Tomb search could end riddle of Shakespeare's true identity [Fulke Greville]

Telegraph ^ | Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | David Harrison

[SunkenCiv]

Parishioners at St Mary's church in Warwick have sought permission to examine the contents of the 17th century monument built by Fulke Greville, a writer and contemporary of Shakespeare who some believe is the true author of several of the Bard's works... the search has been prompted by the discovery by an historian of clues in Greville's writings which suggest he had several manuscripts buried there, including a copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A radar scan of the sarcophagus has already indicated the presence inside of three "box like" shapes. The searchers believe these could contain documents and a further examination is now being proposed which they hope will finally prove the link between Greville and Shakespeare. The initial search, using ground penetrating radar, was approved by the parochial church council and the diocesan council. The team now wants to use an endoscope -- a tiny video camera on a long thin tube -- to be inserted into the monument to test his claims... The parochial council also wants the sarcophagus to be opened because it believes that any new evidence will bring extra visitors and save the church, the foundations of which date back 900 years, from bankruptcy... However, the diocesan advisory committee and the Church Buildings Council are resisting the new search, on "ethical grounds" and a final decision could now be taken by the diocese's consistory court. The search has been prompted by the work of the historian AWL Saunders. He believes there are several clues suggesting Greville, who is a distant ancestor, is responsible for writing a number of Shakespeare's works.

[SunkenCiv]

chrono sort, Shakespeare keyword, very little editing:

