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Graf Retlend in the role of Shakespeare

Chapters on Retlend couple – undoubted success I. Gililova. They tactfully reproduce the tragic history of this fascinating couple, which, being devoid of happiness in marriage because of the illness of her husband, are made joint poetry. They were the heart of the literary circle, which included the famous Mary Sidney, Ben Jonson and other poets, and as the author convincingly argues, be happy doing a hoax, to which it relates and the invention of “the playwright William Shakespeare.” However, I. Gililov does not notice that in all other cases, their literary pleasures nobody took the trouble to carefully their veil, on the contrary, clownish character of these funny jokes overemphasized and flaunted. It is likely that after the death of his wife Retlend voluntarily followed him, had committed suicide, and their creative alliance ended, but does that mean that, when they died and Shakespeare, the fruit of imagination of one or both of them? Strictly speaking, all the author’s arguments in favor of this version are indirect and vulnerable.
Retlend been in Padua and was able to write about the University of Padua (but could and SHaksper). Graf met there the Danes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but this does not mean that he had not told them the usual student stories with friends who could remember and enter his house SHaksper together with the unusual name of the Scandinavians. Also often ignored nestratfordiantsami enthusiastic lines of Shakespeare’s Queen Elizabeth, written after her death, because they could not sound out of the mouth Retlend affected by it.
Denying “cheapskate” SHaksper the right to be a genius, I. Gililov gives it the right discreet Retlend”, which, however, suffers from a venereal disease, poison which made an unhappy marriage and his wife? But if he wrote under the name of Shakespeare, to entertain the countess, in the light of high moral qualities attributed to Retlend, and his immense platonic love for his wife a few strange on his lips look like lyrical lines of the “dark lady sonnets, very vivid image which hardly could please him red-haired wife. On the other hand, the “fair friend” of the sonnets easily guessed by Earl of Southampton, which is not only really close friend Retlend, but also the patron of the real SHaksper.
In the theory of “Retlend is Shakespeare reveals many contradictions and psychological characteristics. The author continually stresses that many people knew about who was the real Shakespeare: Cambridge classmates Retlend, MI Sidney, Ben Jonson, publishers and printers, but all of them for decades kept the terrible secret out of respect for Retlend couple. Unclear, however, why they’re all so serious about the literary game that would be terrible to an innocent hoax? Why should keep silent about it even many years after the death of Retlend, while rumors of the real secret of the family – her husband’s ailment – nevertheless leaked and discussed by the court, as well as allusions to the fact that in the eyes of his contemporaries might really look like terrible sin – suicide Countess Retlend. It is hard to believe a strange tact dozen knowledgeable people who do not share with the descendants of the information about who is merely a sign of genius poems assumed name.

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.

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  • TIM 20 Jul, 2010