De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the CanonMcFarland, 24/12/2014 - 280 páginas The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare. This text presents the controversial argument for de Vere's authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare, offering the available historical evidence and moreover the literary evidence to be found within the works. Divided into sections on the comedies and romances, the histories and the tragedies and poems, this fresh study closely analyzes each of the 39 plays and the sonnets in light of the Oxfordian authorship theory. The vagaries surrounding Shakespeare, including the lack of information about him during his lifetime, especially relating to the "lost years" of 1585-1592, are also analyzed, to further the question of Shakespeare's true identity and the theory of de Vere as the real Bard. |
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... Bard's name in print. The very title of the poem, referring to the Roman playwright Terence, would have suggested to many readers that “Shake-speare”13 the writer had a front man, since Terence was himself accused of being a front man ...
... Bard's works. The phenomenon is discussed by period writers such as Montaigne30 and by the anonymous author of The Arte of English Poesie. Social stigma was especially applicable to popular drama, considered to be a highly disreputable ...
... Bard's history plays may have been the most effective political propaganda ever created, aimed at unifying an English society threatening to split apart over religious and social issues, which it would in fact soon do so. For ...
... Bard's true identity may be a very small question in today's troubled world; and yet it goes right to the very heart of western culture. Some argue that all literary biography is irrelevant. After all, many great writers were not great ...
... Bard's reputation (as well as his own) will be able to survive an occasional outburst of cultural pride and prejudice. After all, part of the reason Shakespeare is the greatest poet and English the greatest language is that both are all ...
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