• "Twelfth Night", or What You Will
• SHAKES-QUEER? New Evidence Emerges to Prove William Shakespeare may be Gay
• Odd Portrait Has Many Guessing Shakespeare Was Gay
• A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery
• Dessert First
• Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
• Why Shakespeare Is For All Time
• Westcott and Hort part 1
• Shakespeare on War
• The Feast of St. Crispian (Vanity)
• Band of Brothers
• "We Few, We Happy Few, We Band Of Brothers": In Honor Of Messrs. John Howard And Tony Blair
• Spoiled Milk
• Aziz exposed as Nixon and Woody Allen buff
• Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana
• Yellow books should be for phone numbers (Shakespeare Needs No Dumbing Down)
• Original American Sin
• Shakespeare Isn't P.C. (Thought Police Rewrite Textbooks)
• Joseph Sobran Examines Martin Luther King's Dream -- 40 Years Later
• Mrs. Bush Attends Polish Fund-Raiser
• A little Shakespeare to go with the war.
• A little Shakespeare to go with the War
• A little Shakespeare to go with the war
• A little Shakespeare to go with the war
• THE POST-MODERNIST FOOLS AMONG US -- Falstaffs At The Gates...
• A little Shakespeare to go with the war
• At Least Shakespeare's Tyrants Went Down Fighting
• Church where Shakespeare is buried beneath under threat
• Farewell Mapplethorpe, Hello Shakespeare (Roger Kimball on NEA, the W. way)
• Shakespeare and suicide bombers [To barf or not to barf. That is the ...]
• Vanity -- The Elections in Spain
• Remember Gargoyles; A Very Good Cartoon Series (Vanity)
• We American People... (Shakespeare's Ultimatum for Bin Laden)
• UK Muslims get Shakespeare boost
• UK Muslims use Shakespeare to boost image [ULTRA-BARFOLA]
• The Classics in the Slums (The Value of Literature)
• Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context [movie review: The Merchant of Venice]
• Grammar for Smarties("Why Oh Why" books' success prove we're serious about the care of our language)
• ITALIAN DUO'S FATE LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET...
• Homer, Shakespeare, Pope, and George Bush
• A Classic Anti-Semite? Try William Shakespeare
• People Don't Write That Way Anymore [Freeper-run magazine article]
• "By the Dawn's Early Light"
• Sinner Survival
• Statistical Tests Are Unraveling Knotty Literary Mysteries (Oz, Federalist Papers, etc.)
• Did Shakespeare teach at House?
• 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE!!!
• Shakespeare caper doesn't end well (FAMED PORTRAIT OF PLAYWRIGHT IS A FRAUD; 200 YEARS TOO YOUNG)
• Never has Shakespeare shown such relevance
• CROWE SLAMS FIENNE'S SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCE
• ON THE DECLINE OF INVECTIVE
• The Gunfight at Not-OK Corral
• Class War Over Shakespeare's Identity
• 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
• Goths, chavs and Hell's Kitchen for Shakespeare
• Shakespeare in the Park
• Record-Breaking Shakespeare Event
• In love with Shakespeare (RSC plans to perform all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in a single year)
• The Fry Cook Rule for the Supreme Court
• The real sound of Shakespeare? (Globe theatre performs Shakespeare's plays in Shakespeare's dialect)
• Mayor is carrying a shotgun--all in the interest of theater (Los Gatos)
• Selections from the Last Will and Testament of William Shakespeare 1616
• All the world's a Shakespeare stage (Playwright's popularity soars as audiences flock to festivals)
• Literature: To be -- or not to be -- Shakespeare
• First Shakespeare Play in 25 Years Delights Afghan Audience
• The Complete Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Lady (Schizophrenia, Addiction Reduce Once-Promising Actress/Writer To Street Theater)
• Weezer Tease Fans With Shakespeare Split Riddle
• Hamlet Made a Muslim Prince in Post 9/11 Adaptation
• Clare Asquith, author of "Shadowplay", on EWTN's The World Over Live -- 8pm Friday 9/16
• Shakespeare, The Secret Rebel
• The Bible, Shakespeare and public schools
• Literature: Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
• Shakespeare Online
• A Bard by any Other Name
• Ken Dodd 'tickled' by Shakespeare (Lectured Scholars on Shakespeare. Did he? No, Doddy)
• The Catholic Bard
• Was the Bard really the Bard?
• Diplomat 'was real Shakespeare' (latest theory on "true" Shakespeare in new book)
• Teachers learn how to better teach Shakespeare
• Much ado about 'fake' Shakespeare portrait!
• Halloween Dreams
• Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
• Experts plan to exhume Shakespeare's body
• In Oregon, Brushing Up Their Shakespeare, Helped Along by Software
• For Virginia-DC-Maryland Posters
• RSC in school Shakespeare drive
• Ben Jonson's encomium to William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Died of Rare Cancer? (British Gallery Unveils Shakespeare Image)
• Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
• (Australian) Elite girls' school 'kills the study of literature' (Shakespeare goes Marxist)
• There's much ado about life and works of Shakespeare
• The Modern Elizabethan (On Shakespeare's Birthday)
• The Shakespeare Code
• Age no handicap for 105-year-old fisherman 105-year-old man still hauling in fish (My kinda guy)
• English schools dumb down Shakespeare
• Reconstructing Shakespeare (What Did The Bard Look Like? Exhibit Offers Six Possible Answers)
• Heads she's homely; tails he's ugly
• Needing FReeper Help
• Video Game Aims To Hook Children On Shakespeare
• Diagnosing Lear
• Anti-Israel theme imposed on Egyptian Merchant of Venice
• 'Merchant [of Venice]' a Tough Sell (The PC-ification of Shakespeare)
• American group brings Shakespeare to Stockholm's Drottningholm Palace
• Coalition aims to expose Shakespeare
• Upon Saint Crispin's Day: My Two Cents on Honoring What's Honrorable
• Mystery Of The 'missing' Shakespeare Portrait
• BBC to film all 37 of Bard's plays (12-year Shakespeare project could top $200 Million)
• Shakesqueer
• Shakespearian Dystopias
• Tantalizing hints of Shakespeare
• Shakespeare came from Wales
• Words coined by Shakespeare
• Shakespeare was a woman: Expert
• Man arrested over Shakespeare theft (Book valued at over $30m stolen ten years ago)
• Edward Achorn: Was the immortal Bard a Catholic?
• Neither a Borrower Nor Lender Be (Frivolous, demagogic liberalism catches up with America.)
• Shakespeare and Pie
• 'The Simpsons' Go Shakespearean
• Bard's Genius Slips Through Prison Bars
• Canal cruises into past prove Shakespeare was right [Italian Medieval/Renaissance canals reopening]
• Shakespeare and Deep England
• Animalistic Shakespeares Explored
• Lenny Henry on playing Othello
• Shakespeare's Feminist Critics
• Shakespeare painting is 'only surviving portrait from his lifetime'
• Only Shakespeare Portrait Painted During His Lifetime Is Revealed in London (video)
• Shakespeare Scholars Say the Bard was Catholic?
• Babes With Blades Presents An All-female Production Of MACBETH 4/27-5/30
• Justice Stevens Renders an Opinion on Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays
• Unleash thy inner bard on 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day'
• Shakespeare for Presidents (Previous Presidents Loved Shakespeare)
• Justice Breyer Makes Chicago Acting Debut as Ghost in Hamlet
• There is no joy in Mudflats...

