Talk:Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
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TopTenz List edit
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- Manners ranked seventh in a top-ten list of "the most notable possible authors of the works of Shakespeare" determined by TopTenz.net in September 2011 (prompted by the upcoming release of Anonymous, a major motion picture on the Shakespeare authorship question). Included in the list were other lesser-known authorship candidates: Henry Neville, Mary Sidney Herbert, William Stanley, Emilia Lanier, and Fulke Greville. They also included a group theory of authorship in their ranking. Topping the list were the better-known candidates: Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, and Edward de Vere.[1]
Artaxerxes (talk) 15:51, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Shakespeare authorship edit
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- The UK-based Shakespearean Authorship Trust[2]—established in 1922 to "seek, and if possible establish, the truth concerning the authorship of Shakespeare's plays and poems"[3]—includes him in the list of potential authors.[4]
--Artaxerxes (talk) 14:49, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- ^ Andrews, Evan (2 September 2011). "Top 10 Possible Authors For The Works of Shakespeare". TopTenz.net. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ^ Shakespearean Authorship Trust
- ^ "History/Mission". The Shakespeare Authorship Trust. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ "Roger Manners: 5th Earl of Rutland". The Shakespearean Authorship Trust. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
Erroneous Image edit
The image in this article is not of Roger Manners. The portrait sitter wears a collar of the garter, and according to Elias Ashmole's History of the Order of the Garter (http://books.google.com/books?id=e29bAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false), the most authoritative book on this subject, Roger Manners was never elected to the Order. Henry, 2nd Earl (341), 1526-1563, Edward, 3rd Earl (366), 1549-1587, and Francis, 6th Earl (412), 1578-1632, the younger brother of Roger, were all elected to the order, but Roger never was. Therefore the image is erroneous and should be corrected with an authentic portrait of Roger Manners. --BenJonson (talk) 15:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC)