Edward P. Vining (died 1920) was an American writer and railroad executive.[1] He was the author of An Inglorious Columbus (1885), in which he argued that Hui Shen was originally from Afghanistan, traveled to China and Mexico, and created Mexican culture and religion.[2][3] He also wrote The Mystery of Hamlet. An Attempt to Solve an Old Problem (1881), in which he argued that Shakespeare's Hamlet was actually a woman.[4] His work on Hamlet was translated into German and published in Leipzig in 1883.[1]
When The Mystery of Hamlet was first published, Vining was working as a general freight traffic manager at the Union Pacific Railroad.[1] His other works included a translation of The Necessity for a Classification for Freight.[1]
Although Vining did not graduate from college, he received an honorary A.M. from Yale in 1886, and an LL.D. from William Jewell College in 1908.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Raven, Anton A. (1937). "There Are More Things, Horatio". The Shakespeare Association Bulletin. 12 (4): 236–245. JSTOR 23675652.
- ^ Regal, Brian (2022). "The Asia and Africa Theories". The Battle Over America's Origin Story. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 167–195. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99538-6_8. ISBN 9783030995386.
- ^ "Review: An Inglorious Columbus". The American Naturalist. 19 (10). October 1885. JSTOR 2450279.
- ^ Seidl, Monica (2002). "Room for Asta: Gender Roles and Melodrama in Asta Nielsen's Filmic Version of "Hamlet" (1920)". Literature/Film Quarterly. 30 (3): 20–216. JSTOR 45116758.