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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... Sidney, Elizabethan courtier poet and war hero. The two men were rivals politically, personally, and poetically. This rivalry came to a head on a London tennis court in ... Sidney was survived by his sister Mary, one of ¡. The Tempest 21.
... Mary Sidney to stay at Wilton, who added that “the man Shakespeare” was staying there as well. We know that the King's Men performed at Wilton for King James soon afterward;22 but during that same time, Mary Sidney and de Vere could ...
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Contents
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Histories | 103 |
Tragedies and Poems | 157 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 265 |