Shakespeare and the Concealed Poet
1st Edition
Published on 28. June 2020
Book
290 pages
978-3-933077-55-4 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Detobel has definitely achieved mastery in the art of making documents speak. Reading is not as easy a skill as it seems: Detobel indeed teaches us to read anew. Jan Scheffer
Robert Detobel was born in the small village Beert in Flanders (Belgium) on 12 August, 1939. He became an orphan at six. In 1959 he finished school and registered at the Uni-versity of Louvain in order to study Political Science. In 1964 he moved to Möncheng-ladbach, occupying himself with poets like Rilke, Trakl, Hölderlin and Eichendorff. From 1965 onwards he worked at a German-French translation agency; in 1971 he be-gan studies in Economics at the University of Cologne and graduated in 1976. In 1977 he moved to Frankfurt/Main, working as a freelance translator, including the transla-tion of books. Studying Sigmund Freud in 1981 he came across a footnote in the Outline of Psychoanalysis that did not fail to catch his curiosity and encouraged him to study Hamlet in depth. In this way he found the subject that would largely occupy him throughout his life since: Who wrote Shakespeare?
In 1995 he established contact with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz; together they published the Neues Shake-speare Journal, which appeared regularly after the first volume in 1997. Detobel's contributions form part of several volumes. Subsequently he came into close contact with US-American Shakespeare scholars like Peter Moore, Christo-pher Paul and Robert Brazil and took part in continuing discussions with Ron Hess and Hank Whittemore among others, who held him in great esteem. He published in the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, The De Vere Society Newsletter, The Oxfordian and Brief Chronicles. In 2001 Robert was honoured by Concordia University in Portland, Oregon
with the Vero Nihil Verius Award and was invited there for the presentation. He also published books in the German language (How Shaksper became Shakespeare (2005); Will, Wish and Reality (2010, a fundamental critique of James Shapiro). He was a speaker at two Dutch Authorship conferences in 2005 and 2006, it was there that he read several texts with Noemi Magri.
The Concealed Poet is an extension of his main contributions for the Neues Shake-speare Journal, translated in coordination with K. C. Ligon and published in manuscript form in 2010.
Robert Detobel was born in the small village Beert in Flanders (Belgium) on 12 August, 1939. He became an orphan at six. In 1959 he finished school and registered at the Uni-versity of Louvain in order to study Political Science. In 1964 he moved to Möncheng-ladbach, occupying himself with poets like Rilke, Trakl, Hölderlin and Eichendorff. From 1965 onwards he worked at a German-French translation agency; in 1971 he be-gan studies in Economics at the University of Cologne and graduated in 1976. In 1977 he moved to Frankfurt/Main, working as a freelance translator, including the transla-tion of books. Studying Sigmund Freud in 1981 he came across a footnote in the Outline of Psychoanalysis that did not fail to catch his curiosity and encouraged him to study Hamlet in depth. In this way he found the subject that would largely occupy him throughout his life since: Who wrote Shakespeare?
In 1995 he established contact with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz; together they published the Neues Shake-speare Journal, which appeared regularly after the first volume in 1997. Detobel's contributions form part of several volumes. Subsequently he came into close contact with US-American Shakespeare scholars like Peter Moore, Christo-pher Paul and Robert Brazil and took part in continuing discussions with Ron Hess and Hank Whittemore among others, who held him in great esteem. He published in the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, The De Vere Society Newsletter, The Oxfordian and Brief Chronicles. In 2001 Robert was honoured by Concordia University in Portland, Oregon
with the Vero Nihil Verius Award and was invited there for the presentation. He also published books in the German language (How Shaksper became Shakespeare (2005); Will, Wish and Reality (2010, a fundamental critique of James Shapiro). He was a speaker at two Dutch Authorship conferences in 2005 and 2006, it was there that he read several texts with Noemi Magri.
The Concealed Poet is an extension of his main contributions for the Neues Shake-speare Journal, translated in coordination with K. C. Ligon and published in manuscript form in 2010.