Shakespeare Authorship
In 2013 Corbett published his biography of Sir Lewes Lewkenor, Master of the Ceremonies to James I and translator of Gasparo Contarini's The Commonwealth and Government of Venice, considered by scholars to be the basis of the Venetian settings for The Merchant of Venice and Othello. Corbett claims to have demonstrated that Lewkenor was the true author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. His initial insight came about when he noticed the similarity between Lewkenor's use of the phrase "the stings and terrors of a guilty conscience" in 1594 and Hamlet's famous "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune".
His book, Master of the Ceremonies, details the relationship between Lewkenor and Shakespeare, arguing that there is a coded Catholic message that underlies the plays and that Lewkenor's stylistic fingerprints can be found in them.
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