitching a hitherto mostly ignored figure, Sir Philip Sidney. I am aware of Alexander Waugh's and Alan Green's work, would love to tie all of their work (or challenge in some cases) into our theory, loosely defined as "Group Theory". Please watch our first episode "Will (the real) Shakespeare(s) please stand up?" on YT for general anti-stratfordian arguments but also a wider "theory of everything" take on the authorship question.
We have a few videos on the history of the actual Shakespeare Authorship Movement (it goes back to Shakespeares time!), the case for Philip Sidney, and recently just uploaded a 4+ hour video on the connection between the Philip Sidney circle and John Dee (spoiler: there's a TON)
If nothing else, hopefully other members might find our findings interesting!
Apokalupsis Historia on YT
The Magus & The Muse: John Dee, Philip Sidney, Shakespeare Continuum
Take care: and your move muse-manipulating-motherfuckers...your - fuckin - move!
- Brady
Bumping with new information.
Baconians, Oxfordians, Deeists...there are many candidates for Shakespeare and have yet to see someone attempt to rectify all the connections between the various candidates rather than spotlighting one and getting tunnel visioned.
In regards to the recent Baconian episode on Shakespeare, I ask, did Bacon also write Samuel Daniel? Ben Johnson? John Webster? Thomas Dekker? You'll find there are several names in this scene that lots of overlap between them and the works of Shakespeare.
Did you know Thomas Dekker wrote a version of "Troilus & Cressida" before Shakespeares? Can we compare the two to see if Shakespeare took or revised the Dekker version? They say we dont have it. In fact, he and several other playwrights have conspicuously sharing title names as Shakespeare in the Henslowe Diary...but we can't compare the works because they're "lost".
The works of Thomas Sackville and John Lyly predate but have overlap with Shakespeare - did little boy Bacon write those too?
Is this all just Bacon? Oxford? Who is Henslowe? What am I even referring to?
You'll come to find just looking at Bacon or Dee, while not discounting their involvement, you end up not actually talking about the PLAYS and the WRITING and I have to ask: is Shakespeare known for the lines and works....or a bunch of national treasure geo caches cyphers?
Not saying they're not there - but let's get back to the issue - who wrote the great lines?
Cyphers can be explained with an editors hand - hence all the weird spelling and capitalizing and formatting but there's plenty of time period to cover before the Folio is printed.
Who is the folio dedicated to? What involvement do they have? Who are they related to?
Who is Ben Johnson? If Shakespeare isn't real, then who is BJ, who does the intro?
Please watch latest video, short, asking "WTF is Shakespeare?"
https://youtu.be/G6CJvT3W4IE?si=J3i9CZuojYlb-vO5
Although a good warmup, the Bacon episode leaves too many holes and definitely not enough discussion on the plays and poems themselves. It is a can of worms, beware. We don't have the answers...but we have the right questions.
Please consider our work if you want a rigorous dialectic on the Shakespeare Authorship because frankly, recent episode is white belt material.
Shots fired.
Greg was also right to ask about connecting Dee and Bacon to which Robert could not account for.
Dee and Bacon bookend the period in discussion.
There is another thread that runs through them, the other most educated man in England: Sir Philip Sidney, Dee's personal pupil and family friend through several connections.
