Directors Mariana Sagasti and Gustavo Garzón return to the English urban legend about the “authentic identity” of the author of “Hamlet”, a 19th century.
No one doubts that Lope de Vegathe fenix of the mills, Miguel de Cervantesand among us José Hernández, Lugones, Borges, And many others, they wrote everything they wrote, and none went to university (well, Lope de Vega He studied four years, until he was thrown out, because all he studied was the way to the bedroom of married ladies and their daughters).
But in the nineteenth century, in England, they began to doubt nothing less than Shakespeare. How could I have written such beautiful and deep things that provincial without studies? And so some follow. Did you really write all the works attributed to him and for which he is worldwide weighted? Won’t you have had any partner, or, worse, someone who used his name? Would perhaps the testaferro of a secret society, Rosicruces or Masons? Because Shakespeare He was an actor and good merchant, of this there is evidence, but there is not a single manuscript of his that even corroborates the authorship of a sonnet.
From these unknowns the documentary is deals with “Looking for Shakespeare”where a few serious and enlightened people explain their suspicions, and others equally serious and enlightened think otherwise and also explain it. At the same time, the film takes the opportunity to investigate what exactly a Shakesperean actor is. Can anyone be?
Mariana Sagastitheatrical director of fine knowledge, visit Stratford-Upon-Avon, the current Theater The Globe (the original caught fire and was in another place) and other venerable sites, and also visits the Canterbury Tower, redoubt of the followers of Baconand other lares, always to the meeting of historians, directors of respectable organisms and actors not so respectful, as a driver of the declaration of reasonable doubt that since 2007, starting from fragmented phrases of some celebrities, has been gathering signatures to subtract merits from the bard.
While, Gustavo Garzónwhich is not considered from the stick although it ends up reciting properly, makes its good inquiries at home. “The Argentines appropriate Shakespeare and do what we want with him”deduces in front of several free versions, rather free, from the Buenos Aires billboard. In the other tip Erika Whyman, director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, confesses her envy for the artists of other languages, which therefore can work the classic texts with more ease than the English.
Agile, entertaining, informative and a little disturbing, “Looking for Shakespeare” carries the signatures of Waiter and Sagasti. Valuable support, Victor CruzCo -gumanist, and the producer Daniel Werner. Incidentally, some things that are said here wake up in the chronicler a couple of memories: the Sportivo Shakespeare Clubgroup of entrerriano fans who came to act as a central number of a Creole circus, and a story of Richmal Crompton where American tourists believe they have reached the people of the writer and hire a child not innocent as a guide (hopefully those books will be reissued Guillermo the naughtypleasant examples of English humor and children’s political incorrectness).
“Looking for Shakespeare” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Gustavo Garzón and Mariana Sagasti. Documentary.
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