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This is a portrayal of Shakespeare's life and times, providing a study of the controversy surrounding his work. It attempts to dismantle the arguments which claim that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays.
- Sales Rank: #5313411 in Books
- Published on: 1999-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.96" h x .80" w x 5.92" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 1 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments of those who claim that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote his plays. The current frontrunner in the Bard authorship sweepstakes is Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), a minor court poet, actor and producer. Matus ( Shakespeare: The Living Record ) soundly thrashes the Oxfordians, puncturing holes in their theory that de Vere wrote the plays. Matus demonstrates that Shakespeare's contemporaries gave little indication that they thought of the Bard as the greatest playwright of his age; only during the 18th-century, when editors corrected real or perceived flaws in the works, did his reputation soar, the author maintains. This closely argued study should help put to rest the authorship controversy. Illustrated. First serial to the Atlantic Monthly.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The last significant study of who actually wrote the Shakespeare plays was Charlton Ogburn's The Mysterious William Shakespeare (1984); Ogburn's candidate was Edward de Vere, a courtier to Elizabeth I. Matus presents a number of refutations to Ogburn's arguments, battling, in general, over the same ground--there's the question of whether or not the writer's name (or pseudonym) was spelled Shakspere, or whether any but a nobleman could acquire the worldliness that enriches the plays. Determining dates of composition is also crucial. Both Matus and Ogburn deploy a welter of references to the playwright and to the Elizabethan stage; but what they refer to is fragmentary evidence, and missing parts must be inferred. Matus spent six years compiling his details, impressively obsessive enough. Even so, he must resort to pure speculation at times--for instance, regarding the "lost years" of Shakespeare (the name, rather than the man) before the first printed appearance in 1592. But books about Shakespeare's identity always circulate; if you have Ogburn, you can safely add Matus. Gilbert Taylor
From Kirkus Reviews
Although more than 300 books have disputed the authorship of poems and plays most often attributed to Shakespeare, Matus (the scholarly Shakespeare, 1991--not reviewed) now offers what he believes should be the final one, presenting an irrefutable Shakespeare who was himself and not the 56 others--scholars, royals, obscure geniuses--put forth in his stead. Matus's primary challenge here is to the 17th Earl of Oxford- -and to the camp of scholars, the ``Oxfordians,'' who support him. Matus's mastery of the Elizabethan Age, and especially of its publishing and theater history, gives him an edge. He establishes the ``paper trail'' left by Shakespeare as both actor and playwright; left by the stationers (printers) involved in publishing the plays; by the scripts and their relationship to performances; and by the reluctance of actors and their companies to publish plays that would break their monopoly on production. The value of Matus's argument lies in these fine observations and in the mass of evidence he accumulates about other playwrights, their sources in antiquity and contemporary Europe, and their performance history and practice--all the while challenging the Oxfordians. In this context, Matus reconstructs Shakespeare's reputation, theater, profession, editions, and performances, and he explores the distinctions between scholarship and performance, as well as between theater and drama. Scholars, he concludes, created ``bardolatry,'' inflating Shakespeare's talent and achievement, and then proposed other authors to account for this image of a genius. When viewing Shakespeare as playwright in his own time, it's possible, Matus says, to appreciate the historical man as the industrious author of his works. Finally, Matus criticizes his own art--the art of scholarship--and advocates knowing Shakespeare primarily through performance. A well-defined and fascinating populist argument that makes Shakespeare accessible as a hard-working and clever man of the theater. (Seventy-five illustrations) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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33 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
An excellent case against Oxfordianism
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Irvin Matus's Shakespeare, IN FACT
Reviewed by Thomas A. Pendleton
The Shakespeare Newsletter, Summer 1994
The authorship controversy -- which nowadays is tantamount to saying the Oxfordian hypothesis -- is not often seriously investigated by Shakespeare scholars. There are a number of reasons why, with sheer cowardice and fear of being found out and losing tenure relatively low on the list. Almost all Shakespeareans, I expect, are aware that claims for any rival author are based on assertions and inferences about Shakespeare's biography, his inadequate education, the absence of his manuscripts, the plays' erudition, aristocratic bias, knowledge of Italian geography, and so on; assertions and inferences that are untenable and have been shown to be untenable. Most libraries can supply the Shakespearean with some older, but very useful, treatments of the subject, notably Frank W. Wadsworth's graceful and cogent survey, The Poacher from Stratford, and Milward Martin's energetically argued Was Shakespeare Shakespeare?. And probably nearer to hand is Shakespeare's Lives, which reviews the controversy in a longish section called "Deviations." For most Shakespeareans most of the time, Schoenbaum sufficeth.
A number of other considerations militate against the Shakespearean's engaging the topic. Public debates and moot courts, favorite venues for proponents of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, are far more compatible to categorical pronouncements than to the laborious establishment of detail, context, and interpretation required to counter them, not to mention doing so with enough panache to win the approval of a non-specialist audience. Shakespeareans sometimes take the position that even to engage the Oxfordian hypothesis is to give it countenance it does not warrant. And, of course, any Shakespearean who reads a hundred pages on the authorship question inevitably realizes that nothing he can say or write will prevail with those persuaded to be persuaded otherwise.
Perhaps the mos! t daunting consideration for the scholar who intends to seriously examine this claim is the volume and nature of the research that will be demanded. To begin with, he must become completely familiar with the nearly 900 pages of Charlton Ogburn's The Mysterious William Shakespeare, the authorized version of Oxfordianism, and then proceed to test at least a wide sampling of random claims of other adherents. He will continually be faced with the prospect of dealing with gratuitous assertions as if they were serious scholarly conclusions, and the necessity of demonstrating such assertions to be incoherent in the appropriate context, or based on incomplete or selective evidence, or logically faulty, or some combination thereof. The research required will be extremely demanding, much of it in quite recondite areas where very few have boldly gone before. He probably ought also to curb his natural temptation to say snide things when refuting especially preposterous claims.
