SAT Conference 2019 - 9 - Hank Whittemore - Shakespeare’s Final Tragedy and His Triumphant Rebirth

Hank Whittemore, author of 'The Monument' presents 'After the Rebellion: Shakespeare’s Final Tragedy and His Triumphant Rebirth' at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust conference 2019, Shakespeare, Essex and Authorship.

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[taihastings]

Like a bell in it's beautiful clarity...true enlightenment. 🌟

[willshaw]

This man may go down in history as the greatest literary detective since Thomas Looney himself. And discovering the chronological synchrony within the Sonnets may reveal the greatest scandal in Elizabethan history, if not British history. Read "The Monument."

[wayneferris]

Thank God this was recorded for time and truth.

[martinroberts]

Scholarship of the first order, representing decades of diligence. Discovering Hank Whittemore's analysis of the Sonnets, and their purpose, is a truly gratifying encounter.

[michaelpisapia]

This is a another example of Hank's ability to synthesize his outstanding scholarship into a concise and compelling presentation. The content is wonderful and helps us all understand the sonnets as Oxford's Monument. Keep up the excellent work!

[duncanmckeown]

I've read Hank's books...but hearing him speak makes the veracity of his argument even clearer! I'm now convinced that the majority of these sonnets were written to Southampton while he was in prison. Prince Tudor theory plausible? Pretty much inescapable if you have gone this far down the rabbit hole! This makes the tragedy even more poignant...since the possibility of a crown would also have been forfeited in the Faustian pact with Cecil and James.

[MrMartibobs]

Great lecture. Shame it's only had a couple of thousand views in over a year. Anyone would think people were giving up on the AQ.

[StarShippCaptain]

"I shall ever be True . . ." "I shall ever be VERE!"

[EndoftheTownProductions]

John Heminges, Henry Condell, and Richard Burbage, three actors of The Lord Chamberlain's Men, a famous acting company that included William Shakespeare, were given money by William Shakespeare of Stratford in his Last Will and Testament in 1616. Two of these actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, were responsible for having 36 of Shakespeare's plays published in the First Folio in 1623. Ben Jonson's eulogy in the First Folio clearly praises Shakespeare as a great writer. He states that "thy writings to be such, /As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much." Heminges and Condell also praise Shakespeare as a writer, stating that "he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who onely gather his works, and give them you, to praise him." These are "his works" and "his papers" that they are publishing. He is clearly presented as the writer of these works in the First Folio. The Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare of Stratford clearly connects him with the 1623 First Folio through Heminges and Condell and it is clear that Shakespeare is presented as the author of the plays.

[peterzoeftig]

An amazing and powerful proof of the real story. Thank you Hank Whittemore.

[davidjames]

Case closed.

Thank you for the brilliance.

There will be a Netflix series, communicating this Shakespearean tragedy to the world at large.