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Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up? It's all about Sir Henry Neville. Leave all your info here. I'll break this page into sections for our group. Leave stuff next to ur name. & we'll go from there. Remember to keep in mind that we are trying to disprove that William Shakespeare wrote some plays, so pick a play, & disprove it. Then research & see what you can come up with, to talk about Sir Henry Neville's likelihood of writing that particular play.

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 * Monica: (the tempest): Neville, unlike Shakespeare, had access to a detailed story of the Bermuda shipwreck of 1609, which seems to be the base of //The Tempest//.

http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/05/who-was-shakespeare/

OK some more background info on this guy :

They say that Neville, a rotund man nicknamed "Falstaff" by close friends, had the virtue - unlike Shakespeare, who lacked an appropriate background - of being an educated man of culture, a courtier and a well-travelled linguist

Ms James, a former English lecturer at Portsmouth University, stumbled across Neville after cracking the secret of the mysterious dedication to Shakespeare's sonnets. She claims that hidden in the text is a clue that points to Neville

http://ant.sillydog.org/blog/2005/000891.php

Sir Henry’s birth and death dates (1564 - 1615) are virtually identical to those of his pseudonymic front-man, William Shakespeare. THUS, WITH SIR HENRY NEVILLE, THERE IS NO IMPLAUSIBLE MIS-MATCH WHEN IT COMES TO DATING THE PLAYS AND NO IMPLAUSIBLE STRETCHING OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE SPAN, ETC.

http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=9

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/much-ado-about-identity-as-scholars-claim-a-diplomat-was-the-real-shakespeare-509637.html Castell this one is rather interesting ,you might want to take a look at it.


 * Renee (Hamlet): I wont have the computer until sunday and wont be at school the rest of the week, so if you need to contact me before then, than you can text me at 3028980803.
 * There is evidence to suggest that Neville wrote many of the Sonnets, including the ones that were addressed to Lord Southampton, while confined to the Tower.
 * It is also here that Neville wrote the play, "Hamlet." Later, he published "Shake-speares Sonnets" and wrote the dedication himself. He dedicated the sonnets to Lord Southampton.
 * A notebook kept by Neville while in the Tower contained detailed notes that ended up as part of the play, "Henry VIII."
 * The Tower experience also explains the shift in the focus of Shakespeare's plays from histories and comedies to the great tragedies, all of which were written after Neville was released from the Tower when James I became the king.
 * a document was discovered in 1867 that shows that Neville practiced writing William Shakespeare's name.

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(The chronology of the plays coincides with the emergence of Neville’s life events)
 * Sumeet: specifics ( they were born and died at very close time periods)

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 * Sir Henry’s birth and death dates (1564 - 1615) are virtually identical to those of his pseudonymic front-man, William Shakespeare. THUS, WITH SIR HENRY NEVILLE, THERE IS NO IMPLAUSIBLE MIS-MATCH WHEN IT COMES TO DATING THE PLAYS AND NO IMPLAUSIBLE STRETCHING OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE SPAN, ETC.
 * The chronology of the plays coincides with the emergence of Neville’s life events


 * 1) Neville had access to restricted sources witnessed in the plays: e.g. the documents of his Plantagenet and other ancestors including John of Gaunt in //Richard II//, Warwick the King Maker in //Henry VI parts II// & //III//, and King Duncan of Scotland in //Macbeth//. As an officer in the Virginia Company, he was able to use a **private** letter as a source for //The Tempest.//
 * 2) Neville was multi-lingual, (some sources used for the plays were only available in French/Italian/Greek/Spanish etc, which we have no reason to believe Shakespeare knew.)
 * 3) Neville became French Ambassador at just the time the French-based //Henry V// was written.
 * 4) 1601 marks an abrupt change in the plays from histories/comedies to the great tragedies. In 1601Neville was in the Tower - under threat of execution for his part in the Essex Uprising.
 * 5) The Northumberland Manuscript, discovered in 1867, has Neville’s name and ‘family motto poem’ at the top, plus repeated practising of William Shakespeare's signature lower down.
 * 6) My research uncovered some ‘lost’ documents, including one he wrote in theTower of London (1601-1603). Its contents tie in with the plays, including passages later used in //Henry VIII,// **but the notes had been written by Neville eleven years before that play was performed.**
 * 7) In 1623, the writer Ben Jonson was involved in putting Shakespeare's name on the First Folio edition of the Plays. Jonson was then employed by a college in London associated with the Neville family. **Brenda James has now discovered an extensive document by Jonson suggesting he knew about the 'front man' arrangement and that he helped promote the fiction of Shakespeare's authorship at the behest of the Nevilles.**
 * 8) The character Falstaff was partly based on Neville himself. Falstaff was initially going to be called '**Oldcastle**', an antonymic pun on Neville's (‘New Town’ or **‘New Villa**’) name.
 * 9) Neville was an international trader: this is reflected in //The Merchant of Venice// and //The Comedy of Errors.// Neville resided on the Continent (1578 - 1583). Brenda’s recent research proves that he had overwhelming reasons, during those years, to visit the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, and Elsinore (Denmark) in pursuit of his newly-inherited iron and ordnance business.

__//**Brian add this wording to the slide show of pictures with the book**//__ **TO. THE. ONLIE. BEGETTER. OF .** **The Dedication contains 144 letters. The //first// logical 'setting' of these is therefore in a 12 x 12 matrix. This produced a second line which is a perfect anagram of TEST THE FORGE. [Neville inherited and ran the Mayfield Iron works in Sussex.] When the columns of the matrix are re-arranged to form this sentence, then the name HENRY NEVIL appears in the shape of a hammer. It is hard to imagine that mere coincidence could be so elastic, especially when Henry Neville's name had already appeared in other, mathematically-determined layouts too, as is fully explained in the book.)** []
 * THESE . INSVING . SONNET S .**
 * Mr .W. H . ALL . HAPP INESSE .**
 * AND . THAT . ETERNITIE .**
 * PROMISED .**
 * BY .**
 * OVR . EVER-LIVING . POET .**
 * WISHETH .**
 * T HE .WELL-WISHING .**
 * ADVENTVRER . IN .**
 * SETTING .**
 * FORTH .**
 * Paul: Henry Neville and the Shakespeare code
 * There was code in shakespeares writings that depicted the true author Henry Neville
 * Brian:

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