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The Oxfordian Theory and Cultural Practice in Anonymous
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This essay surveys the Oxfordian theory (along with the Prince Tudor theory as its subdivision) represented in Roland Emmerich's film Anonymous. The Oxfordian theory--which considers Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the writer of 37 plays and poems ascribed to William Shakespeare--in the film develops a double-edged conspiracy theory as it endorses at once conservative and progressive political notions. First, the film develops a conservative and even snobbish belief founded on an elitist prejudice as it attempts to demonstrate that Shakespeare cannot be the author of his great plays and poems because, as a son of an illiterate glove maker, he did not receive any formal education. The movie depicts Shakespeare as an half-illiterate scoundrel, and it is an unashamed expression of a type of elitism and class prejudice. Nonetheless, the movie, as a form of conspiracy theory, is progressive and shows radical features as it criticizes established literary studies--in particular, it takes issue with the Shakespeare studies that privilege themselves shielded by institutionalized education and literary authority. In fact, Anonymous is a discursive crystallization that subsumes what established literary studies of Shakespeare have rejected. Paradoxically enough, while institutionalized literary authority such as universities and research foundations have rejected their theories, the Oxfordians have criticized the modest educational backgrounds of Shakespeare. In this regard, Anonymous is an interesting cultural phenomenon where a conservative class prejudice is circulated in the form of subversive cultural forms.
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This essay surveys the Oxfordian theory (along with the Prince Tudor theory as its subdivision) represented in Roland Emmerich's film Anonymous. The Oxfordian theory--which considers Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the writer of 37 plays and poems ascribed to William Shakespeare--in the film develops a double-edged conspiracy theory as it endorses at once conservative and progressive political notions. First, the film develops a conservative and even snobbish belief founded on an elitist prejudice as it attempts to demonstrate that Shakespeare cannot be the author of his great plays and poems because, as a son of an illiterate glove maker, he did not receive any formal education. The movie depicts Shakespeare as an half-illiterate scoundrel, and it is an unashamed expression of a type of elitism and class prejudice. Nonetheless, the movie, as a form of conspiracy theory, is progressive and shows radical features as it criticizes established literary studies--in particular, it takes issue with the Shakespeare studies that privilege themselves shielded by institutionalized education and literary authority. In fact, Anonymous is a discursive crystallization that subsumes what established literary studies of Shakespeare have rejected. Paradoxically enough, while institutionalized literary authority such as universities and research foundations have rejected their theories, the Oxfordians have criticized the modest educational backgrounds of Shakespeare. In this regard, Anonymous is an interesting cultural phenomenon where a conservative class prejudice is circulated in the form of subversive cultural forms.
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