Oxfordians and Me
Reposting on the anniversary of Edward de Vere’s death (1604). I’ve a distant memory of feeling exhausted by all of this.
I really wish Derek Jacobi wasn’t an Oxfordian. It’s one of these things that depresses me unutterably. Here he is posing with De Vere in a chummy proprietorial pose that must be a conscious echo of David Garrick’s famous “selfie” (actually by Joshua Reynolds) taken for the Shakespeare bicentenary commemorations that were hosted 5 years late in 1769.
About eighteen months ago, I became one of a number of participants in one of the more consuming and exhausting online arguments I can ever recall… you can find it here http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/04/anonymous-shakespeare-film-roland-emmerich#start-of-comments
The debate became increasingly heated, especially as one of the Oxfordians made it clear that respected Shakespearean scholars, some of whom are friends of mine, are moral degenerates, not merely intellectually flawed. The debate could not really end and had to be cut off at an arbitrary point for two reasons. Firstly, Oxfordians accept as primary evidence (indeed as the…
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