Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Phonies, or a fake people are those with multiple identities. These people act different in public and private, or in different groups of people. Phonies have been criticized in literature for hundreds of years, but one of the most notable times, and possible the first time it was criticized was in Shakespeare's Othello. Shakespeare uses characters in Othello, such as Iago, Othello and Desdemona, to show how the worst of people usually have an extreme difference in their identities, while the…

he lied about his identity. The question at hand is to explore the theory of Shakespeare being the Earl of Oxford. During this essay, I am going to examine the plays we have recently read and point out characters and lines that connect with the theory of Shakespeare being the Earl of Oxford. Starting with the basics, let’s compare the ages and life histories of “Shakespeare” and the Earl of Oxford. When looking up Shakespeare I discovered that he has three kids, which I did not know, but all…

It was written by Keir Cutler on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship website. This website is reliable because it is dedicated to Shakespeare and researching the topic of true authorship. First, Cutler says that there is no evidence to prove that William Shakespeare was a writer, only an actor. All there…

Comparing Poetry by William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney’s sonnets (specifically, 130 for Shakespeare and 7 for Sidney) do similar things like comparing women to things in nature, but they come up with different conclusions in the end. For example, one could say that Shakespeare compares the woman in his poem to nature in order to prove that it isn’t necessary to be similar nature to make her beautiful and rare. Then, Sidney compares his lady, Stella, to…

mankind? It is highly unlikely. There must have been someone else. Scholars are now speculating as to whether Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the true author of all of Shakespeare’s publications, Edward De Vere was born in the Hedingham Castle. One of his tutors at the time was Laurence Nowell, who owned a copy of Beowulf. In 1558, Edward De Vere attended Cambridge and Oxford University in 1566. Another tutor of his was Queen Elizabeth’s…

debate, scholars have put forward many contenders as the “real author” of the plays, Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe. The most recent candidate for the “real author” title is Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Oxfordian scholars, as they are called, believe that de Vere had the education, political connections and literary skill to write the plays commonly attributed to the…

there have been people saying that William Shakespeare, from Stratford- upon- Avon, is not the one who wrote all those plays and poems. Instead Oxfordian’s believe that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the one who wrote some of most known plays and poems in English literature. There is enough evidence to support that Edward de Vere is the real Shakespeare. William Shakespeare,from Stratford-upon-Avon, was born in April of 1564. He was not the richest kid in town but he was able to go to…

The controversy has since spawned a vast body of literature, and more than 80 authorship candidates have been proposed, the most popular being Sir Francis Bacon, Edward de vere, Christopher Marlowe, and William Stanley. First, let's have a look on Sir Francis Bacon's life. He was the leading candidate of the 19th century and one of the great intellectual figures of Jacobean England, a lawyer, philosopher, essayist…

The Anglo Normans The third Aubrey and Robert de Vere were both part of the group of 25 Barons who drew up the Magna Carta, often collectively referred to as the ‘Anglo Normans’. With the exception of William Marshall, de Lacy and Lord Arbemarle, the 25 Barons who were to have authority over the country under the Magna Carta all had their main family seat or castle in East Anglia. This was not (as Walter Scott would erroneously write) an alliance of Anglo Saxons and Normans. Indeed the…

For years, critics have questioned whether Shakespeare wrote his plays, along with his other works. Although those who question his authorship are a minority, it is a serious debate. Many arguments date back hundreds of years ago, but are still relevant and believed by a minority today. Many people, including famous actors, academics, and writers, have suggested that the plays and other works credited to William Shakespeare were either not the work of a single man or, were not written by…