Penny Mccarthy
Autor de Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle
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For any good grasp of the real siginificance behind a good deal of some of the most important literature of Tudor and Jacobean and Commonwealth England, one must somehow gain a good grasp of the social and political life, times and struggles of the dynastic families the Dudleys, Herberts, Sidneys, Cecils, Veres and others. This work raises numerous interesting questions and offers some very interesting suggestions for how to see and anwser other questions.
Indispensable.
Why wasn't this work a bomb-shell upon its publication and a lasting sensation in Shakespearean scholarship?
Suppose for a moment that Philip Sidney, wounded while fighting with English forces (allied to the forces of the United Provinces of the Netherlands) against Spanish forces at the one-day battle of Zutphen (22 September 1586) died not from his battle-wounds but rather was murdered by his own uncle, Robert Dudley, First Earl of Leicester, one of Elizabeth, the queen's, most favored and beloved courtiers?
McCarthy points out that such was the general consensus view among many in the English nobility of the time: that Philip had been murdered—poisoned—by his uncle Robert Dudley. Philip Sidney was the brother of Mary Sidney as well as the son-in-law of the queen's trusted counsellor and spy-master, Sir Francis Walsingham. He married Walsingham's daughter, Frances, after an earlier attempt to arrange a marriage with Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, Elizabeth's principal secretary of state, fell through. Instead, Anne Cecil wed Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Mary Sidney became the wife of Henry Herbert, the second Earl of Pembroke. Her sons, William and Philip, successors to the title of Earl of Pembroke, became, like their mother, key figures in the literary world which saw the production of Edward Oxford's writings under various pen-names, most notably, "Robert Greene" and "William Shakespere."
The circumstances of Philip Sidney's murder by poisoning, if true, put many important events and people—not least the real author behind the literary work attributed to the pen-name "William Shakespeare"—in a fascinating, revelatory, new light.
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* (My note): To her credit, the independent scholar and editor of the blog “PoliticWorm” (http://www.politicworm.com), Stephanie Hopkins Hughes, has well understood this factor and used it to mainly good account.
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As supplement to the foregoing, some excerpts from
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