Roland Emmerich,Shakespeare And The Baconian Theory Final Part.

The new Emmerich film with its plot of the Oxonian follow on to the Baconian theory is basically an example of getting the past all wrong.Because we think it is obvious that Shakespeare is the worlds greatest writer we assume that it was somehow obvious to his contemporaries.I expect many people would say he was the greatest person alive on the planet at that time.Yet in the society he lived in he was a very minor figure.His works which we think so important were merely entertainment.It is hard for modern people who accept their own culture as the height of wisdom to realize that people in the past did not value the things we value, human rights for example of which they had little conception.The most important thing to the people of his time was religion not literature .Shakespeare is so circumspect on that subject that Catholics,Protestants ,Humanists and Agnostics have all been able to claim him as one of their own.The conspiracy theories about him are a way of filling in and fantasizing about a figure who forever remains elusive.The man from Stratford is almost as big a mystery as the man from Nazareth.As nature abhors a vacuum so the conspiracy theories have filled it. We would like to think that we know pretty much everything but we are in fact limited by time and space.The last century with its great mass of filmed material is the exception to this but the further back we go go the harder it is to be certain of anything.What we would actually like is some sort of time viewing whereby we could look into the past and settle these mysteries .An excellent novel by Colin Wilson called The Philosophers Stone describes just that.The protagonist in the novel is able to see Elizabethan London by a sort of remote viewing.What he actually sees enables him to verify the Baconian Theory !.