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Article: What's in a name? Did a nobleman named Edward de Vere really write the works attributed to William Shakespeare? Our reviewer thinks not.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- August 21, 2005
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Byline: Herman Gollob
Special to the Star Tribune
The shocking revelation in Mark Anderson's " `Shakespeare' By Another Name: The Man Who Was Shakespeare" is not its claim that the Shakespeare canon actually is the work of a nasty little nobleman named Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, but rather the endorsement of this dubious premise in a foreword by one of the most brilliant actors of our age, Sir Derek Jacobi. However, Sir Derek has in the past opined that Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy actually is a speech that should be addressed to Ophelia, a concept so notably bereft of common theatrical sense as to suggest that his celebration of ...
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Article: Edward de Vere Oxford, 17th earl of
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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...Edward de Vere Oxford, 17th earl of 1550-1604, English poet, b. Castle Heddingham ... was one of the court circle of writers. On the theory that he wrote Shakespeare's plays, see studies by E. T. Clark (1937) and L. P. Bé ...
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