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27 Feb 2018 |
Mark Twain is the authorship debate's top poster boy. Famous, funny and universally well-regarded, possibly even the author of the semi-mythical Great American Novel. Twain did indeed collect a list… goto |
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21 Feb 2018 |
Yes. Could a mere glove-maker’s son have written the works of Shakespeare? Oxfordians will fervently deny claims of snobbery when posing this question. They will say that we cannot look on… goto |
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21 Feb 2018 |
To explain the direct references to Shakespeare, the man we know, the man who came from Stratford and wrote the famous will, there had to be someone called Shakespeare working in London as an actor… goto |
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21 Feb 2018 |
Why pick on the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere? So why has the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, conquered Bacon, Marlowe, Derby and more than 100 other candidates to become the leading… goto |
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19 Feb 2018 |
403 Not allowed. You don't have the rights for that page. I hope you're not doing anything naughty. Try starting again from here Home The Manifesto FAQ… goto |
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16 Feb 2018 |
Summary The childless Hannah vows to Yahweh of hosts that if she has a son, he will be dedicated to him. Eli, the priest of Shiloh (where the ark of the… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
This short article was written in 2013, one of our first. A response to Roger Stritmatter's idea that the marks in the Folger Library's Geneva Bible were made by the canon author, this turned out to… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
Is the work of the early Elvis Presley, making recordings for Sun Records in the mid-50's, distinguishable from the work of the same singer in his recorded concerts of the mid-70's? It's a difference… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
A famous modern poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil’s manes; and I have indignation enough to burn a D’Ambois annually to the memory of Jonson.John Dryden's poor opinion of Chapman'… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
A famous modern poet used to sacrifice every year a Statius to Virgil’s manes; and I have indignation enough to burn a D’Ambois annually to the memory of Jonson.John Dryden's poor opinion of Chapman'… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
Oxfordians make much of the fact that there are no letters written by Shakespeare as if the fact that the 70 letters of Oxford's which survive give him precedence, Yet in 70 letters, there is not a… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
The choice of an alternative candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays would seem be limited to people who were alive when they were written.Oxford wasn’t.He died in June 1604 before almost… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
The smoking gun, proving who did and who didn’t write Shakespeare, has been found in the hand of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Is that an authorship candidate who just bit the dust?… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
Sonnet 125, reproduced in its entirety below, begins 'Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,'. Naturally, Oxfordians claim that Oxford, as an aristocrat, bore the canopy and therefore this sonnet… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
John Fletcher is a black hole for Oxfordian theorists. Too close and the whole Oxfordian shebang disappears in a wail of deplorable sucking noises. It's a good job his early life isn't as well… goto | Dugdale, Folger | |||
14 Feb 2018 |
Oxford was a patron of a theatre troupe. It wasn't a very distinguished theatre troupe and mostly toured the provinces. However, any theatre sponsorship in the 16C helped to fund the development of… goto |
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sans-serif, Diana Price, gurmukhi | ||
14 Feb 2018 |
Oxford was an aristocrat - a proper, belted Earl. Not the highest rank in society, as some claim, but close. Oxfordians cite this as one of the main reasons that he should be preferred to Shakespeare… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
A bit of sleight of hand in the film Anonymous moves the publication of Venus and Adonis from 1593 to 1599. I rather enjoyed the scenes in the printing house but the redating is significant, not… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
Revving it up Reverend William Covell’s Wikipedia entry states that he “took part in the controversy about how far the newly-reformed Church of England should abandon the liturgy and hierarchy of the… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
A key feature of the Oxfordian case lies in the cryptic interpretation of Ben Jonson's phrasing of the Preface to the First Folio. Ben is a master of the sideways, slanting, cryptic insult, so this… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
For people to do things, in the real world, they have to be alive to do them. That may seem like too simple a platitude for a complex argument but Oxfordians can't be counselled out of their grief… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
“We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.” The Book of Common Prayer In the spring of 1579, Gilbert Talbot wrote his father, the Earl of Shrewsbury: “It is but vain to… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
“We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.” The Book of Common Prayer In the spring of 1579, Gilbert Talbot wrote his father, the Earl of Shrewsbury: “It is but vain to… goto | ||||
14 Feb 2018 |
While they were both alive, Ben Jonson clearly felt a sense of rivalry with his fellow playwright. As an artist, Will not only outsold him at the box office but quite clearly had the better turn of… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
Despite the inability of Oxfordians to come up with examples of things in the plays which require the elite knowledge of aristocrats, there is, nevertheless some exclusive knowledge in the plays… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
In the English theatre, 1610-1611 was the Year of the Bear.As this tale is a late romance, it begins with an earlier tragedy. In Purchas his Pilgrimes, a mariner called Jonas Poole recounts his… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
A key part of the Oxfordians theory is that the work which we know was circulated and published in his name, and is therefore indisputably his own, is compatible with the work of Shakespeare. It is… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
Robert Greene was one of the first professional writers in England. A grammar school boy, of course, (no enrolment records, of course), six years Shakespeare's senior but with many more years… goto |
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14 Feb 2018 |
Hand D, the fragment of lost play Sir Thomas More, thought to be in Shakespeare's handwriting, is in the news again. Professor Douglas Bruster, of the University of Austen, Texas, has joined… goto |
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