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The Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship is the view that William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), was the true author of the works of William Shakespeare. Derby is one of several individuals who have been claimed by advocates of the Shakespeare authorship question to be the true author of Shakespeare's works. The theory was first proposed in 1891, and was taken up predominantly by French writers in the mid-twentieth century. Its popularity has since declined. Mainstream scholarship dismisses all alternative candidates for authorship of the works, but accepts that Shakespeare sometimes worked in collaborations with other professional playwrights such as George Peele and John Fletcher. Some mainstream writers have taken the view that Derby may have had links to Shakespeare. Some of the Derbyite arguments about ''Love's Labour's Lost'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' have also been integrated into mainstream scholarship.〔Felicia Hardison Londré (ed), ''Love's labour's lost: critical essays'', Routledge, 1997, pp.84ff; 327.〕 ==Greenstreet== Derby's candidacy was first raised as a possibility in 1891 by the archivist James H. Greenstreet, who identified a pair of letters written in 1599 by the Jesuit spy George Fenner in which he reported that Derby was "busy penning plays for the common players." Fenner was disappointed that Derby was devoting himself to cultural pursuits rather than politics because his family were thought to be sympathetic to the Catholic cause and were possible claimants of the throne in the event of Queen Elizabeth's death. Greenstreet argued that Fenner's dismissive comment revealed that unknown works were penned by Derby. He argued that these could be identified with the Shakespeare canon. He suggested that the comic scenes in ''Love's Labour's Lost'' were influenced by a pageant of the Nine Worthies only ever performed in Derby's home town of Chester. He also argued that the comic character of the pedant Holofernes in the play is based on Derby's tutor Richard Lloyd, who wrote a dramatic poem about the Nine Worthies that appears to be parodied in Holofernes' own production on the topic in the play.〔Greenstreet, James. "A Hitherto Unknown Noble Writer of Elizabethan Comedies" , ''The Genealogist'', New Series, 1891, Vol. 7〕 Greenstreet attempted to develop his ideas in a second paper,〔Greenstreet, James, "Testimonies against the accepted authorship of Shakespear’s Plays", ''The Genealogist'', Vol.8, p. 141. London 1892.〕 but died suddenly at the age of forty-five in 1892, leaving his arguments incomplete. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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