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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford And
thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved… Currently the most popular alternate candidate Wrote
plays (all lost) and poetry
(some of it decent, and in Shakespearean meter) Died nearly a decade before Shakespeare stopped writing plays. The
first serious Oxfordian was J.
Thomas Looney (pronounced "Loney"), who published
"Shakespeare" Identified in 1920. Other Oxfordians include Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Derek Jacobi, and David McCullough |
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Died: 24 June 1604 (age 54) |
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Links The Case for Oxford: A
Brief Summary of Evidence Shakespeare
and Oxford: 25 Curious Connections Edward
de Vere Oxfordian
Theory "The
Man Who Wrote Shakespeare" Oxford:
Son of Queen Elizabeth I A Stratfordian Rebuttal: Critically
Examining Oxfordian Claims Major Oxfordian Web Sites: The
Shakespeare Oxford Society The
Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook Oxford's Life: Edward
de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
"Shakespeare"
by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, The Man
Who Was Shakespeare, by Mark Anderson (Gotham, 2005) Monstrous
Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, by
Alan H. Nelson (Liverpool University Press, 2003) |