Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-22

| he has built around the Earl OF Rut-
| land.
The origin OF his theory, DR.. Blelbtreu
| coniesses, was suggested to him by
! little book entitled, The New Shake
| speare Gospel" The author is a Ger
man named Avor OF Munich. The ar
gurnent Is that no mere drunken COM
edlan With little scholarly learning and
| knowledge Of foreign countries such as
ltaly, France and Denmark, could have
Wrltten the Shakespearean works
Nogor, tfth earl Of Rutland. was not
| oniy brilliant scholar but a traveller
lie was born Oct. g. 1876. When 90
years OF age he began the grand tour
! OF Europe. He visited France and
! italy. stayed at Vienna, Venice, Man
, tua, Rome and Milan; studied law at
| PAdua university and on returning To
! London settled down In Gray's Inn con-
tinuing his law studies and beginning
| hts writings,
Shakespeare. declares Or. Bleibtrue
could not possibly have made his al
legged tour OF Italy as an actor, and the
J professor asks, whore did Shakespeare
OBTAIN ms profound knowledge Of law
| ami legal matters?
! Lord Rutland accompanied the Earl
| or Essex IN an expedition 10 the Azores
thereby gaining the legal experience
| with which 20 write '"rhe Tempest. :"
He also fought In Holland, thus ex-
planning the Dutch reference in various
| plays. Lord Rutland was sentenced for
| lie to the Tower In 1901, but after two
| years was pardoned During the per-
lod OF his imprisonment no single
shakespearean drama appeared.
In 1903 Lord Rutland went 20 Dem
| marx as the representative of King
| Il ha IL
| crown prince. thereby gaining the 10.
cal color for Hamlet. According IN
! Or. Bleibtreu, this Writ explains the
| description OF the terrace at the Castle
| or Elslnore. The earl met GuIldenstern
ana Rosencranz at the Danish court
and much significance IL also attached
| 70 tho fact that the two young Barons
| Rosencranz wero fellow students of the
| earl at Padua.
The last shakespoarean dramas
"Corlolanus' and The Tempest" an
| peared In 1912. The Earl of Rutland
died June 20 or that year. This, DR..
| BleiDtreu considers. is convincing
| proof, taken In conjunction with other
! evidences, that Il was Rutland who
wrote the plays that ceased when he
| died DR., }liebtreu develops hls argu-
| ments with great thoroughness. He
explains In detail why Lord Rutland
| concealed himself behind the maine OF
| another and many other OF the mysler-
| ious threads which are interviewer in
| the now theory.
Dr. Bleibtreu's opponents point 10 thu
fact that Lord Rutland was ONLY "a
when he died; they say he was too
BUSY fshung, studying law, love max
ms travelling, imprisonment and so on
| 10 write such stupendous works Thee
assert tlQi N tho nrf
he must have written Romeo and ru-
liet when II years old ana before
he went TO Italy They also declare
that the man who wrote the plays must
/ nave been Warwickshire man for the
plays show a wide knowledge Of War
wickshlre scenery. dialect, expressions
and flowers, Lord Rutland. thev saw
lived practically all his time IN London
abroad, or at Belvoir Castle. which f. In
Lincolnshire. -
Or. Bleibtreu Is coming 10 England
very shorily-early next year IN fact
In order 10 follow up hv resea rcbas
mere, hl5 positive opinion. He do.
clares that proof must lie in the az
chives and historical papers ~ tha
house OF Manners, which now Is No
longer an earldom but tho dukedom OF
Rutland '' Vi
DR. Blelbtreu has sent a sneclal mos
sage 20 American and English shake
spearean scholars asking them 10 follow
the line OF research indicated I'm hiq
BOOK as for the professor himself he
said when interviewed. Wv
Il shall i've and die IN the hello,
that Roger Earl Of Rutland was tbe
real author of those immortal works
which have conquered the world"
The book, Of course, win be published
Withm a month perhaps. in the United
states. CHARLES OGDENs