…..Edward de Vere was the author of the greatest “Shakespeare” plays
The great Briton and world-class genius William Shakespeare was,for me and many others, clearly Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Chamberlain of England, whose descendants, by the way, now own the ancestral Norman castle of my own de Nugent family in County Westmeath, Ireland.
Castle Nugent, now property of the de Veres
As a child, every fiber in me said I could never regard anyone as a genius who was as obviously part-jewish as the actor (and selfish, convicted food-hoarder in time of famine) who was named William Shakespeare.
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Nor could I understand how an obvious jew could ever write a masterpiece like “The Merchant of Venice,” a classic of antisemitism.
Shylock in the Shakespeare play was truly an Eternal Jew, a man of gold, greed, lies, merciless vengeance, and sadistic murder.
Though the jews were technically still expelled from England at that time, all one had to do was say one has converted to Christianity to stay or get back in!
And many jews just went up to Scotland after Longshanks (Edward II) banned them in 1290…
…and came back calling themselves “Scotsmen”!
Some others, being dark of hair and with an olive tan, cunningly said they were “Welsh.”
Anyway, Margi, whose mother ran for decades a renowned Shakespeare festival in Asheville, North Carolina….
…got me to read an outstanding book by a Mark Anderson on the idea that Edward de Vere was the author of the greatest “Shakespeare” plays.
I was convinced literally halfway through the foreword already!
The word “ducats” is used repeatedly by the hate-filled jew at the end of “The Merchant of Venice.” It is a reference to the coin and currency of the medieval Republic of Venice — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducat — just as Germany once had the deutschemark and Europe currently has the euro.
(The word “ducat” is Latin and refers to the coins issued by a duke, as opposed to a king.)
In the Shakespeare play “The Merchant of Venice,” at the end of the tragedy the greedy and vengeful Jew Shylock bemoans losing his daughter and his ducats, “my daughter, my ducats,” that is, losing his fortune.
And of course readers back then were familiar with Shakespeare’s plays, unlike our numb and dumb masses of today. Here is a Venetian gold ducat of the year 1400, containing 3.5 grams of gold, and worth about US$100.
Actor Al Pacino as Shylock
Btw, one can profit from reading the great de Vere plays in a modern “translation.” Many English words have changed their meaning in 400 years.
When the jew Shylock refers to his “ancient grudge” with the gentile Antonio, he alludes to not just the longstanding personal animosity between the two men, but to the long history of semitic crimes and anti-Semitic stories and attitudes that shaped the world of the play.
The gruesomeness of Shylock’s demand for “a pound of flesh” might shock a modern audience, but tales of bloodthirsty Jews harming Christian bodies were common in medieval and renaissance Europe.
De Vere and his Elizabethan audiences probably would have known the story of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, a child whose death was committed by the jews there as a “ritual murder” in the thirteenth century, and similar true stories abounded of Jewish sacrifices of Christian children.
Likewise, the revulsion that Shylock endures because he was a money-lender was consistent with longstanding European attitudes toward Jewish moneylenders.
In medieval and renaissance Europe, moneylending was one of the few professions available to Jews, who were barred from practicing many other trades. But the fact that they charged huge interest on their loans caused them to be further reviled by Christians who believed usury, or moneylending at high interest, was sinful.
In addition to believing derogatory truths about the Jewish religion, most members of Shakespeare’s audience would have never met a Jew in real life. Elizabethan England was a homogenous society; in 1290, King Edward I had expelled all Jews from England.
Additionally, the 1594 trial and execution of Roderigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth I’s royal physician, led to a surge of anti-Semitism in England in the late sixteenth century. Lopez, a convert to the Church of England of Jewish descent, conspired for Spain to poison the queen, convicted of high treason, hanged, drawn and quartered.
The Merchant of Venice was written by De Vere when this event was fresh in the public’s mind. Furthermore, in Christopher Marlowe’s 1589 play The Jew of Malta, which critics consider a significant source for The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish character of Barabas is a murderous villain who poisons every character who stands in his way.
So now I hope you enjoy Edward de Vere with a new appreciation!
But I do want to take back our castle which his descendants now own! And put a roof on it. http://nugentcastle.homestead.com/
Shakespeare and other classical writers have been dropped from the UK school curriculum, as they are not inclusive. The gimmegrant wogs don’t like it, or, in wog-speak, “Me no like deah dem words, daz na cool”
How the gimmegrant wogs are trying to take over: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12124375/Student-calls-Mice-Men-removed-English-Literature-GCSE-course.html
Well, why did Shakey not give leading roles to all the millions of trans, jews, Pakis and negroes running around in the Britain of 1590? 😉
What is particularly insane and illiterate about this negress who is objecting to “Of Mice and Men” is that the author, John Steinbeck, was a total libtard (and atheist, btw, who denied the afterlife) and his novel condemns white racism!