Yogananda, Neville or Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare, as Inspiring as the Bhagavad Gita?
- but which Shakespeare?
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| Sir Henry Neville, the real author of Shakespeare's plays? |
- Bible. One verse daily — try to feel it.
- "Song Celestial." Edwin Arnold's [tedious blank verse] translation of the Hindu Bible, Bhagavad Gita.
- Passages from Shakespeare.
[East West. "THIS AND THAT: What to Read." November-December, 1925 Vol. 1. [Link]
And what if William Shakespeare had been the font man of Sir Henry Neville who wrote the plays?
A case for Neville
Shakespeare did not speak French and never travelled abroad. But Sir Henry Neville did.What if Sir Henry Neville (1564-1615) was the writer of plays that his distant, quite unschooled relative Shakespeare got the credit for? Whoever the writer of Shakespeare's plays was, it was someone who profited from the entertainment industry at a time when actors had to compete with dancing bears and bearded women to attract the public.
Shakespeare could have been a straw man for Sir Henry Neville, courtier, diplomatist, and the real writer of Shakespeare works. Henry Neville is one of several Elizabethan figures to have been discussed as the "real" Shakespeare. Yet opinions differ among scholars as among others. But there is quite a lot evidence that suggests that Neville wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare, and no one else. Very recently two academics claim to have discovered compelling evidence to prove Shakespeare was a well-paid frontman for the real author, the true creator of the bard's celebrated plays and sonnets. The two, Brenda James and William Rubinstein, say the evidence is difficult to ignore.
For centuries scholars have asked how a grammar school boy whose education was cut short at 12, and who never travelled abroad, could have gathered the breadth of learning displayed in his work. "Scholars have always been puzzled as to how Shakespeare wrote plays requiring detailed geographical and political knowledge and advanced skills in reading Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Italian sources, yet ceased his formal education at age 12." The new book reduces Shakespeare to little more than an avaricious money lender whose heroic qualities are the result of having greatness thrust upon him.
Neville was a wealthy and distant relative of Shakespeare's. He was also his contemporary, an extremely well-educated linguist who travelled widely throughout Europe. Neville had wealth, learning and opportunity; he was familiar with details of court life at home and abroad on some countries.
James and Rubinstein say there is an exact correlation between the subject of the plays and where Neville was at any given time. He was once the English ambassador to France, and events in his life also shed new light on the development of the plays. He visited Vienna, where Measure for Measure is set, and northern Italy, where a series of Italian plays, such as Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice were set. The chronology of Neville's life and the chronology of the plays always match up, asserts Professor Rubinstein.
Neville, unlike Shakespeare, had access to a detailed story of the Bermuda shipwreck of 1609, which seems to be the base of The Tempest. There are also striking similarities of style and vocabulary between Neville's private and diplomatic letters and the Shakespeare plays and poems. Word frequency analysis also reveals a statistical correlation. Besides, some scenes of Henry V are written in French, which Neville spoke, but Shakespeare did not, and so on.
New documents known to have been written by Neville while in the Tower, contain detailed notes which later ended up in Henry VIII. "There is far more evidence to suggest that Sir Henry Neville wrote the works of Shakespeare than there is of Shakespeare himself," says James.
The guru pulled it off
I do not know anyone in SRF who reads Shakespeare as part of the guru-enjoined way of life. And was the guru "the last person you would imagine able to write such matter", as Mr Rylance of the Globe theatre says about Shakespeare? There is also the Shakespeare authorship material in support of Shakespeare . . . [Summary] [Source 1] [Source 2] [Source 3]
Literature
Pesd: Clark, Sandra, ed. The Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary. Rev. updated ed. London: Penguin Books, 1999.
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