Article: Edward de Vere, 1550-1604: The Crisis and Consequences of Wardship.(Book review)

Daphne Pearson. Edward de Vere (1550-1604): The Crisis and Consequences of Wardship.

Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xii + 264 pp. index. append, illus. tbls. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5088-X.

Today, the subject of this book, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, is probably best known as one of the candidates advanced by so-called anti-Stratfordians as the real author of the works of William Shakespeare. To his contemporaries, however, he was probably most famous as a paragon of aristocratic misbehavior. He flirted with Catholicism and with treason. While married, unhappily, to Anne Cecil (Burghley's daughter), he had an affair with Anne Vavasour, ...

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