Dark Lady Players Demonstrate New Shakespeare Theory
John Hudson said "My series of columns for the arts and theater magazine The Clyde Fitch Report is showing that Shakespeare’s plays contain Jewish religious allegories, and were written as anti-Christian satires by the feminist poet Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645). One of the world's most experimental Shakespeare companies, The Dark Lady Players, are doing their next demonstration production of these allegories on 5 September 2009 in New York City in Greenwich Village."
New York, NY, July 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- John Hudson stated that "My recent articles for The Clyde Fitch Report have demonstrated that the Shakespearean plays contain anti-Christian allegories. For example, my 2008 thesis at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, demonstrated that A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains a comic satire about the crucifixion and the apocalypse. My recent article on Shakespeare's Spoofs of the Virgin Mary show that Hamlet, Othello and Romeo & Juliet contain comic satires about the Virgin Mary. For instance in Othello, Desdemona (the allegorical pregnant Mary) is smothered on stage by Othello (the allegorical Joseph) on Easter Saturday. In Hamlet, Ophelia (who is another allegorical Mary), appears with flowers that cause abortions, suggesting she has aborted the fetus. The Dark Lady Players will be performing these allegories on stage on 5 September 2009 at ManhattanTheaterSource in Greenwich Village.
Mr William Shakespeare, a Catholic, could not have created such bleak anti-Christian parodies. These allegories could not have been written by a Christian, but by a Jew, and England had only one Jewish poet, Amelia Bassano. She is best known for writing the 1600 line satirical anti-Christian poem Salve Deus (1611) in which she rewrites the gospel and puts herself in the role of priest. She has also left us her literary signatures on the plays--for instance where she associates the image of the great Renaissance poet (the swan dying to music), with the names Aemelia (in Othello) and Bassanio (in Merchant of Venice). This is impossible to explain unless she wrote those plays and put her names into them."
About Amelia Bassano: Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645) came from a family of Venetian Marrano Jews of Moroccan origin. They became musicians at the Elizabethan court and subsequently played music for the theater company that performed the Shakespearean plays. She was the so-called ‘dark lady’ of the sonnets, the mistress to the man in charge of the English theater, and the first woman to publish a book of original poetry Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611). In addition, her ‘literary signatures’, a device used in classical literature, have been found on half a dozen of the Shakespearean plays. Her authorship makes sense of many otherwise inexplicable features of the plays, such as their references to Hebrew texts, the fluency they demonstrate in Italian, their knowledge of music, knowledge about Venice, their use as sources of books written for young women, and even the unusual number of women dressing as men.
About The Dark Lady Players: This company is largely composed of LAMDA and RADA graduates, and uses early Renaissance meta-theatrical conventions to perform the allegorical layers of the Shakespearean plays. Professor Kelly Morgan, at Fitchburg State College, the former artistic director of the Riverside Shakespeare Company and founder of the Mint Theater in NYC, says this work opens up "breathtaking new avenues for performance". Professor Catherine Alexander at the Shakespeare Institute in the UK says the work is "controversial and provocative" but establishes a "legitimate new area of scholarship". Professor Melody Brooks, at Long Island University says it reveals "the deepest layer of meaning in Shakespeare's plays".
About John Hudson: Hudson has a track record of innovation in the communications industry and is now the artistic director of the experimental Shakespeare company The Dark Lady Players. He is the author of a major academic article, due to appear in The Oxfordian’s Summer/Fall issue announcing Amelia Bassano Lanier as the major author of the Shakespearean plays. Volume one of his biography of her, covering 1587-1593, titled The Dark Lady; the Woman Who Wrote Shakespeare is available on Scribd. In November 2009 he will be artist in residence at Eastern Connecticut State University. He has a M.A. (with merit) in Shakespeare from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, Stratford-Upon Avon. A major 15 page review by Michael Posner in the Canadian arts magazine, The Queen’s Quarterly in 2008 titled 'Rethinking Shakespeare' found that this new theory was as plausible as that for Shakespeare. In July 2009 NY Talk Radio broadcast his radio play ‘The Shakespeare Show’. Hudson can be reached at darkladyplayers@aol.com.
Press Contact: Barbara Rosenfeld, New York
email; thebarbara2000@yahoo.com
phone; (212) 929 0903
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Mr William Shakespeare, a Catholic, could not have created such bleak anti-Christian parodies. These allegories could not have been written by a Christian, but by a Jew, and England had only one Jewish poet, Amelia Bassano. She is best known for writing the 1600 line satirical anti-Christian poem Salve Deus (1611) in which she rewrites the gospel and puts herself in the role of priest. She has also left us her literary signatures on the plays--for instance where she associates the image of the great Renaissance poet (the swan dying to music), with the names Aemelia (in Othello) and Bassanio (in Merchant of Venice). This is impossible to explain unless she wrote those plays and put her names into them."
About Amelia Bassano: Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645) came from a family of Venetian Marrano Jews of Moroccan origin. They became musicians at the Elizabethan court and subsequently played music for the theater company that performed the Shakespearean plays. She was the so-called ‘dark lady’ of the sonnets, the mistress to the man in charge of the English theater, and the first woman to publish a book of original poetry Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611). In addition, her ‘literary signatures’, a device used in classical literature, have been found on half a dozen of the Shakespearean plays. Her authorship makes sense of many otherwise inexplicable features of the plays, such as their references to Hebrew texts, the fluency they demonstrate in Italian, their knowledge of music, knowledge about Venice, their use as sources of books written for young women, and even the unusual number of women dressing as men.
About The Dark Lady Players: This company is largely composed of LAMDA and RADA graduates, and uses early Renaissance meta-theatrical conventions to perform the allegorical layers of the Shakespearean plays. Professor Kelly Morgan, at Fitchburg State College, the former artistic director of the Riverside Shakespeare Company and founder of the Mint Theater in NYC, says this work opens up "breathtaking new avenues for performance". Professor Catherine Alexander at the Shakespeare Institute in the UK says the work is "controversial and provocative" but establishes a "legitimate new area of scholarship". Professor Melody Brooks, at Long Island University says it reveals "the deepest layer of meaning in Shakespeare's plays".
About John Hudson: Hudson has a track record of innovation in the communications industry and is now the artistic director of the experimental Shakespeare company The Dark Lady Players. He is the author of a major academic article, due to appear in The Oxfordian’s Summer/Fall issue announcing Amelia Bassano Lanier as the major author of the Shakespearean plays. Volume one of his biography of her, covering 1587-1593, titled The Dark Lady; the Woman Who Wrote Shakespeare is available on Scribd. In November 2009 he will be artist in residence at Eastern Connecticut State University. He has a M.A. (with merit) in Shakespeare from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, Stratford-Upon Avon. A major 15 page review by Michael Posner in the Canadian arts magazine, The Queen’s Quarterly in 2008 titled 'Rethinking Shakespeare' found that this new theory was as plausible as that for Shakespeare. In July 2009 NY Talk Radio broadcast his radio play ‘The Shakespeare Show’. Hudson can be reached at darkladyplayers@aol.com.
Press Contact: Barbara Rosenfeld, New York
email; thebarbara2000@yahoo.com
phone; (212) 929 0903
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