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The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. While historians and literary scholars overwhelmingly reject alternative authorship candidates, including Oxford, [1] [2] public interest in the Oxfordian theory continues. [3] Since the 1920s, the ...
Jan 28, 2019 · Despite this compelling circumstantial evidence, there is no concrete proof that Edward de Vere was the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. Indeed, it is conventionally accepted that 14 of Shakespeare’s plays were written after 1604 – the year of De Vere’s death.
A Concise Overview of the Life of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604): Elizabethan Courtier, Poet, Playwright, and Patron of Literature, Arts, and Theatre. Edward de Vere in 1575 (age 25): the “Welbeck” portrait. When Elizabeth Tudor became Queen of England in 1558, the Earldom of Oxford was one of the oldest lines of ...
A biography of Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who some claim was the true author of Shakespeare's works showing links to plots and insider knowledge.
Jun 27, 2018 · Edward de Vere. British courtier Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), was an accomplished sixteenth–century English poet and literary patron as well as an official and member of the court of Elizabeth I.
Edward de Vere (1550-1604), 17th Earl of Oxford, was heir to the oldest1 continuously inherited earldom in England.2 The ancestral seat of the de Veres was Castle Hedingham in Essex, built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, whose magnificent Norman keep still survives. The Earls of Oxford also held manors throughout East Anglia, most
Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford, orig. Edward de Vere, (born April 12, 1550, Castle Hedingham, Essex, Eng.—died June 24, 1604, Newington, Middlesex), English lyric poet. A brilliantly gifted linguist and one of the most dashing figures of his time, Oxford was also reckless, hot-tempered, and disastrously spendthrift.
