Hanno Wember, board member of The New Shakespeare Society in Hamburg, Germany at the 2014 SOF conference in Madison, WI by Linda Theil Once again our Hamburg correspondent, Hanno Wember of Neue Shake-speareGesellschaft (New Shakespeare Society) brings word of post-Stratfordian thought in northern Europe with his report on a new book by Swedish author Martin Tegen published by Themis of Stockholm . The book is titled Vem var Shakespeare? Sonetternas gƄta , which translates: Who Was Shakespeare? The Riddle (or enigma) of the Sonnets . Wember says that part of Tegen's thesis is that the author of Shakespeare's works was a musician and he links de Vere to the works through de Vere's own musicianship. Wember provides the following information translated from the publisher's website: Who is hiding behind the name of the author Shakespeare? The first time the name of the author William Shakespeare emerges is the verse epic story of Venus and ...
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