tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post9067093664711557269..comments2023-10-30T09:48:59.679-04:00Comments on "Shakespeare" By Another Name: Zeitgeist watch: The casting call for "Ed Devery"Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01959807858303615531noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-1341292908140764402011-02-21T21:44:37.622-05:002011-02-21T21:44:37.622-05:00A postscript to add how, shall we say, curious it ...A postscript to add how, shall we say, curious it is that "Tudor heir" theories always seem to circle around Liz Tudor's secret baby boys. Seems oddly ironic, too, given Elizabeth's father's little problem along similar lines.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01959807858303615531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-62627613471290112082011-02-21T21:40:46.623-05:002011-02-21T21:40:46.623-05:00Michael and CGE -- thank you both for your take on...Michael and CGE -- thank you both for your take on this. I greatly appreciate feedback that keeps me questioning my own suppositions and theories. <br /><br />And on that note, yes, Looking in the Distance, illegitimate son-of-Queen Elizabeth theories have been circulating about Edward de Vere, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Rutland, the Earl of Essex and even (if you look back into anti-Stratfordian history) Francis Bacon. There are more such suppositions where the above came from too. <br /><br />I readily admit there would almost need to be some big and burning political issues behind any authorial concealment like the kind Oxfordians suggest happened with Edward de Vere. I name a few in SBAN -- e.g. de Vere portraying the most powerful people in England in very unflattering terms in the plays. <br /><br />But whereas the circumstantial evidence is, I think, very strong in favor of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare," I find it not so overwhelming (to put it mildly) for the "Prince Tudor" theories. <br /><br />I don't want to say I'm opposed to these ideas. The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods saw some strange things going on in the halls of power. I just haven't seen enough convincing evidence to make me think *this particular* breed of strange thing was lurking in the shadows. <br /><br />I'm all for researching the leads that Oxfordians find most fruitful. But for me, for now, the Tudor heir story is either a) something for its partisans to gather more evidence for or b) something that's about to be the subject of a MAJOR Hollywood movie at the end of September. <br /><br />And b), of course, is another story altogether. One this blog will be continuing to chronicle in the coming months.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01959807858303615531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-59915161741427481152011-02-20T11:17:08.550-05:002011-02-20T11:17:08.550-05:00I played the role of Ed Devery in a good productio...I played the role of Ed Devery in a good production of Born Yesterday in Boston in the early 1980s. The play, written at the end of WWII, is unusually intelligent - and political. By the time the movie was made, McCarthyism had supervened and the open political satire had disappeared. That Kanin had De Vere in mind is suggested by the curious fact that there are two characters in the play with the name 'Ed' - not something a playwright would usually do. (It bothered the moviemakers enough that they changed the character's name to 'JIM Devery.')CGEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09728526164096714087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-34054819849293686892011-02-19T14:12:39.708-05:002011-02-19T14:12:39.708-05:00I just watched the 1950 film version of Born Yeste...I just watched the 1950 film version of Born Yesterday, starring Judy Holliday and William Holden. It's a terrific film, and Holliday's Oscar-winning performance still shines. But the Ed Devery character has only a minor presence, and I didn't see any connection with "our" Edward. Just a coincidence, I think.Michael Prescotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12963295565160636175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-42954782135050945242011-02-15T12:11:51.804-05:002011-02-15T12:11:51.804-05:00I have read that De Vere may possibly have been th...I have read that De Vere may possibly have been the bastard son of Queen Elizabeth. Would this not be a plausible explanation of Shakespeare's concern over the loss of his name, his defense of bastards, his grant of money by Queen Elizabeth, and his protection from retribution by those in power whom he ridiculed?Looking in the Distancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09455832657337053810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12206508.post-54200421017941951512011-01-26T17:34:59.422-05:002011-01-26T17:34:59.422-05:00Information on the two movies based on the play:
h...Information on the two movies based on the play:<br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042276/<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106466/<br /><br />The role of "Jim Devery" in the 1950s version could be a typo.Ankahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686077822231474388noreply@blogger.com