Christopher Emerson Videos : Samuel Blumenfeld on the Shakespeare Hoax, part 1

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Samuel Blumenfeld on the Shakespeare Hoax, part 1

Samuel Blumenfeld, author of The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question (McFarland 2008), interviewed by a Harvard undergrad in Cambridge, MA, on May 14, 2009. In this segment, Blumenfeld briefly discusses why playwright Christopher Marlowe is the most likely candidate to have authored the Shakespeare works, and why William Shakespeare himself is a weak candidate. Blumenfeld references Diana Price's excellent 2001 text, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem. For part 2 of this interview, www.youtube.com Samuel Blumenfeld, a World War II veteran of the Italian campaign, has authored more than ten books. He is a former editor in the New York book publishing industry and has lectured widely. His writings have appeared in such diverse publications as Esquire, Reason, Education Digest, Vital Speeches of the Day, Boston, and many others. For more on the Marlowe-as-Shakespeare theory, go to: www.marlowe-shakespeare.blogspot.com and http For a raving review of Mike Rubbo's PBS/Frontline film Much Ado About Something, which explores the Marlowe-as-Shakespeare theory, this from Salon.com: dir.salon.com For a clip from the film, with recent comments by the filmmaker: www.youtube.com Daryl Pinksen's website: marlowesghost.com Some notable Shakespeare doubters: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, John Galsworthy, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi - see www ...

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