De Vere
Author : Robert Plumer Ward
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 1827
Category : English fiction
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Author : Robert Plumer Ward
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 1827
Category : English fiction
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Author : Alan H. Nelson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780853236788
The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford’s life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare’s works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford in over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson’s book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.
Author : Margo Anderson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611871786
The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).
Author : James Ross
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843836149
Earl of Oxford for 50 years, and subject of six kings of England during the political strife of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere's career included more changes of fortune than almost any other. This is a full-length study of de Vere's life and career. Through this lens it also tackles a number of broader themes.
Author : John Milnes Baker
Publisher : Urlink Print & Media, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684866281
The Shakespeare Authorship Question has been the subject of heated debate for generations. This concise introduction to the controversy challenges the conventional narrative that Will Shakspere of Stratfordupon- Avon was the author of the works of William Shakespeare. Anyone with natural curiosity will find the case for Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, as the real William Shakespeare a fascinating subject for further investigation. The Clarion Review stated: The book's objective is not to examine every aspect of the de Vere theory in detail, but to condense that material and present its essentials. In service of accomplishing that goal, it includes a thorough list of references and additional reading suggestions for those interested in learning more. "To ask Shakespeare scholars to research the authorship is like asking the College of Cardinals to honestly research the Resurrection." --- Robin Fox, PhD, professor of social theory, Rutgers University
Author : William Farina
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483431
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.
Author : James Ross
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1837651973
The first full-length study of one of the most controversial figures of later fourteenth century England.
Author : Robert Plumer Ward
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1827
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Author : J. Thomas Looney
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Michael Langford
Publisher : Parapress Limited
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781898594833