JANE AUSTEN AND SHAKESPEARE: MYSTERY WOMAN, MYSTERY PROBLEM

JANE AUSTEN AND SHAKESPEARE: MYSTERY WOMAN, MYSTERY PROBLEM
A Presentation by Heward Wilkinson (Vice Chairman DVS)
"The claim: A century before Looney, in Emma, Jane Austen already understood the parameters and significance of the Shakespeare Authorship Question, with the identity of de Vere as author.
She offers an interim report to history, obliquely and allegorically with plausible deniability. But the circumstantial textual evidence is considerable. I had long been writing about her as a realist author, when I chose to explore her reference to ‘some famous ox’ near the end of the novel.
With amazement, I gradually found three major trails of clues: one leading via Emma to the Touchstone passages of As You Like It; one leading to an entire layer of Spenserian and Arthurian allegory, with a reference to the First Folio; and one leading, via Jane Fairfax, to the allusion to ‘Fairfax and the starry Vere’ in Marvell’s Upon Appleton House, later also used by Melville. An entire dumbing down of English civilisation, and a loss of the magical and archetypal with the enthronement of a bourgeois author, comes into view behind these trails."

[@twothecat]

It’s a wonderful idea to consider that Jane Austen knew or suspected. Thank you for presenting this.

[@sislertx]

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