buying silence…

…thinking about the authorship question.

How did Oxford ever buy the silence of his shill William Shakspeare? For that same matter how did Marlowe or Bacon? These three candidates were all broke for most of their lives.

Did Oxenforde give his 1,000 pond annuity he got from his sister mother father Eliza to SHaksper for his silence? and he Shhh in turn with that money bought his share of the Globe. A three thousand capacity means lots of shiny grubby coins pass hands. None of it Oxford’s or Marlowe’s or Bacon’s. That must have stung!

Funny what people do when in need of money. Sometimes they end up begging from their better-offs for it. Marlowe obviously had some clandestine slush fund set up by Walsingham . Oxford received in 1586 an annual stipend of a thousand pounds from Queen Elizabeth. Bacon ended up marrying a 14 year old heiress when he got the chance. Suddenly his money worries were over. His suga momma hit his block!

In Oxford’s case that never happened. He was a profligate and spendthrift. On quality things granted. I’m sure his taste was exquisite. Oxford was also a highly intelligent courtier with a keen interest in the esoteric forms of humanism. Plus he jousted and won, danced a galliard, and consorted with the Queen throughout their early lives.

The modern day Oxfordian dance around Elizabeth’s kinship to Oxford, or coition and reproduction with Ed de Vere confuses me. The fact is they are of an age and proximity and all slander will stick. Eliza’s life was 3 lifetimes worth of Freudian therapy. For starters her dad divorced himself from the power of Roman religion when he divorced and beheaded his wife.

Her name was Anne Boleyn. She was dutch and the mother of Elizabeth the first, Gloridiana, etc. Dad now goes on to marry no less than 4 more wives. Big Daddy dies and she lives through her half-brother’s little reign. Hij krijgt de pleuris!

Her half-sister Mary, descended from Catherine of Aragon, Henry 8th’s first wife, er-hem sorry Liz i was first, pushes off the pretender Lady Jane Grey from the throne, who 15 year old edward 6th had supported in his will, and starts a reign of Catholic retribution. Lasting 5 years. How was young Lizzie to know she would one day lead the country for 44 years starting in 1558? Now in 1553 her sister Mary had a lot to revenge upon. The protestants had been very thorough in reclaiming land from the one true etc.

The Earl of Warwick championed the desecration of Roman idols and hangings and all things bright and beautiful Church artisans had created, long before the reign of Edward, who ordered it done. He paid the price with his head under Mary 1st.

So to recap Queen Elizabeth 1st had a domineering father who beheaded her mother, a number of step-mums, a half-brother and half-sister who ruled and blocked her accession to the throne, and a religious split she had to resolve when she ascended the throne.

‘Were’t ought to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which prove more short than waste or ruining?
…
Hence, thou suborn’d informer, a true soul
When most impeached, stands least in thy control.’
Sonnet 125: 1-4, 13-14.