MARY FITTON:
I AM SHAKESPEARE


Co-authors of the Shakespeare Sonnets were Mary Fitton and William Herbert, Earl Pembroke, who commissioned the First Folio to celebrate his mother, Mary Sidney’s, sixtieth birthday.

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Shakespeare, the authorship question; solved.

I am Mary Fitton, well that’s my alias, I could be Shakespeare! Over twenty years ago in a lightbulb moment I realised that the line in Shake-speare Sonnet 18, Rough winds do shake the Darling buds of May, referred to someone called May or Mary; her buds – slang for teats. Twenty years’ research later I answer the question that has puzzled so many; who wrote the Shakespeare plays and poetry? It wasn’t Shaxper; there is another Stratford on another Avon.

I present the answer in four documents and a spoiler.

The Spoiler:  facts which in a nutshell answer who or what was Shakespeare.

The Wight in Me: The title, from Sonnet 50; the author is pregnant and therefore a woman. A distillation of the file Shakespeare

Shakespeare:  The context of the Shakespeare Works, from 1560 to the present day.

The Darling Buds of Maie: The Sonnets of two lovers masked behind the Shake-Speare pseudonym.

Delusion: Why vesting Genius in Shaxper is delusional.  

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The Wight in Me Shakespeare The Darling Buds of Maie Delusion Cast
Spoiler – A Matrix of Facts

• Will-shake-spear (Willy Wanker) was a euphemism for onanism; a joke which became a pseudonym, a brand name and an alias.

• William Herbert, before he became Earl Pembroke, used the alias to tread the boards alongside his friend, actor Richard Burbadge.

• His mother, Mary Sidney, Countess Pembroke, was a formidable influence on dramatic arts; her Players performed the earliest Shakespeare plays.

• To celebrate Mary Sidney’s sixtieth birthday in 1623, William Herbert sponsored a compilation of thirty-six plays, known today as the First Folio.
Playwrights, in teams, wrote the plays, mainly to be performed at Court.

• William Herbert was Master W H of the Sonnets. He composed the Dark Lady Sonnets, addressing them to Mary Fitton whom he had left strumpeted with a bastard child. Mary Fitton composed the first 126 sonnets of which the first seventeen begged Pembroke to marry (her).

• A Lover’s Complaint, printed following the Sonnets, is its prequel and recounts the virgin Mary Fitton’s seduction.

• The copy of the Shaxper will in the Probate Court records is a forgery. It means there is no admissible evidence that Shaxper of Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, ever wrote anything.

• There is another Stratford on another river Avon demonstrably connected with the two dedicatees of the First Folio, with Mary Sidney, Countess Pembroke (their mother), and with the daughter of the Earl of Oxford whom some believe was Shakespeare.

Spoiler – A Matrix of Facts
The Wight in Me

This is a distillation of the file, Shakespeare. The title comes from Sonnet 50 composed around 1603-4.

A waite was a being, chap or person. My explanation is that Mary Fitton was pregnant and en route to Tenby in Wales to stay with her brother’s wife’s family for her confinement. Bastards born in Wales were able to inherit, not so in England. The putative father was her second cousin, Admiral Sir Richard Leveson, son-in-law of the Lord High Admiral whose wife was the Queen’s cousin. However, the biological father could have been Pembroke.
Sonnet 66 confirms the author is female – she describes her plight … And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted …. She had daff'd, her white stole of chastity (A Lover’s Complaint). This is a woman speaking. 

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The Wight in Me
Shakespeare

This lengthy document chronologically records the many strands within which the Will-o’-the-wisp, Shakespeare, has been bound; from the literary evolution of the Sidney family in the sixteenth century, to my recent remarkable discoveries. Occasionally fiction has been crafted to consolidate events and people together, serving only to make history more human.

The compilation progresses to 1623 and the publication in folio of thirty-six plays under an author given the name Mr William Shakespeare. Thereafter Shakespeareana and academic researchers have wriggled to validate a Bard who was the Sweet Swan of Avon juxtaposed to a Stratford Monument. The result is a barricade of mythology, with under-researched theories and deliberate forgeries.

It is a matrix of players, playwrights, plays, printers and publishers all trying to make their way through tough times. The First Folio proved a commercial success and spawned a valuable industry.

In essence, all revolves around the Sidney-Herbert/Pembroke families. Compare the statue of William Herbert outside the Bodleian with the near identical Shakespeare monuments in Westminster Abbey and Wilton House to see it is the same face. The joke has been on us. I believe (here I cannot quite prove) that as a young man William Herbert trod the boards and was a shareholder under the name William Shakespeare. In The Darling Buds of Maie I can prove that he and his lover, Mary Fitton, wrote The Shake-Speare Sonnets.

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Shakespeare
The Darling Buds of Maie

This book, first published in 2004, explains that the Shake-speare Sonnets were composed by two lovers, Mary Phytton (Fitton), and William Herbert who offered her marriage and strumpeted her when she became pregnant.

With the Sonnets was published a narrative poem, A Lover’s Complaint. Why was it there? History has missed that the Complaint was the prequel to the Sonnets, ending with a pregnant maid complaining that her lover has abandoned her. The Sonnets start with seventeen sonnets in which the author begs a young man, Master W H, to marry (her) and have progeny.

This real-life drama is heightened by the person of Sir William Knollys, the Queen’s nephew and Mary’s guardian at Court, falling in love with her; he is lampooned as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. It is not the only Shakespeare play that alludes to the love affair between William & Mary. Hamlet, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, A Winter’s Tale, Pericles, and Troilus and Cressida all seem to have a bearing.

Embedded in Sonnets 123, 124 and 125 are the names of the lovers. I show conclusively that William called her May (Darling Buds of May) and have found why, sensationally, he refused to marry her.
The Sonnets was a seven-year (1601-7) correspondence between the lovers; they reflect the emotions of a traumatised woman who lost her place at Court, her baby, the lover who would make her a Countess, the affection of her Queen, her status, and her reputation; truly strumpeted.

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The Darling Buds of Maie
Delusion

This was written as a speech, hopefully to be accepted by Ted. It abstracts about fifteen elements that define who or what was Shakespeare.

The knowledge contained in the First Folio is encyclopaedic, from needlework to life on board ship, from warfare to horticulture, from law to the classics. Add to this a working knowledge of six languages, European literature, the politics of the times, the characters at Court and many other attributes, vesting Genius in one individual, especially in one who never had an education, is delusional.

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