Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan: English-Russian Relations in Love’s Labours Lost - Rima Greenhill

[@granadosable]

Excellent discusion.

[@wynnsimpson]

Wow wow wow. Another piece of the puzzle that someone close to the English court (Edward Devere) wrote Love's Labours Lost! The guy from Stratford could not possible know all of these details. The secret negotiations for the marriage of Mary Hastings to Ivan began in 1582. If you are an Oxfordian you should listen to Rima's talk despite her somewhat difficult-to-understand accent.

[@joecurran2811]

Shaskper would have been about 9 when this happened.

[@ronroffel1462]

Thanks for another insightful talk on what is perhaps the most complex of "Shakespeare's" comedies. Rima's scholarship covers a neglected facet of Elizabethan history as it relates to the play. This is more proof that doubters like Oxfordians are advancing Shakespearean research into the 21st century. Stratfordians have painted themselves into a corner from which they cannot escape because they have attributed the plays and poems to the wrong man. No commoner could have had the insider's information on the Russian envoys found in the play. It was not common knowledge and in a time when newspapers were usually single broadsheets there was no way someone like the Stratford businessman could have known it. Only someone who was among the highest strata of society would have had access to such knowledge.

[@GraniteQuarrier]

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