De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the CanonThe question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare. This text presents the controversial argument for de Vere's authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare, offering the available historical evidence and moreover the literary evidence to be found within the works. Divided into sections on the comedies and romances, the histories and the tragedies and poems, this fresh study closely analyzes each of the 39 plays and the sonnets in light of the Oxfordian authorship theory. The vagaries surrounding Shakespeare, including the lack of information about him during his lifetime, especially relating to the "lost years" of 1585-1592, are also analyzed, to further the question of Shakespeare's true identity and the theory of de Vere as the real Bard. |
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... An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon WILLIAM FARINA Foreword by Felicia Hardison Londré McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Portions of the chapter on Twelfth Night are reprinted from. De Vere.
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... London or to the Earl of Southampton or to many of the other tenets of Shakespearean biographies. Yet we cannot make assumptions based upon what is not there. What is on that page can neither prove nor disprove the Stratford man's ...
... London earlier than the latter ˇ580s. Thus, to consider the Stratford man as the author, one has to squeeze a lot of plays into scarcely two decades, with no years for apprenticeship. My focus on the dates, however, derives not from the ...
... London. This lack of notice would appear to be nearly without precedent in the history of the arts. Shakespeare is often compared to the composer Mozart, who was also a genius, but quite unlike Will Shakspere. For example, we know ...
Contents
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Histories | 103 |
Tragedies and Poems | 157 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 265 |