humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 10, 5:59 pm, bookb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:14:22 -0800, bookb...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:44 GMT, "Alan Jones"
> >wrote:
>
> >> wrote in message
> >>news:j529t313nh1m74n52hemu35l580adajoia@4ax.com...
> >>[...]
>
> >>> 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.
>
> >>What was her practical knowledge and experience of the public stage?
>
> >>Alan Jones
>
> >Okay, she evidently sponsored an acting troop, so that's a start. I
> >was wondering how close she was to Oxford and his similar vocation.
> >I'll check a few sources and get back on this. bb
>
> A survey of available info on the Internet turns up the following
> about her knowledge and experience of the public stage:
>
> a. The play she wrote, a closet drama, The Tragedy of Antonie
> (1592), Shakespeare may have used as source material for his Antony
> and Cleopatra (1607).
> b. She was not only a patron of the arts, but of dramatists,
> mostly of the university wits sort.
> c. She had plays performed at Wilton in Wiltshire, whose archives
> are said to have once held "Mary's letter to her son, sent in 1606,
> saying "We have the man Shakespeare here - bring King James!" And that
> Heminges received thirty pounds (a huge amount) for the King's Men's
> performance of "As You Like It" played at Wilton."
> d. Her brother, Philip Sidney, had London theater involvement.
>
> http://www.shakespeareidentity.co.uk/mary-sidney-herbert.htm

MM:
Since we are discussing possibilities here, I'd like to make a
suggestion. Remember what her brother said, regarding the writing of
"Arcadia?" He wrote that it was "her commandment," to write it. This
clearly indicates that Sir Philip Sidney knew that she was God in
human form. Now, what did God want to do? It seems that in her early
years, perhaps before she started writing herself, it was her desire
to SERVE Marlowe, Shakespeare, Sidney, Greville, and others. She
might have been content to let them be in the forefront. Later, she
might have received orders to write in the "Protestan Piety," style,
to which Tom Veal mentioned. This is just something to consider, I'd
say. Of course, I'm of the opinion that William Shakespeare of
Stratford wrote the canon.

Michael Martin