Did Shakespeare have the wherewithal?
Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt makes the point in Harvard Magazine
that the litt
le we know about Shakespeare’s life (e.g., being the son of a small town glover, the illiteracy of his wife and daughters, his Stratford real estate transactions, church records, and last will and testament) coupled there being no trace of any books he might have owned, diaries he might have written, or scripts in his hand, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to connect him with “the greatest body of imaginative literature in the English language.” He wonders how Shakespeare’s “seemingly ordinary existence yielded such astonishing plays.”
Which makes the case of Amelia Bassano Lanier, an extraordinary Venetian-English Jewish woman, that much more plausible. There are too many links to her life to ignore, which inspired the novel. www.ShakespearesConspirator.com
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