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So, the only four writers of the Elizabethan era were Ben Jonson, Kit Marlowe, Francis Beaumont, and (mostly) Edward De Vere?

I only dive into this world from time to time. Are we now saying that both Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene were also De Vere? !!

Very man centric. Emilia Bassano Lanier?

The idea that Kit Marlowe was a Catholic spy who faked his own death in order to go underground, and that he thereafter penned some of the plays attributed to "William Shakespeare," is too romantic not to be true.

When in High School as a teenager in the 1950s, years before I heard of the questions surrounding the doubts of the authorship of the plays, I had decided the plays must have been written by someone close to the centre of the Elizabethan Court and the centre of power and politics. He also must have travelled at least to Venice. No one without this background could have written these plays, certainly not a regular citizen from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Nevertheless for school outings, we were piled onto buses for day trips to Stratford to be indoctrinated into the Shakespeare myth. I was gratified as an adult to realize many others also felt the same way and De Vere stands out as the most likely candidate to have authored the plays.

The lived experiences of both Edward de Vere and Thomas North make them compelling candidates for Shakespeare authorship. But have you read de Vere's writing? Are we to believe that De Vere wrote pedestrian poetry under his own name, but used a pseudonym for his great works? By contrast, large segments of North's writing form the foundation of the published plays of Shakespeare.

Bravo! And thank you.

I’m deep in my research about this but this is the best, most concise argument I’ve heard yet. I’d love to see a video on why so many scholars continue to promote Shaksper the man as the author.

The problem with this approach is that Shakespeare undoubtedly plagiarised every play he wrote. He was a poet. He took the form of Marlowe’s blank verse and added rhyming verse. He took whole swathes of North’s Plutarch and turned it into poetry. The man from Stratford was a poet. You don’t need an education for that. Take stuff from the learned wits of Cambridge and turn it into masterpieces. By having a good ear. By imagining how each character would act in a situation. He was an actor after all. These Cambridge men weren’t. Yes - the man from Stratford with little Latin and less Greek actually polished existing plays and writings into the greatest works of his or any age.

Nope. Bacon.

Some 100 videos arguments on Marlowe, the only true Shakespeare m.youtube.com/@bastianconrad2550/videos

It makes sense that his pen name was literally referring to the pen which he wrote with. The shaking spear perhaps likened to the dancing quill as he wrote. Additionally it fits in with Stritmatters discoveries with the Oxford Bible. DeVere frequently highlighted passages that referenced words as weapons, IE "the pen is mightier than the sword". Or the "spear" is mightier than the sword. It's baffling to think the clues were so up front this whole time...

Alright, after watching this, I'm convinced. The Hamlet related evidence is particularly compelling.

Very interesting. I am persuaded that Edward de Vere was the author and I'm glad to know it. Thank you.

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Great work. The mountain keeps growing .

Why would it be so impossible to James that Oxford not be revealed as Shakespeare?

Why would Oxford vote Southampton guilty?

What’s the name of the Rubinstein book please ?

The 'horse-loving' Dauphin is an obvious spoof of Sir Philip Sidney -- the name 'Philip' coming from the Greek, meaning 'lover-of-horses'. Oxford also spoofed him as Sir Andrew Aguecheek : Sidney was born on the feast day of St. Andrew, and the Sidneys were popularly known to suffer pox-marks on their faces. As a would-be suitor for the hand of Anne Cecil, Sidney was also spoofed in MERRY WIVES as Fenton's rival for the hand of Anne. All these portrayals, in my mind, had to have predated Sidney's death at Zutphen, after which it would have been gauche to kick a man who had been placed on a pedestal as a martyr for the English cause. Those plays were first written -- and no doubt performed at Court for the amusement of the Queen and her courtiers -- before Sidney became a propaganda martyr to offset the bad press of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Thus, the distinction between a straight-up VILLAIN and someone Oxford thought worthy of a lampooning portrayal, is to be drawn here. Those tennis balls the Dauphin sends to Henry V clearly recall the tennis court quarrel that the hot-tempered Sidney wanted to escalate into a full-blown duel. Waxing rhapsodic about his HORSE made him appear like a 'douche-bag' (pardon the modern derogatory term) to the Queen's courtiers, I should think. Was Sidney able to take a joke? to suffer being spoofed as a dandy in front of his peers?

In 2003, after presenting his Oxford biography at the Globe, for the DVS, I asked Alan Nelson 'Why did you pick the title, Monstrous Adversary, why so much praise?'' He replied: 'because Charles Arundel...'I said: 'I know, but why did you pick the title?' Nelson looked at me and kept silent.

...from the DVS to the SOF..!

Yeah! One of the best Blue Boars ever! Fascinating from beginning to end! I approve of the idea of doing the lampooned next, Plenty of those...not least Sir Philip Sidney.

