Tom Regnier — Did Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare? (Power Point Presentation)

On February 11, 2016, Tom Regnier gave a presentation at the North Palm Beach (Florida) Public Library on the topic, “Did Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare? Or Did Someone Else?” The speaking engagement was arranged by Margaret Robson, a resident of the area and a longtime Shakespeare enthusiast. The presentation addressed reasons why many people have doubted the traditional theory that the glover’s son from Stratford was the author of the works of “Shakespeare” and discussed theories that the works were written by someone else. An audience of 40 people (several times the usual attendance for public presentations at the Library) attended. The audience listened attentively and asked questions for over half an hour afterwards.

[StevenParrisWard]

A terrible loss to family, friends and the Oxford Shaksper Community. A wonderful presentation.

[johnrichardson]

Excellent presentation. Tom Regnier is one of the best communicators - in a very, very clear, engaging, well ordered and easily comprehensible manner - of the case against Shakspere as the author of the Shakespeare plays and poems. I think people who know little or nothing of the Shakespeare Authorship Question could not do better than to begin their journey of exploration with these talks by Tom - and also the excellent videos by Dr. Keir Cutler. For much more intricate and detailed analysis of the Edward de Vere as Shakespeare hypothesis, perhaps the most stimulating researcher is Alexander Waugh (grandson of the fine novelist, Evelyn Waugh).

[willshaw]

Tom succumbed to the corona virus last Tuesday....RIP Tom.

[johnwarner]

I was convinced after reading Looney’s Shakespeare Identified alone. The rest is icing on the cake celebrating Edward de Vere as the true and real author.

[jimsteele]

Yeah, Shakespeare is De Vere! And somehow I like Shakespeare even more now.

[robertgiles]

Several people I mentioned this controversy to instantly went into an emotional Hissy Fit. They won't even hear of it. As the old saying goes; Easier to Fool people than to tell them they have been fooled. One of the defects in humans.

[RalphEllis]

Yes, the name ‘Shakes-Speare’ referred to the goddess Athena, the spear-shaker. But the Greek Athena was Britannia - the symbol and icon of the British nation - and she is depicted upon Romo-British coins back in the 3rd century. Greek coins depict her in the same fashion as British coins. What better an author of such works, than Great Britain herself?

Furthermore, Elizabeth I dressed in the armour of Athena-Britannia, to repel the Spanish Armada with her fiery and famous speech. So these plays were actually dedicated to the royal patron of this famous but hidden author - Elizabeth herself.

P.S. Guillaume and Wilhelm both mean “Guide and Navigator” (helmsman).
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[Sugarbears]

Wow!. That about finishes the Stratford man.

[MsDormy]

I love your presentations - so brilliant and clever but more than that - so very polite to your audience! We lost so much, over the last 60 years (modesty, chastity, courtesy, the Latin Mass, architecture, milk for schoolchildren to name a few) but more than that, we lost simply being polite. Thank you Alexander - faith restored!!!

[gledwood]

I remember trying to find out about Shakespeare's life when I was still at school and although there's all sorts of legal documents there's absolutely nothing about Shakespeare the writer. We know far more about Dante and Chaucer who lived hundreds of years before than we do about Shakespeare, for example Chaucer had a scribe called Adam. But we know absolutely nothing about Shakespeare's manuscripts or who copied them or how they came to appear in book form. It also seems weird to me that a writer as eminent as Shakespeare should barely have got a mention during his lifetime or upon his death. Something fishy was going on. I'd love to know who really did write the "Works of Shakespeare".

[knuttovan]

From what I understand the real W. Shakespeare was an astute businessman  and a shareholder in a theater of performers - perhaps he fulfilled the role of what we today would call a "producer"? I would imagine the different jobs in the theater of the day were not allways clearly defined and probably overlapping as formal and specified education of which we are accustomed to today was rare.

[dekafer]

I'll be happy when this makes it permanently into history text books. The conspiracy theory that the man from Stratford was Shakespeare needs to come to an end.

[goodlookinouthomie]

I live in Stratford and I feel I have a connection (and a love) of WS. But honestly Oxford is only 20 minutes down the road so I can't say I'm hung up on the authorship. Whatever the future, Stratford will always be the town of Shakespeare especially due to the theatres and the RSC. That will not change for a very long time.

[libraryofbabel]

My favorite video on this channel. Thank you, Tom, for such an enlightening lecture!

[alcazar]

Great presentation! Not only is it really informative but it flows really well and is very entertaining!

[tomgoff]

Tom Regnier in sparkling form--so tragically soon taken from us. Tom speaks of Oxford's reputation as a writer of comedies, and this always reminds me of Samuel Johnson's remark on Shakespeare's age: that plays were produced, that by changing the "catastrophe" (Johnson's term for the conclusion) could be comedies one day, tragedies the next. So calling Oxford a comedic writer is possibly a slight oversimplification. (This is not taking anything away from Tom's excellent presentation.) Troilus and Cressida, called a comedy in a preface of the time, is really a hybrid of both forms, comedy (the farcical reductions of Trojan and Greek heroes) and tragedy (Troilus suffering from Cressida's betrayal, Achilles' unscrupulous assassination of Hector).

[dakrontu]

Most impressive presentation I have seen, of the case for Edward De Vere.

[desmanage]

Why oh why only 34, 000 views???

This is entertaining as it informative, c'mon youtubists 'get with the programme'

KP

[martynhanson]

It just so happens that Oxford University Press co-credited Christopher Marlowe of writing Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3 in 2016. Apparently they went on the research of 20 scholars to reach this conclusion. Interesting stuff, I think.

[duncanmckeown]

Very well argued...along with Alexander Waugh's discussion of the printed sonnets which bear coded references to de Vere as author, My only hesitation comes from Oxford's early death in 1604.Macbeth was clearly written for the new King James I (Scottish and with a fixation on witchcraft). James became king in 1603 and the play was first performed in 1606, it seems. Hard to believe this was de Vere's work due to its topical references? Personally I think Bacon, and perhaps others, also lent a hand.