TRAGICALLY COMEDIC in its BACKWARD FANTASY-LOGIC: Review of STEFAN ZWEIGs [1881-1942] biography of MQS upon which the recent 2103 Imbach Swiss film was based and also Donizettis opera. Zweig was an Austrian born to parents of the Jewish race. He escaped Europe in WWII to Brazil. He and his wife died, performing a double suicide. The key issue in most MQS biographies is how they handle the Darnley murder and the Babington entrapment. The forged CASKET LETTERS are proof to Zweig for the Darnley murder. His reasoning is: 1) SUDDEN PASSION AFTER 9 YEARS: MQS, after knowing Bothwell for 9 years, suddenly developed a wild mad passion for him in October 1566 after giving birth to her son in June 1566. [MQS first met Bothwell in the French court in 1558. There is no opinion or evidence that MQS showed an interest in Bothwell upon meeting him in 1558. Bothwell was the Admiral of the ships returning her to Scotland in 1561. MQS sentenced Bothwell to prison in 1562 for threatening to abduct and rape her. MQS pardoned Bothwell in 1565 in order for him to aide in combating the Moray Chaseabout rebellion in 1565. No one discounts that MQS was in love with Darnley in 1565-66.] Zweig: MQS passion for Bothwell was one of the most notable in history...frantic intensity... shot skyward like a sheet of flame into ecstasy... the essence of uncontrollable impulses... violent dischargres of energy.. p. 155 Her unfortunate passion... seized an unsuspecting woman as its prey p. 162 The cause of this wild love per Zweig was rape. Previous to this rape per Zweig: It never occurred to her to think of him as a suitor. p.162 Zweig then claims that MQS was a coquet tempting Bothwell and proof of this is Chastelards assassination attempts and the Rizzio murder. p.163 Bothwell invaded her life like a thunderclap. .163 The PROOF of this passion says Zweig, were the forged Casket Letters. 2) MORTON had a better reputation than MQS per Zweig: ZWEIG believed that Morton found the casket June 20 1567, as he testified at the York conference and not on July 12, 1567 as stated in the British State Papers (BSP). BSP stated there were jewels in the casket not letters. Zweig does not believe MQS when she stated that she did not write the letters; Zweigs reason for disbelief is because the MQS commissioners left the York conference. The commissioners left the York conference when Queen Elizabeth refused to allow MQS to see or examine the forged letters/ sonnets. 3) NO ONE ELSE COULD WRITE FRENCH per Zweig: Zweig believed that only MQS could have written the casket sonnets because there was no one else in Scotland or England that could have written them in the short 15 months that the Scots rebels took to put them together. He did not think any of the Scots rebels had the talent to write the sonnets/letters: How ridiculous to ascribe such a talent to the Mortons, Argylls, the Hamiltons, or the Gordons Moray, Leithington and Buchanan, who by turns and haphazard, have been mentioned as the forger... were neither Shakespeares or Balzacs. p.161-62 [Buchanan was a professor in a French Unitversity. The Hamiltons were also French Dukes living in France. Maitland/Leithington as well as many of the Scots Lords, was educated in France.] However Zweig admits with regards to the casket documents: Certain DETAILS were DOCTORED with It is obvious a FEW INTERPOLATIONS were made p.161 [OK so there was some forgery going on, that does not mean the rest of the documents were forged - per Zweig] They were rough hewn and manifest a wild and confused flow of thought and evidently written in haste and disorder. p.161 4) ONLY MQS WROTE POETRY: MQS wrote poetry therefore per Zweig, only she could have produced the sonnets. p.162 Is anyone convinced by Zweig, thus far? [Besides film directors and operatic composers?]
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:57:59 +0000
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