Would you guys please do an episode about how the sonnets came to light i.e. were found ?

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According to JT Looney , Southampton paid Shaksper one thousand pound in 1609 to be the front man for the printing of the sonnets.

What is confusing is that there are also patterns of letters in the First Folio that seem to imply the authors were Bacon and Henry Neville, ..are these works created by several authors? Are there any photos of the crypt under the Shakespeare monument? It would be nice if Edward de Vere is there, but nowadays whenever visiting the statue I keep imagining a large pile of bodies under it.

Why would an aristocrat writing about kings desire to have his plays presented to commoners? Leaving aside Shakespeare as an open question, has there been even one documented case of an aristocrat of that time who wrote for many years under a pseudonym?

I wish there was a Nobel Prize for literary sleuthing. Mr. Prechter would have deserved it many times over. I have read most of Oxford's Voices, and am incredulous and in despair that there isn't upheaval in every English Department in the world! And what about the History Departments?

Hello Bob and Heidi! I haven't seen the video yet, but just wanted to contact the SOF regarding a recent article in The Daily Mail (UK) about a 1595 painting thought to "possibly" be of Shakespeare. All standard fare, except that this fine painting was bought from an estate sale in the 1960s from the Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire! It might be wishful thinking on my part, but I see something of a resemblance to our friend de Vere, otherwise I can't see much reason in particular to link the painting to the Stratford chap/engraving, apart from the ruff, which in itself wasn't terribly unusual for the time. I can't find the article online, so if you haven't seen this, I'm happy to send you a photograph of the article.

*Anyone want to brainstorm a little today (?)* I recently learned about . . . "two nineteenth century British archaeologists, B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, who decided they wanted to find manuscripts. Well, how does one do that (?) They had a bright idea. Why not go to a site where a city was known once to have been, and try to find the garbage dump (?)" They succeeded spectacularly. "They found so many thousands of these things that their discoveries are still being published to this day. It’s the most enormous collection of writings ever found." So okay . . . what is the equivalent "bright idea" for finding _Shakespeare manuscripts_ (?)

I never had any bias...one way or another...until I read Charlton Ogburn's great book. As James Warren has said, our advantage over Stratfordians is that we have all, most probably, been somewhere else before we settled on Oxford. Partisans of The Stratford Man seem stuck in a mental rut.

Many thanks for your time and effort.

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Wow, this is quite a direct look at sexual wild side of those times. When you look at the rock star scene in the 70s, where glam rock was an element, there was a lot of gay and bisexual stuff and general promiscuity going on that was accepted as part of the fashionable jet set scene.

The elefant in the room that no one want to see is John Florio. The only one who could resolve the enigma. This umanista fits perfectly as the autor of the first folio.

The first rule of writing is to write about things you know. All the bard's works feature the nobility, none about growing up in the country. Further, the dedication to the First Folio refers to the author as knowing "little Latin and less Greek". It is obvious the author has traveled widely, read extensively and mastered multiple languages.

Thanks! I’d be interested in a similar list that deconstruct the Stratford man as author. Beside Diana Price’s unorthodox biography, any suggestions?

was Oxford a recusant Catholic?

it was a police state and Catholics couldn't leave paper trails.lest they be dragged to the tower. If you don't know Catholic theology your only speculating

I’m getting the sense here that there is a section of Oxfordians uncomfortable with the fact that De Vere might have been gay. Well this is 2024 now. I’m not seeing how that matters. Surely as Oxfordians we should want to know the full picture.

all her points she drops when she tells the audience what arguments to drop. She is wrong about the engraving btw

What a dynamic duo Bonner and Dorothea have become on the topic of Elizabeth Trentham! Kudos to all concerned in producing this episode, a real cracker!

Also Mozart did not write his music. He is the music equivalent of Shakespeare

I could listen to this all day! Thank you everyone! ❤ riveting!

Regarding the case for Bacon, the story of Delia Bacon of Connecticut in the early C19th should be mentioned, with her odyssey to Stratford-upon-Avon and ensuing madness, as well as Donnelly and, later, Beaumont.

Excellent discusion.

Gosh y'all are brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

Superb presentation! It always bugged me how we know almost nothing about the man whose face we see every time the name "Shakespeare" is mentioned. The case for Edward de Vere is stronger than ever now thanks to all the evidence.

Wow wow wow. Another piece of the puzzle that someone close to the English court (Edward Devere) wrote Love's Labours Lost! The guy from Stratford could not possible know all of these details. The secret negotiations for the marriage of Mary Hastings to Ivan began in 1582. If you are an Oxfordian you should listen to Rima's talk despite her somewhat difficult-to-understand accent.