humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 9, 8:27 pm, bookb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621),
> from atwww.mayrysydney.com.
>
> (quote)
> Unlike every other proposed authorship candidate, Mary Sidney has no
> anomaly (like being dead) that needs an elaborate explanation to
> justify.

MM:
That's a good one. LOL

> Everything about her fits neatly and remarkably into the
> authorship of the Shakespearean plays and sonnets--she is the most
> articulate, literate, educated, and motivated writer of the times with
> hundreds of connections to the source materials of the plays, and her
> love life matches the sonnet story. Because she was a woman, however,
> she was not allowed to write plays for the public theater.
> (unquote)
>
> Here are some other leading attributes of Mary Herbert I find that
> rank her a significant candidate to have written the canon.
>
> 1. She was an especially talented Renaissance Woman, allowed to be as
> accomplished as Queen Elizabeth in languages, sports, musical
> instruments, medical training, and mathematics. She knew John Dee,
> studied symbolic geometry and alchemy, and wrote letters to friends in
> musical code.
>
> 2. She, like Bacon, had literary goals for England.
> a. She completed and published her brother, Phillip Sydney,
> signal works on The Defense of Poetry, etc..
> a. She was patron of the most important literary circle in
> English history: the Wilton Circle.
> b. She is known to have influenced Donne, Marvell, Herebert, and
> Milton, although seemingly not Shakespeare.

MM:
I'm sure there was a mutual influence, Shakespeare/Mary Sidney.

> 3. She was the first woman to publish a play in English, publish
> original dramatic verse, and not apologize for publishing her
> work.
>
> 4. Scholars find links to Shakespeare in the sonnets and FF,
> and her work is known to be used as a source in the canon.
>
> I suppose Mary Herbert is seldom mentioned at h.l.a.s. because her
> case for consideration of authorship of the canon is so superior to
> the usual suspects that she embarrasses other pretensions. It might
> be fun to advance her piece on the attributions gameboard by
> mentioning some arguments scholars have debated over the years.
>
> bookburn

Michael Martin