<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you, Emily! I didn’t know about Leslie Stephen’s essay - must look it up straight away!<div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="">all best</div><div class="">Iolanda</div></div></div></span></div></span></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 12/feb/2016, alle ore 23:33, Emily Kopley <<a href="mailto:emily.kopley@gmail.com" class="">emily.kopley@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="line-height:16.5455px" class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">Hi Iolanda, Sara, and All,</font></span><div class=""><span style="line-height:16.5455px" class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><span style="line-height:16.5455px" class="">Woolf's father mocked the tradition of proposing alternate authorships for Shakespeare's plays: Leslie Stephen reverses this tradition in his </span></font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" class="">still-amusing "</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" class="">Did Shakespeare Write Bacon</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" class="">?" (<i class="">National Review</i> XXXVIII, 1901, 402-6; reprinted in <i class="">Men, Books, and Mountains</i>, ed. </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" class=""> S.O.A. Ullmann, Hogarth Press, 1956). And in <i class="">Night and Day</i>, Woolf adds a feminist touch to her father's mockery: </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" class="">“Beginning with a perfectly frivolous jest,
Mrs Hilbery had evolved a theory than Anne Hathaway had a way, among other
things, of writing Shakespeare’s sonnets,” an idea “struck out to enliven a
party of professors” (266 in the edition I have most easily on hand, the non-scholarly 2005 Barnes&Noble edition).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" class="">Best,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;" class="">Emily</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Iolanda Plescia <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:iolanda.plescia@uniroma1.it" target="_blank" class="">iolanda.plescia@uniroma1.it</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Dear Sara, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second issue of the new series of <i class="">Memoria di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies</i>, which I co-edit, is devoted entirely to the question of Shakespeare’s biography and identity. Nadia Fusini’s essay in that issue takes into account, among other things, Woolf’s special take on biography and life writing vs. writing life, to argue against an excessive preoccupation with everyday life details that cannot give an adequate sense of a writer’s identity. </div><div class="">You can check out the journal here: <a href="http://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/MemShakespeare/index" target="_blank" class="">http://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/MemShakespeare/index</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you haven’t yet come across it, Julia Briggs’ excellent essay ‘Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: Or, Her Silence on Master William’ is a wonderful exploration of what Shakespeare meant to Woolf, though she never wrote 'formally’ about him, for a number of possible reasons that Briggs goes into. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally, just to give my two cents, my hunch is that Woolf would not have been interested in the slightest in Shakespeare’s so-called ‘true’ historical identity (and the idea that S. was Florio, or the Earl of Oxford, or Bacon, etc. etc. has been widely disproven in serious scholarship). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All best to everyone from this part of Italy as well :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Iolanda Plescia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2016, at 23:18, Sara Spessa <<a href="mailto:spessasara@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">spessasara@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Dear Woolfians,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">recently I have heard about reasearches and texts regarding the real identity of William Shakespeare: there are persons that think that William Shakespeare was not English and they talk about the relation between Shakespeare and John Florio.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I kindly ask you if anybody know what Virginia Woolf thought on this matter. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much for your help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards from Italy,</div><div class="">Sara<span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>---<div class="">Sara Spessa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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