Thomas Sackville and the Shakespearean Glass Slipper: Book Two of A 'Third Way' Shakespeare Authorship Scenario - Softcover

Feldman, Sabrina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502996472 ISBN 13: 9781502996473

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

HAS THE REAL SHAKESPEARE BEEN OVERLOOKED FOR FOUR CENTURIES? Records of William Shakespeare’s life are at odds with many authorial traits revealed in the Bard’s works, including the author’s specialized knowledge of the law, aristocratic sports, Italian geography and customs, and untranslated Italian, Greek, and French literary works. Even so, the Stratford actor kept the “Shakespeare” title for a century and a half after the authorship debate began, due to the lack of any more plausible authorship scenario. In 2011, Dr. Sabrina Feldman showed in The Apocryphal William Shakespeare that William Shakespeare is the most likely author of the ‘apocryphal’ Shakespeare plays and ‘bad quartos,’ and that members of the Elizabethan literati revered a major hidden court poet, most likely the statesman Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), who was subject to an aristocratic ‘stigma of print.’ In this sequel, Dr. Feldman introduces the case for Sackville as Shakespeare. Sackville’s youthful poetic works paved the way to the flowering of the late Elizabethan drama, and he later became a hidden poet. Despite being long overlooked as an authorship candidate, he had not only the specialized knowledge, unusual interests, habits of mind, personal traits, stylistic traits, and lifespan to be Shakespeare, but also the very high poetic ability.

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About the Author

SABRINA FELDMAN manages the Planetary Science Instruments Office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Born in Riverside, California in 1968, she received a Ph.D. in physics in 1996 from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Monrovia, California with her husband and two children.

Review

"Feldman is unquestionably convincing as a proponent of the pleasures of exploring the works from a new angle, 'discovering how many lesser known and seldom performed Shakespearean works take on an entirely new interest and meaning from a Sackvillian perspective.' ...gives Stratfordian skeptics a strong new contender for the man behind the works. An enthusiastic and unique assessment of the Shakespeare authorship question that, while still leaving the debate unresolved, may convince even open-minded Stratfordians of the plausibility of its analysis." -Kirkus Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1502996472
• ISBN 13: 9781502996473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384