Now in its third edition, Four Essays on the
Shakespeare Authorship Question is an introduction to
the authorship issue. The first essay examines the
evidence for why William Shakspere, the man from
Stratford, cannot have been William Shakespeare, the
author of the Works. The second essay offers 48
arguments for why Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl
of Oxford, was Shakespeare. The third essay explores the
secret identity of Edward de Vere and explains why the
timeless works of the aristocratic courtier, poet and
playwright were attributed to the journeyman actor and
businessman from Stratford, not just during de Vere's
life, but for three centuries after his death. These
essays draw upon the research and insights of many
authors who have been investigating the authorship
question since 1859, including Charles Wisner Barrell,
Charlton and Dorothy Ogburn, Hank Whittemore, Mark
Twain, John Thomas Looney, Charlton Ogburn, Jr.,
Elisabeth Sears, Paul Streitz, John Hamill and others.
Four Essays on the Shakespeare Authorship Question is
both a primer on the authorship question and a
sophisticated treatise on the Prince Tudor theory. In
teasing out the evidence for de Vere's true relationship
to Queen Elizabeth, A'Dair offers a new theory on his
parentage. In postulating a romantic love relationship
between de Vere and his son, Henry Wriothesley, the
Third Earl of Southampton, A'Dair may have illuminated
the most shocking truth of all about the greatest poet
in the English language.
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