The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
REJECT new SHAKESPEARE.
BRITISH CRITICS RIDICULE DIR.
BLEIBTREU's "DISCOVERY."
II the Earl OF Rutland Was the real Poet
ne Must Have Begun work AZ the Age
OF lS-GrOunds 81 German Theory
Immortal william a Low Comedian.

" tne Earl OF HUtland Was Inc Real Poet
ne Must Have Begun work AZ the AGE
OF lS-GrOunds Of German Theory
Immortal william a Low Comedian.
special Gable Despatch 10 THE Sun.
LONDON, Nov. 24.-Dr. Karl Bleibtreu's
discovery Of the true Shakespeare does not
impress English ~litterati and critics. On
Analysing the German professors reasons
for his new faith they find these entirely
u~nconvincing.
DR.. Bleibtreu declares that the low
comedian, William Shakespeare, who regu-
larry got drunk at the Mermaid Tavern, =
could not possibly have the wide learning
and knowledge OF other countries which the
author Of the Shakespearian works evil
IDENTIFY Possessed. On the contrary, Roger
the Earl OF Rutland, who DIR. Bleibtreu con-
siders the real Shakespeare, is known to have
spent considerable time in France and Italy
to lave studied law at Padua and to nave
visited other parts of the world where he
would have gained the experience necessary
to enable him to write the famous plays.
His mission to Denmark in 1908 TO represent
James /. at the baptism of the Danish Crown
Prince enabled him to obtain local color for
Hamlet and he actually met Guildenstern
dAHA oAA1 ~ AAO oAh will wv
member OF the latter family were fellow
students of his at Padua. The Duke Of Rut-
land was imprisoned for political reasons
from 1901 to 1908, during which period no
Shakespearian drama appeared, while CO.
riolanus" N The Tempest, the last OF the
Shakespearian plays. appeared in 1912, the
year the Earl of Rutland died. .
The foregoing are among the most strik-
ing OF the coincide noes which have con-
WINGED DIR. Bleibtreu, whose proofs are
perhaps at least ~ strong as those OF other
Shakespeare dethroners. They are con-
sidered irresistible by DIR. Turszinsky, the
eminent German literary critic, who halls
DIR. Bleibtreu's discovery as being as
important in the realm OF literature as
Columbus's discovery Of America was
geographically and politically.
On the other hand, Prof. Dowden. who
fills the chair OF English literature at the
Unive rsity of Dublin and who is one of
the greatest living Shake spearian authori-
ties, sees absolutely no evidence to justify
DR.. Bleibtreu's theory. He has not seen
the doctors book, but judging from the
published summary he is strongly Of the
belief that il will prove another mares
nest. He points out that the Earl of Rut-
land was born in 1879, twelve years later
than Shakespeare, and If he was the author
OF the works attributed to the latter he
couldn't have been older than II or is when
he produced Loves Labor Lost, !" a circum-
stance which ia quite incredible. Prof.
Dowden repudiates DR.. Bleibtreu's de-
scription of Shakespeare as a low come dian
who got drunk re gularly and says II is wholly
unjustiiable.
Prof. Herford, another Shakespearian
authority, regards the theory a. likely
TO prove to be greater rubbish than the
Baoonian one. DIR. Abbott describes IL as
absurd and DIR. Gollancz SAYS it is rubbish.