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Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Edward de Vere’s life and letters indicate that he was the true author of the works of Shakespeare. Weaving together ten years of research, this biography of the adventurous Elizabethan earl is a triumph of literary detective work. Actor William Shaksper of Stratford had little education, never left England, and apparently owned no books. How could he have written the great plays and poetry attributed to him? Journalist Mark Anderson’s biography offers tantalizing proof that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford—courtier, spendthrift, scholar, traveler, soldier, scoundrel, and writer—was the real “Shakespeare.” As Anderson reveals, de Vere lived in Venice during his twenties, often in debt to its moneylenders (Merchant of Venice). He led military campaigns against rebellious nobles in Scotland (Macbeth). An extramarital affair resulted in fighting between his supporters and rivals (Romeo and Juliet). And when de Vere was publicly disgraced, he began using the pen name “Shake-speare” and appealed to Queen Elizabeth I through her favorite form of entertainment—the theater. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - strongest general work in the shakespeare athorship debate/arguement.Shakespeare by Another Name: Mark Anderson forwards the existing argument that Edward de Vere was the actual author of the the plays and poems attributed to the name Shakepeare. I read this book cover to cover twice and carefully. I even went to so far as fact check some of the Mark Andersons research, I could find no mistakes. This book is not only great history reading if your interested in Elizabethan England, and earopean art and politics, but it makes the strongest total case yet that ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating, essential bookThis book is a singularly impressive work of scholarship, and a most important read! Sure to delight any lover of Shakespeare. Mark Anderson spent over a decade researching and compiling the information for this book, and his writing is meticulous and abundantly documented (400 pages of text followed by 180 pages of endnotes). I had already heard of and become convinced of the Oxfordian authorship four years ago, as it is not only logical but also virtually irrefutable. ... Read More Rating: - Remarkable and well-writtenI have read Ogburn's book and bought it for others many times. But this will be the book I buy in the future when trying or hoping to get someone with an interest in the authorship question to open up their minds. Mark Anderson does a remarkable job telling the story of de Vere's life. It is an incredibly readable biography and I learned lots of little details that I hadn't known before from other books and articles I have read. It is a fascinating read and I am so grateful to Anderson ... Read More Rating: - Consider ThisIt would be refreshing and (I dare say) adult for the Stratfordian and Oxfordian partisans to relax and acknowledge that so-far neither candidate entirely meets all the criteria to be crowned the "real" Shakespeare. In the meantime, Mark Anderson presents a well-written, exhaustive, and fascinating biography of Edward de Vere. Before discounting events in the life of the 17th Earl of Oxford as mere "strained coincidences" with numerous Shakespearean plot lines, characters, and sonnet themes, after reading ... Read More Rating: - IntriguingAnderson's book is only partly a biography of de Vere. Primarily it relates in detail the correspondences between the events of de Vere's life and the contents of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. Implicit in this is that to a very large extent Shakespeare's work is autobiographical. Anderson also is a firm advocate of the position that most of the plays originated much earlier than is usually believed and that the plays were much revised over lengthy periods of time by the author before arriving at the texts ... Read More 
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