When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor for twenty-four years. Yet his death was not an event. It made no stir, it attracted no attention. Apparently his eminent literary contemporaries did not realize that a celebrated poet had passed from their midst.
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Twain critiques spectacularly--as usual, in this piece. I found it to be incredibly interesting and convincing, as Twain believes Shakespeare did not, in fact, write those plays and poems.
I would also recommend, by Twain: "1601", "In Defense of Harriet Shelley", and "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"
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This is a book worth owning but make sure you purchase it from a different publishing house. Kessinger Publishing will sell you a hardcover book for $24 that is so badly made that you can see the glue holding the binding together on page one. I expect a better quality from a hardcover than i would in a paperback and yet this hardcover is so cheaply made that the average paperback would put it to shame. Now for the material itself. This is not Twain's wittiest of works nor even his best written, but I relish every line of it nonetheless as he builds a case advancing the notion that just perhaps the works of Shakespeare are not written by Shakespeare at all. Pen name? Sure, especially if you suspect the real author to be by Bacon instead but Twain goes about piecing together the sparse information concerning the great bard and the inconsistencies of what is known sniffing out what can only be a conspiracy to rival that of 9/11. But this is not the beauty of this work because after all what difference does it make who wrote the great works, shakespeare will always continue to be 'shakespeare', what Twain seems to be exploring is the ability for one to address what is known to be a 'fact', accepted truth or Holy Cow. Or as he wrote "I am aware that when even the brightest of mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never b e possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast doubt upon the validity of that superstition." All notions he suggests we get second-hand "we reason none of them out for ourselves".
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Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with "Claimants"-claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant-and the rest of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Penzance, Stratford Shakespeare, Lord Campbell, Shakespeare of Stratford, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Grant White, The Shakespearite New!
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Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with "Claimants"-claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant-and the rest of them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Penzance, Stratford Shakespeare, Lord Campbell, Shakespeare of Stratford, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Grant White, The Shakespearite New!
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- Novum Organum (Spanish Edition) by Francis Bacon on page 41, and page 43
- Titus Andronicus (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 14
- The History of England (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Babington Macaulay on page 41
- Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon on page 41
- The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) by Francis Bacon on page 41
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- The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Alex Ayres on 7 pages
- The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Alex Ayres on 6 pages
- Big-Time Shakespeare (Is Shakespeare Great? Or Is It all Just Hype?) by Michael D. Bristol on 4 pages
- Big-Time Shakespeare by Michael D. Bristol on 4 pages
- Mark Twain, A Literary Life by Everett Emerson on 4 pages
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