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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... death. I mention this only because it often serves as the big gun they haul out to clinch the argument in favor of the man from Stratford. Their point is that the phrase “the still-vexed Bermoothes” relates to a storm and shipwreck o ...
... death and then wrote Shakespeare's works in exile. Improbable to be sure, yet no one has ever questioned that Marlowe was a brilliant writer, commoner or not. To give a somewhat more modern example, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S ...
... death of Queen Elizabeth and the accession of King James in 1603, Will Shakspere presumably prospered. James took control over the Lord Chamberlain's Men, rechristening them the King's Men, and sponsored what appears to have been the ...
... death, and only then in a very ambiguous and equivocal manner.23 That a man acknowledged during his lifetime (and 18 years before his death) as the greatest English playwright should not be widely associated with the provincial town ...
... death of the true author. Less frequently discussed, perhaps because of the embarrassing implications to our national heritage, is the troubled relationship between Shakespeare and our Puritan forefathers. In short, English Puritans ...
Contents
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Histories | 103 |
Tragedies and Poems | 157 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 265 |