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Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare

58 calificaciones

University of London

Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare

58 calificaciones

This free course from the University of London explores critical thinking, and the interpretation of texts, through the Shakespeare authorship question. Using doubt about Shakespeare’s authorship as our playground, we will explore the key concept of authorship attribution, while developing skills in literary analysis, interpretation, and argument. Through forensic exploration of key texts, you will learn why Shakespeare’s authorship is questioned, and what evidence is cited on both sides of the debate. For those of you interested in exploring the works of Shakespeare from a new angle, or just wanting to hone your analytical thinking skills, this course offers an introduction to a fascinating area of interest. Those of you already interested in the Shakespeare authorship question will be encouraged to question your own assumptions in fruitful ways. Whether undertaken as a standalone course, or as preparation for the University of London BA in English, this course will be food for thought.

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The Evidence from Stratford-upon-Avon

In the module, you will look more deeply at the connection between Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare, beginning with Shakespeare-related testimony from people who had a provable personal connection to Stratford-upon-Avon and Shakespeare: William Camden, Michael Drayton, Shakespeare's son-in-law, Dr John Hall, and Shakespeare’s daughters. You’ll consider the question of his daughters’ literacy, and whether has any bearing on the authorship question. You’ll look at what are claimed to be local Warwickshire references in the plays, which have been used to support the traditional authorship attribution. And finally, you’ll consider the monument erected to Shakespeare in Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church, arguments that it was altered in the 18th century, and the three texts engraved on that monument and the connected grave.

C 5.1 Interview with Alexander Waugh - Part 28:40

C 5.2 Interview with Gregory Thompson Part 27:41

C 5.3 Interview with Gregory Thompson Part 37:34

C 5.4 Interview with Peter Dawkins Part 17:27

C 5.5 Interview with Peter Dawkins Part 25:19

C 5.6 Module Summary2:56

Conoce a los instructores

Ros Barber
Dr
English and Comparative Literature

In this module, you looked at the Shakespeare-related evidence

connected specifically with Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Some of this was missing evidence.

William Camden failed to connect the author to the town and it payed to see

Dr. John Hall wrote about treating his father-in-law no longer exist.

You considered the slightly odd and belated tribute that

Workshire writer Michael Drayton made on the subject of Shakespeare,

and the fact that his word trafficked and the word claimed by

the Stratford vicar supplied are

connected more with buying and selling than with writing.

You learned about Shakespeare's lodger, Thomas Greene,

a published poet who lived in Shakespeare's house for

several years whose diary entries about the man he

refers to as cousin say nothing that suggests he knew him to be the by now famous author.

You considered questions about the literacy levels of William Shakespeare,

his parents and his daughters.

And in particular, the conflict between

his daughters' illiteracy or functional illiteracy,

and the very educated women including working

class women who populate Shakespeare's plays.

You considered evidence from those plays that Shakespeare, the author,

had a university level education,

specifically one that connects him to Cambridge University.

You looked at people or places in the plays that has been argued were in or around

Stratford-upon-Avon but which turned out to

have other potentially stronger reference points.

You considered the argument that Shakespeare used Workshire dialect words in his plays,

arguments which have now been shown to have arisen through

circular reasoning and misunderstood poetic effects,

or to have falsely identified as local dialect,

words that were widely used by people from other parts of England.

For many people, the funeral monument in Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon,

a monument that shows a man with a pen

poised above a piece of paper on a writing cushion,

shows Shakespeare's death date and refers to all that he hath writ

is clinching proof that Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of the Shakespeare Canon.

I hope I've convinced you that the monument has not been substantially altered,

but I hope you've got some serious curiosity about the enigmatic texts engraved on it.

As you approach the final module,

you'll see how these texts are firmly linked

to the First Folio and how the First Folio was

the key publication which created or consolidated our traditional view of Shakespeare.

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