Wednesday 25 April 2012

"Bloody" Propaganda

ElizabethI : 800 a year each year of her reign,30,000. 
Mary Tudor :283 total for reign.This is so called Bloody Mary?

HenryVIII:30,000.


Shakespear is good for many things tradgedy,drama,comedy, ect.
What is often missed is he is/was writing for the Tudor court of Elizabeth1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare
I consider him a "spin doctor", he can't do positive history plays unless her realives get a postive ,smypathic view!
"Shakespeare was living in the reign of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the house of Tudor, and his history plays are often regarded as Tudor propaganda because they show the dangers of civil war and celebrate the founders of the Tudor dynasty."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_history
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gg7dt
Another point with all the questions about authourship of Shakespear is ,He may have been Chatolic .
"members of Shakespeare's family were Catholics, at a time when Catholic practice was against the law.[179] Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street. The document is now lost, however, and scholars differ as to its authenticity.[180] In 1591 the authorities reported that John Shakespeare had missed church "for fear of process for debt", a common Catholic excuse.[181] In 1606 the name of William's daughter Susanna appears on a list of those who failed to attend Easter communion in Stratford.["
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_religion


William Byrd another Catholic "  regularly appeared in the quarterly local assizes to pay heavy fines for recusancy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd

WWW Wednesday {25th April 2012}



To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


1.I'm not reading anything at the moment.
2.I just finished BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE by Lee Child recently.http://www.leechild.com/




3.Next? I really don't know.