William Shakespeare
There is a mystery about his existence.
It is very strange that when we talk about geniuses, there are always doubts about their
existence. There are several hypotheses about his existence, from the most ridiculous to the
most serious.
One of the most ridiculous is that Shakespeare was from Alcamo . This hypothesis was
made by a student at Cambridge, Oxford ...
- Let us start with the Marlowian tradition: he is a good poet who died at the age of
29, he was a spy in favor of the queen because she had some plot. According to the
tradition Shakespeare was Marlowe, he was stabbed in a tavern and survived and
wrote under the name Shakespeare.
-The Bacovian tradition: founded by a group of people who claim it was Francis
Bacon who was a philosopher.
- The third theory is that there was a club of writers who wrote under Shakespeare's
name (like the Homeric Question) so it was a work of many hands.
They founded these theories because he never signed his works and many years of his life
are unknown and we know nothing about him.
SHAKESPEARIAN THEMES:
- his life: he was one of the best representatives in the Elizabethan theater. One of the first
theaters is the Globe. In 1666 there is a fire and it is destroyed because it was made of
wood, 400 years later the English decide to rebuild on the possible site of the Globe.
When we talk about Shakespeare, we talk about his threefold role:
- he was a writer
- he was an actor
- he was a shareholder, because he founded the first theater
Shakespeare knew the human heart in its heights of goodness and abysses of wickedness
and cruelty.
Shakespeare was influenced by Machiavelli and the forms of money and power. There
is a rumor: Shakespeare was not a graduate but a Grammar school graduate.
37 plays, which are masterpieces, have been attributed to him.
Shakespeare did not even write a novel.
Shakespeare is a playwright, he wrote:
- comedies (happy endings)
- tragedies (not happy endings).
