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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... published in 1625 , two years after the First Folio . The bromidic view among critics is that Shakespeare read this letter in manuscript and was inspired to write the play . Leav- ing aside that the story is not , strictly speaking ...
... published in 1565. This collection had also been used by Shakespeare for Othello , and no English translation existed at that time , although there was a French rendition from the original Italian . " While an English variation on the ...
... published anonymously in 1597 , followed by a second quarto under the name " William Shake - speare " in 1598.4 A total of six quarto editions appeared before the First Folio of 1623 , all somewhat different , thus creating major ...