As remarkable as it sounds, Irvin Leigh Matus, in his Shakespeare, IN FACT (New York: Continuum, 1994), has managed to perform all of these tasks, even the last. (Well, he's pretty restrained, anyhow.) Matus notes with some sympathy "The great frustration of the Oxfordians... that academic Shakespeareans do not pay attention to their scholarship nor address their questions." He adds, "It is also their great fortune," which he then proceeds to demonstrate.
To the best of my knowledge, no previous Shakespeare scholar has engaged so much of what Oxfordians have presented as evidence for their positions, or has done so as thoroughly. Matus gives not just fair, but even patient, hearing; and in many instances where a less forbearing respondent might give a short answer, he explores and explains in further detail.
Among such instances is the claim that Ben Jonson's "Sweet swan of Avon" actually refers to the Earl, whose manor at Bilton was on the Avon river and presumably frequented by swans. It might be thought ! sufficient to observe that the phrase is a direct address in a poem directly addressed "To My Beloved Mr. William Shakespeare," and that the epithet's reference to Shakespeare is, quite superfluously, confirmed in the dedication of the Beaumont and Fletcher folio (of which, more later). Matus, however, performs the supererogatory work of tracking down the history of the Bilton estate. It eventuates that Oxford leased it out in 1574, sold it in 1581, and never regained possession. This particular sweet swan had flown off 42 years before Jonson's poem.
The orthodox claim that The Tempest relies on the Bermuda pamphlets of 1610 cannot be allowed by de Vere's proponents, whose man died in 1604. Other and earlier accounts have been proposed, notably the 1592 shipwreck, off Bermuda, of the Edward Bonaventure, a ship supposed to be connected with Oxford, perhaps even to be the vessel he commanded against the Armada. Matus gives the short answer -- consult Bullough's standard work on the sources for the parallels to William Strachey's 1610 letter on behalf of the Virginia Company -- but he also resurrects the history of the ship. He demonstrates that Oxford's only connection was to consider buying it in 1581, it fought in the Armada campaign under other command, and neither of the two supposed eye-witnesses described its wreck for the very good reason that neither was on board.
The engraving of the Stratford Monument in William Dugdale's 1656 Antiquities of Warwickshire is a favorite artifact for Oxfordians. The picture differs in a number of respects from the monument we know; notably, it lacks the quill and paper which the figure of Shakespeare now holds. Proceeding from this, it is supposed that these items were added when the monument was restored in 1748, probably to enhance its literary aura for the tourist trade; the cushion on which the figure now seems to write is accordingly assumed to originally have been a bag of grain, appropriate to Shakespeare's local reputation as a malt jobber. Pre! vious commentators have been content to cite the letter of Joseph Greene, the local schoolmaster and curate in 1748, to the effect that the restoration was committed only to preserving the original design; that a number of Dugdale's plates are similarly in error is also frequently stated. Matus cites Greene, and more importantly, he too denies Dugdale's reliability -- but not just at the level of assertion. He provides a couple of comparable examples of Dugdale's inaccuracy -- the Clopton and Carew tombs in Holy Trinity Church -- and clinches his argument with the instance of the effigy on the Beauchamp tomb in Warwick. As with the Stratford Monument, here we have existing statuary inaccurately portrayed in the Antiquities, we have the record of an intervening restoration begun in 1674, and, in greater detail, we have records of the restoration that seem to insist that no alterations were introduced. We also know who planned and supervised the restoration: none other than William Dugdale.
Shakespeare, IN FACT is continually generous in treating such claims with a respect appropriate to far more firmly based conclusions by providing abundant materials to refute them. It also strikes me as remarkable restraint, perhaps even mansuetude, that the book never mentions any of the most hirsute of Oxfordian suppositions: that the Earl of Southampton was the illegitimate son of Vere and Queen Elizabeth, for instance; or that Ben Jonson murdered Shakespeare.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Required reading in the SAQ
By B. J Robbins
A wonderful book, full of facts, like the title says. The one star reviews are obviously by Oxfordians. Matus writes about Shakespeare and his work, his family, but he also takes on the subject of Oxfordism, that is, the belief that Edward de Vere wrote the plays. When this book was written, in the early 1990's, there were very few books out on the Oxforrd theory of authorship, and his main opponent is Charlton Ogborn and his revival book which resurrected the Oxford hypothesis from the graveyard. He writes defensively, anticipating every Oxfordian argument against his conclusions and reasoning. And he slaughters Ogburn, showing up the poor thinker that he was.
If you want to read about Shakespeare vs. De Vere, this is the book to read.
24 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
The Penultimate Word
By E. T. Veal
The review posted below by David Kathman succinctly summarizes the content of this scholarly polemic against the absurdities of the literary "Oxford Movement". I just wish to note that the 1999 paperback edition is a straight reprint of the 1994 hardbound. Therefore, while it addresses the orthodox Looney-Ogburn-Whalen school of anti-Stratfordianism, there is nothing about more recent mutations. Readers who want to keep up to date on the controversy should take a look at Professor Kathman's Shakespeare Authorship Web site, which discusses virtually all of the Oxfordian arguments and links to such interesting material as a complete edition of the Earl of Oxford's extant letters, which may prove disillusioning to those who cherish an image of the earl as a polymathic genius.
Even though it does not swat the very latest fantasies of Authorship Cultism, "Shakespeare, In Fact" is both entertaining and useful. Reading it will leave one better informed about not only the narrow question of who wrote Shakespeare but also the broader context of the Elizabethan stage and Renaissance literature.
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