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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... sonnets we love. It is not enough to use the circular reasoning employed by the judge in a Houston trial on the authorship question: Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare because Shakespeare's name is on the published work. What we seek is not ...
... sonnets as the compelling factor. The deeply personal sonnets a›ord us glimpses of the author's own emotional life unmediated by dramatic characterization. We find the same themes emerging repeatedly—the pain of being misrepresented 2 ...
... Sonnets 37,66, and ¡89) was caused by a similar ambush in the street. William Farina's book wonderfully pulls together hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such insights, no one of which can be said to prove the case for de Vere as ...
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Comedies and Romances | 17 |
Histories | 103 |
Tragedies and Poems | 157 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 241 |
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