The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
(1928) Edition) Photocopy, soft-cover, spiral bound
Ward, Capt. Bernard M.
$50.00

   Did this premier peer of Elizabeth I’s Court "Waste his estates" — as his father-in-law alleged — on "lewd actors and writers and companies of actors"? OR did he spend and invest his resources in gilding, glazing and glorifying Queen Elizabeth’s reign as the Golden Age of Drama and Literature?

The anomalous circumstances of England’s Lord Great Chamberlain masking and camouflaging his theatrical activities, is told in the leit motif that runs through Shake-speare’s Sonnets:

• ". . . every word doth almost tell my name, . . ." Sonnet 76

• "My name be buried where my body is"....... Sonnet 72

• "Though I (once gone) to all the world must die" Sonnet 61

 

Whatever the reason for concealment, the life, death and burial of "Shake-speare" were so well accomplished that his identity remained a mystery until 1920 when a British school master’s book "Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere . . . was published. John Galsworthy called it "the best detective story I have ever read." But YOU DECIDE the authorship question for yourself. You too, will find, as an increasing number of scholars have found, since John Thomas Looney’s 1920 discoVERy, that:

DeVere’s biography, as told in extant records,
equals
Shake-speare’s autobiography, as told in the plays and sonnets.

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