I urge everyone who cares about the Authorship Question to getit while you can! Get it, read it, and talk about it! Whether yourinterest is to acquire a deeper understanding of some of the moreknotty issues or to argue effectively with Stratfordians, PeterMoore is your man, for no one has ever put the argument moresuccinctly. Stephanie HughesHis work deserves to find its way onto library shelves as well asinto the hands of sympathetic readers. All Oxfordians can andshould take pride as well as pleasure in it. Warren HopeThis book should form an essential part of every Oxfordian’slibrary: many of its conclusions force ›orthodox‹ opinions intologically impossible distortions. Gary Goldstein’s deep care andattention as editor and Uwe Laugwitz’s enthusiasm for the productionand publishing of the project are some compensation forthe loss of the diamond brain of Peter Moore. Richard Malim

The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised

Name: The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised
Author: Peter R. Moore

Studies in Shakespeare

von Peter R. Moore, herausgegeben von Gary Goldstein

Literary historian Peter Moore examines Shakespeare’s greatest works within their Elizabethan setting to discover that:

* The plays were written from 1585 to 1604 and not 1590 to 1613, as commonly supposed * The Rival Poet was Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex and the Fair Youth was Henry Wriostheley, Earl of Southampton * Shakespeare’s share of Two Noble Kinsmen was written the last year of Elizabeth’s life—and ended with her death. * The dramatist attacked in Ben Jonson’s 'On Poet Ape' was Thomas Dekker and not William Shakespeare * Shakespeare used the Bible’s two-witness rule involving murder in designing Hamlet’s inner dynamic * Shakespeare adapted the Earl of Surrey’s Psalm 8 as well as Piers Plowman in writing Hamlet’s soliloquies * Shakespeare set Christian and pagan philosophies against each other in King Lear and mediated the debate through the concept of nature * Shakespeare used ancient and modern notions of time and Epicureanism in devising Macbeth’s structure
The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised publishes more than two dozen papers and monographs that originally appeared in peer reviewed journals in Europe and the United States from 1993 to 2006. It is the testament of one of the most brilliant Shakespeare scholars of his generation.