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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2128 words (8.51 pages) in the essay titled authorship theory For a host of persuasive but commonly disregarded reasons, the Earl ofOxford has quietly become by far the most compelling man to be found behind the mask of Shake-speare. As Orson Welles put it in 1954, I think Oxford wrote Shakespeare. If you don t agree, there are some awful funny coincidences incidences to explain away. Some of these coincidences are obscure, others are hard to overlook. A 1578 Latin encomium to Oxford, for example, contains some highly suggestive praise: Pallas lies concealed in thy right hand, it says. Thine eyes flash fire; Thy countenance shakes spears. Elizabethans knew that Pallas Athena was known by the sobriquet the spear-shaker. The hyphen in Shake-speare s name also was a tip-off: other Elizabethan pseudonyms include Cutbert Curry-knave, Simon Smell-knave, and Adam Fouleweather (student in asse-tronomy). (FN*). The case for Oxford s authorship hardly rests on hidden clues and allusions, however. One of the most important new pieces of Oxfordian evidence centers around a 1570 English Bible, in the Geneva translation, once owned and annotated by the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. In an eight-year study of the de Vere Bible, a University of Massachusetts doctoral student named Roger Stritmatter has found that the 430-year-old book is essentially, as he puts it, Shake-speare s Bible with the Earl of Oxford s coat of arms on the cover. Stritmatter discovered that more than a quarter of the 1,066 annotations a... |
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Keywords: earl of oxford, edward de vere, pallas athena, english bible, shake speare, biblical allusions, sobriquet, asse, orson welles, countenance, knave, authorship, coincidences, behind the mask, pseudonyms, hyphen, encomium, thine eyes, flash fire, wordings