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Shakespeare
(Independent, 5 xi '98)
A new computer analysis of stylistic features provides fresh testimony that all but
the more obscure Shakespeare plays (Merry Wives of Windsor, etc.) were written by
Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604). The supply of astronomical
references in the plays dries up after 1604; and the last ten years of actor-manager
William Shakespeare's own life -- though he by then enjoyed great affluence and
leisure -- produced only Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale, The Tempest and (with
John Fletcher's help) Henry VIII.
Just how William Shakespeare (1564-1616) could have written the world's greatest plays
has long puzzled historians and psychologists. There is no documentary evidence that
William ever attended Stratford's excellent Grammar School -- though the civic status
of his father [a glover and wool dealer] would have entitled him to do so. At age 18,
William married his pregnant girlfriend, Anne Hathaway, 26. By age 20, he had become
the father of three children, including two twins [a boy and a girl] so sought work
with a theatrical touring company which took him to London. Essentially, the question
has been one of whether largely untutored Shakespeare could have been sufficient to
the writing of plays involving a good knowledge of Greek, Roman, Italian and English
history -- together with awareness of the latest advances in astronomy (as in Hamlet,
where a starburst is mentioned that had only just been observed by English courtiers).
The Italianate Englishman, Edward de Vere, came from a distinguished military family.
Though violent and spendthrift, he was a highly regarded Elizabethan courtier-poet.
His lyric poem 'What cunning can express' is the best of those securely attributed to
him (Chambers Biographical Dictionary).
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