Shakespeare's Revolution Malim Richard
2020 saw the centenary of Thomas Looney's book Shakespeare Identified in which he revealed that the author of 'Shakespeare' is Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), and not William…
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2020 saw the centenary of Thomas Looney's book Shakespeare Identified in which he revealed that the author of 'Shakespeare' is Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), and not William Shakespeare, from Stratford upon Avon (1564-1616).Notwithstanding the irrefutable nature of his case, and the support of Galsworthy and Freud, the English academic establishment, buoyed up by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, refuses to investigate the case, although most modern critics usually include a denunciation (or worse) in their writings. Mark Twain wrote in 1909 that Shakespeare biographies consist of 'nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris.'A hundred years later the position is unchanged, save that academia now cloaks the 'William Shakespeare' contention in a great fog of new 'science' of alleged collaboration and 'stylometrics'. They do this to buoy up the