The Shakespeare Industry with Elizabeth Winkler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- A conversation with Elizabeth Winker at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 12/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
Elizabeth Winker discussed one of the greatest enigmas in literary history. Shakespeare’s personal biography has mystified academics, armchair fans, and experts for centuries. So what happens when a scholar, an actor, or any authority, suggests that perhaps those immortal plays weren’t all written by Shakespeare? Was the author an anonymous aristocrat? Or a spy? Perhaps a woman?
Elizabeth Winkler, author of Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies, explores with humor, fun, and hell-bent detection, all sorts of possibilities. But that’s only part of it. Winkler does much more than suggest alternatives; she delves into why doubters have been castigated, and thrown to the literary curb. No matter what side you’re on, Shakespeare Was A Woman And Other Heresies is more than a detective book for fans of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets-it’s a fascinating and truly entertaining analysis of literary and cultural history.
About the speaker:
Elizabeth Winkler is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Economist, among other publications. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s in English literature from Stanford University. She lives in Washington, DC.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
excellent talk. Elizabeth Winkler is witty and informative!
This was such a lovely talk, thank you for sharing
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What is the favorite candidate of Elisabeth? My latest reflections ( as a Marlowian) th-cam.com/video/l4dmC98xrL8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k1vaN0m9F-pbEEVK
No, there is plenty of evidence that Shakespeare was a vital and active member of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and, later, The King’s Men. I wish pointless presentations like this didn’t pop up in my Shakespeare searches.
sounds like you need them. theres no evidence the man from stratford, will SHAKSPER, the illiterate glovers son, wrote anything at all. he is by far the worst candidate of all the candidates.
There may well be evidence that he was an active member of these companies ( as were many, many others). However, there is almost no evidence that he, his parents or children could write, let alone pen arguably the greatest body of work in English literature. If you bothered to read this book you may recognise yourself in it.
There were numerous 'vital and active members of The Lord Chamberlain's Men' who were not playwrights. Will Shaksper's role in the company, by the evidence, is a financial one. I.e., what Broadway calls 'an angel' and Hollywood calls 'a money guy.'