Emanuel Garcia

Smashwords book reviews by Emanuel Garcia

  • The Rest is Silence on May 20, 2012

    In his imaginative recreation of Elizabethan times through the de Vere household Hildbrandt manages to convey with sensitivity, power and emotion, something essential not only about the brooding genius that gave birth to the Shakespearean oeuvre, but to the complex familial and political relationships that plagued him. It is a fascinating and sensitive rendering with an emotion missing from anything else I have read about de Vere, an emotion that for me founds its devastating culmination in a scene postulating the fate of the mss of the man behind the mask of Shakespeare. I wish every high school student in the English-speaking world would have a copy of this book as they struggle to comprehend a Shakespeare whose life is presented to them as fact, when there is nothing but fiction in the Stratfordian account -- certainly nothing that would persuade a young and enthusiastic mind were it not for the sheer coercion of the established curriculum to accept its postulates. I give it my highest recommendation.