Afterword.
Faith in the mysteries of history – one of the wonderful dispositions of our mind, a healthy intellectual need to see the phenomenon more complex than they seem at first glance, to detect unusual for a seemingly flat and commonplace. This is our rebellion against the banality.
While the tantalizing mystery of the mind, we will continue to seek answers to our questions or invented, and incidentally to discover and deeper grasp of Shakespeare, whoever he was.
Works of William Shakespeare (Shake-Speare – “A stunning spear”) suggest that this man had a giant, with nothing is not comparable to the volume of the active vocabulary – from 20 to 25 thousand words, while the most educated and talented literary and his contemporaries such as the philosopher Francis Bacon – about 9-10 thousand words. Modern Englishman with a higher education uses no more than 4 thousand words. Shakespeare is, according to the Oxford dictionary, introduced into English around 3200 new words – more than his literary contemporaries of Bacon, Johnson and Chapman put together.
The author plays a well-known French language (in “Henry V” whole scene was written in French), Italian, Latin, versed in Greek, perfectly oriented in the history of England, in ancient history and so on. The plot of “Hamlet” is taken from the book the Frenchman Belfort, translated into English only a hundred years. Scenes “Othello” and “The Merchant of Venice” borrowed from Italian collections also appeared in English only in the XVIII century. The plot of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” is taken from the Spanish pastoral novel, until the play was never published in English.
Found that Shakespeare was well-known Greco-Roman mythology, literature, history, he used the works of Homer, Ovid, Seneca, Plutarch, not only in translation, but in the original. Research has established scientists thoroughness of knowledge of the author of plays in English history, jurisprudence, rhetoric, music, botany, (specialists counted 63 names of grasses, trees and flowers in his works), medicine, military and naval matters, even (the proof of the latter – the team given to the boatswain in Bure). He was well known in Northern Italy, Padua, Venice … In short, the works of Shakespeare are traces of a very erudite person, highly educated, fluent in the language knows no other country, the life of the then highest-ranking circles of English society, including monarchs, familiar with court etiquette, ancestry, language itself highborn nobility.
What is documented is known about who the authors of plays – SHaksper (according to the correct spelling of names in the church books and other official papers-Shakspere) of Stratford? First of all it knew nothing. When no traces of his life, and evidence that someone took him for a writer. After 50-100 years after his death began to look for these signs and documents. So what was learned: his entire family – father, mother, wife, and – oh, horror! – Children – were illiterate. And from him there was not a scrap of paper, written in his hand.
Where can I find a book from his library (while many other of his contemporaries and still continue to find books with signatures, a kind of ex libris, etc.).
But there are documents showing that SHaksper of Stratford was engaged in petty usury, stubbornly pursuing their neighbors – a blacksmith, a chemist – for the debts of the courts. Was an active acquirer. There is no evidence that he had received at least primary education. Tradition says that he was in a little city elementary school (like our parish).
Tradition says: SHaksper father, had difficulty early and took him from school, made an apprentice. All that was then common, but where could he find the highest or the incomparable erudition, erudition, knowledge of languages and so forth?
SHaksper was a member of the acting troupe. And also he was a shareholder in the theater, that is, actor-owner – is well documented. It is believed that he gave his plays there. It was as if his contribution to the cause. Excellent suggestion, but it is not supported by any documents. There is no documented indication that some of the actors troupe Globus thought SHaksper lifetime writer, playwright.
Turn to SHaksper testament, drawn up by the notary with his words. He was found more than a hundred years. The man who found him, was in despair. He wrote to his friend that in his will is not a single word that could be associated with Shakespeare – the Great Bard. There are painted spoons, forks, money for several generations, interest, pensions … All is planned – down to the utensils and beds. And – no word on books, although many books were expensive.
But where his manuscripts? The name of Shakespeare at that time was already known to the publishers for his plays, sonnets chased. And as it fell Shakespearean manuscript is unknown. His contemporaries – writers, poets, playwrights – to earn this. Besides him! He, who for two pounds chased through the courts for poor debtor, and probably jailed neighbor-smith (proletarian, in our opinion), did not mention any of the manuscript. But for the play can be obtained from the then publisher of six pounds!
When he died SHaksper from Stratford, no one in England did not utter a sound! The only response to the death of a genius – an entry in Stratford parish register: “April 25, 1616 buried Will SHaksper, Genti..”
In those days it was taken: when the poet dies, maybe not even very well known, and colleagues wrote in the death of his elegies, published collections of memorabilia. On the death of Johnson – a whole book of elegies. Died Beaumont – solemn funeral elegy. Dies Drayton (who we know Michael Drayton?) – Students form a whole procession through the streets of the city (by the way, Drayton was a commoner and poor) … Entire collections mourned the death of Sidney, Spencer … And here – a word, no sound.
