De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the CanonMcFarland, 24/12/2014 - 280 من الصفحات 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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... Folio eulogy, usually considered the most extravagant of its genre, has left more than a few readers scratching their heads in bewilderment. Options for biographers are stark: fill in a blank canvas (which many are more than happy to do) ...
... Folio preface.24 Was Basse knowledgeable, or just repeating what he had heard? • As a successful playwright, Shakespeare is surprisingly invisible among his contemporaries. Everybody one thinks would have written about Shakespeare did ...
... Folio of 1623; therefore neither Will Shakspere (d. 1616) nor Edward de Vere (d. 1604?) lived to see it in print. When the play finally went to press it would have been at the mercy of editors; accordingly, whatever we see in the Folio ...
... Folio. The bromidic view among critics is that Shakespeare read this letter in manuscript and was inspired to write the play.4 Leaving aside that the story is not, strictly speaking, about a shipwreck (everyone sails away happily at the ...