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The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford's life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare's works to him. This book seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, this book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly ... More
Keywords: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, William Shakespeare, Elizabethan society, Elizabethan manners, scandal, poetic works
Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853236788 |
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846313592 |
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