De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the CanonMcFarland, 2014. dec. 24. - 280 oldal The 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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... biography of the author are not so welcome. Biography is supposed to rest on documented facts, as many as can be mustered from baptismal records, contracts, account books, letters, diaries, wills, tombstones. Only after establishing ...
... biography of William Shakespeare is widely viewed as the greatest “poor boy makes good” story ever told; consequently, doubters and skeptics stand accused of snobbery or worse. It is wrongly assumed that anyone who questions the ...
... biography of Will Shakspere, another alleged author suspected of having written nothing. Today Will Shakspere's claim to authorship is questioned more than ever, especially given that another compelling Elizabethan personality has come ...
... biography; a bigger part is glad not to, since his enthusiasm for Shakespeare has grown to proportions never anticipated. Most biographies, issued at frequent and regular intervals, add little or nothing to our understanding of ...
... biography appears, if nothing else, to make him relatively unique among the great writers. The following are just a few examples: • Among Will Shakspere's parents, wife, and three children, posterity has handed down a grand total of one ...
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Histories | 103 |
Tragedies and Poems | 157 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 265 |