[hinckley buzzard]

Believe it or not, when I was securing an elite liberal arts education at Bowdoin College, I actually studied the poetry of Fulke Greville. He wasn't Shakespeare, not by a damn sight.

[Constitution Day]

Key sentence:

The parochial council also wants the sarcophagus to be opened because it believes that any new evidence will bring extra visitors and save the church, the foundations of which date back 900 years, from bankruptcy...

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Ben Jonson, rival and contemporary (and good friend) of Shakespeare, helped collect, organize, and edit the First Folio of Shakespeare's works. He also contributed one of a number of dedicatory introductions, in which he referred to Shakespeare by name, and called him "sweet swan of Avon", and best known perhaps is this tribute -- "He was not of an age, but for all time !". Guess Ben Jonson was one of the masterminds of the conspiracy. ;') I had the pleasure of getting a great price on that Michael Wood documentary on Shakespeare, and have watched it twice since July. There's a cool segment where a couple of British stage actors who mostly work in the Elizabethan idiom joke about the differences between Christopher "Kit" Marlowe -- who has also been claimed to have been the "real" author of Shakespeare's works -- and Shakespeare. After one gives an illustrative example (soliloquies), the other says, you'll never find an actor who believes that they were the same person. :') A fun Oh So Mysteriouso topic, worth a ping I think. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[SkyDancer]

Francis Bacon?????

[CaptRon]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon.

[Auntie Dem]

Francis Bacon?????

Do you mean "Six Degrees of Separation" Bacon?

[VR-21]

I believed it to be Edward Devere (7th Earl of Oxford). Joseph Sobran made a good case for him in Alias Shakespeare (at least I thought so).

[BIGLOOK]

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

It's a Fulkeing tradegdy.

[Alex Murphy]

I thought the true author of Shakespeare’s Works was an infinite number of monkeys?

[SunkenCiv]

Exactly. :’) From that standpoint, I don’t begrudge them. Part of the reason for the survival of the King Arthur legend is due to a promo campaign by Glastonbury.

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, lucky bum. ;’)

[Parley Baer]

As far as the books go my bet is on the termites.

[SunkenCiv]

IBTZ. ;’) :’D That guy had a little euphony problem with his name, maybe that’s why he devoted his life to writing some of the world’s greatest masterpieces under an assumed name. ;’)

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

"Fulke spent the equivalent of £300,000 today on a marble sarcophagus at St Mary's. No man would build something like that and leave it empty. There is definitely something down there and we want to find out what it is."

What means this? Isn't Lord Dedboddy in there?

[SunkenCiv]

That would explain “Timon of Athens” and “Titus Andronicus”...

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, maybe he was ticked off at his heirs and wanted to leave them destitute. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Heh...

[SunkenCiv]

:’) An older title (I think circa 1960), bought it used, I read a year or more ago, called “The Hidden Shakespeare”, thoroughly examines the idea that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, and traces all of this lunacy back to a nutty book from about 150 years ago (if memory serves). One book by one wackadoo has turned into a cottage industry serving generations of cranks. :’)

[Grimmy]

Shakespeare was the nom dewhatever of Guy Fawkes when Fawkes was working his propaganda mischief.

I thought everyone knew that?