Let’s offer our solution to the puzzle over which for so long racked their brains and spears Shakespeare recognized around the world. In our opinion it was a grand idea to execution. Version reads: witty young Count Retlend, modestly signed his works assumed name Shake-Speare (amazing spear), was pleasantly surprised to find a theatrical troupe, put it a tragedy, practical small with the name of Shakspere, only two letters different from the famous nickname. Likely envisioned that SHaksper of Stratford for the promised good pay willingly joined in the game. The ability to keep his mouth shut and ignorance of the latter, he says, ensured the success of the joint venture. But this author received a welcome rest and repose from earthly glory.
Obviously, a Shakespearean question arose because of the unprecedented in world culture, contradictions between what is known about the author from his works and those undisputed facts that say about the life and deeds of William Shakespeare (SHaksper) from Stratford.
It should not, of course, ignore the white spots in Shakespeare’s biography and argue that they did not raise questions and doubts. But the answers to many of them can be extremely simple, lying on the surface, and do not require the creation of some “other” Shakespeare, who was hiding under the mask SHaksper. On the advice of a medieval English philosopher William of Ockham – “Do not needlessly propagate new entity.” Let’s listen now to the same arguments of other historians and Shakespeare scholars
No one knows the truth about Shakespeare; there are only legends, opinions, some documents and his great works…
The name of Shakespeare has always been shrouded in mystery. There are no manuscripts, no portraits, and no reviews from contemporaries left. Even the death of the great playwright was not noticed in literary circles.
We only know that according to church records he was born April 3, 1564 in Stratford. His mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a farmer, and his father, John Shakespeare, was the seller of wool and became mayor of Stratford in 1568.
In 1582, November 27, Shakespeare married Anne Hetevey, which was 8 years older than him. Shakespeare had three children: Susanna and twins Judith and Hemneta. Leaving family and Stratford in 1592, he went to London and became an actor in the troupe of the Royal’s Globe Theater. In 1595 Shakespeare is one of the owners of the Royal troupe of James I “. In 1599, he became one of the owner’s Globe Theater, and in 1608 – co-owner of the Dominican theater. By the end of his career in London, Shakespeare became quite wealthy man to afford to buy a noble title and a house in Stratford. However, for unknown reasons, he leaves London and returns to his hometown, where he soon, April 23, 1616 died at age 52.
The biographical information about Shakespeare is scarce and often unreliable. Researchers believe that as a playwright, he began to speak a late 80-ies the XVI century. In press the name of Shakespeare first appeared in 1593 in dedication to Count Southampton poem “Venus and Adonis”. Meanwhile, by the time the scene has already been delivered not less than six plays of the playwright.
“First Folio” – works of William Shakespeare came seven years after his death. His works do not have the exact chronology and the first folio includes the following: “Richard III”, “Henry IV”, “The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night,” “Two gentlemen of Verona “,” Romeo and Juliet.
Two hundred years of arguing about who was William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright, poet and writer of all times and peoples. Why such question have arisen? Nobody doubts that Michelangelo, Raphael, Archimedes, or Sophocles is quite real. But if two hundred years, people struggling with the answer, then the question, the mystery still there?
No information about his life we have, except for the receipts of his debtors, documents on the left to their tithes and wills – a very strange testament, in which there is no hint of the literary activities of this man. There is, however, a monument to Shakespeare in his hometown of Stratford, but the image on it is completely different to their portraits that adorn the collected works. (Incidentally, all the portraits of the Great Bard are, by definition, researchers frauds. The only portrait of a “real” Shakespeare is in the “First Folio”, where the reader’s eyes appears a man in medieval costume, with a wide ploenym collar, which, as platter, an enormous head with a disproportionately elongated forehead and chin, and lifeless eyes. Game of Shadows creates a sense that the image is a person – just a mask.) These and other discrepancies have created a so-called “Shakespeare’s question.” Since the XIX century the researchers of Shakespeare divided into two warring camps: stratfordiantsev (ie, recognized as the author of Shakespeare (SHaksper) from Stratford and nestratfordiantsev (trying to find the real author, hiding under the mask). The latter, in turn, made several “candidates in Shakespeares.
What is the true story and the greatest playwright in the world, almost four centuries fired the humanity? … “The world – theater, and people in it – actors,” – he wrote – and created a performance equal to that never was and probably will not. In this performance involves all who are familiar with its name. This man’s name – Shakespeare.
To be continued.
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