Freud, the Supreme Court, and Shakespeare

There seems to be a lot more attention lately to the subject of who really wrote the works of Shakespeare.

My novel, The Shakespeare Conspiracy, of course is the story of Christopher Marlowe really having written the works.  You can check the site:  www.TheShakespeareConspiracy.com.

But items seem to be popping up all over the internet about other theories.

Brian Sweeney today wrote that "A vigorous debate continues to rage as to the true identity of the author of the Shakespearian plays and sonnets, a debate that has gone to the highest court of the land.

"A Wall Street Journal article noted that liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens rendered his verdict that 'beyond a reasonable doubt' the bard of Avon was not William Shakespeare and that the works ascribed to William Shakespeare were actually written by the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere.

"Remarkably, in rare agreement with his ideological counterpart, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia concurred with Stevens. Stevens was also enjoined in the decision by the late Harry Blackman. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was always a swing vote on the court, stayed true to form with her nuanced opinion that Shakespeare did not write the Shakespeare plays but also did not render an opinion as to who did."

Jonathan Kay's new book Among theTruthers, states that "For a while, Sigmund Freud believed that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet after his [Shakespeare's] father died. When Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams, he cited the play as a key Oedpial work. But in 1919, historians discovered that Shakespeare wrote the play before his father died. How did Freud respond? He became obsessed with the conspiracy theory that the 17th Earl of Oxford had written the plays credited to "William Shakespeare."

The world seems to suddenly have become obsessed with the real author of the Shakespearean works.