OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL OF

1550–1604, English poet, b. Castle Heddingham, Essex, educated at Queens' and St. John's colleges, Cambridge. He traveled in Italy, acted in and produced plays, and 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. Bénézet (1958).

See his poems (ed. by J. T. Looney, 1921).

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Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Book by Alan H. Nelson; Liverpool University Press, 2003
Subjects: Dramatists, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography, Oxford, Edward De Vere--Earl Of--1550-1604, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Authorship--Oxford Theory
...STUDIES, 40 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1575, unknown...The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ALAN H...The life of Edward de Vere 1550 1604...latter half of the sixteenth...ends. As 17th Earl of Oxford he was among...
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Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby
Book by David Dutton; Liverpool University Press, 2001
Subjects: Ambassadors--Great Britain--Diaries, Derby, Edward George Villiers Stanley--Earl Of--1865-1948--Diaries, France--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, France--Politics And Government--1914-1940, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--France, World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives, British
...by Manoel de Andrada Castel...A History of the British...Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby...Ronald George Edward George Villiers...Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead...Friday, 17th May I went...Casteja, Madame de Jauze, and...3 Edward William Cavendish...
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A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
Book by Cynthia B. Herrup; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet--Earl Of--1592?-1631--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Great Britain--History--Early Stuarts, 1603-1649--Sources, Trials (Rape)--England, Trials (Sodomy)--England
...discussion in the Parliaments. The Edwardian statute invalidated accusations...the initially tolerant approach of Lord Protector Somerset, but also...Lord Hungerford in 1540 and the 17th Earl of Oxford in the 1580s, fit this pattern...
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The Second Cecil: The Rise to Power, 1563-1604 of Sir Robert Cecil, Late First Earl of Salisbury
Book by P. M. Handover; Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959
Subjects: Salisbury, Robert Cecil--Earl Of--1563-1612
...appointed ambassador in Paris, Sir Edward Stafford, wrote to Burghley...Cecil could write you the truth of it. . . . It was but to keep...went to stay with the Seigneur de Marchemont at Fontainebleau...Cecil had the start of the young Earl, who did not burst upon the French...
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Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, 1641-1702
Book by J. P. Kenyon; Greenwood Press, 1975
Subjects: Sunderland, Robert Spencer--Earl Of--1640-1702
...the wealthy Huguenot family of de Gouvernet. In the midst of all these tribulations it is not...secretary to the Duke of York, Edward Coleman, concentrated the hostility...and the King should turn to the Earl of Sunderland, who had been hanging...
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Mary Wroth's Poetics of the Self
Journal article by Nona Fienberg; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002
Subjects: English literature, 1603-1700 (17th century)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wroth, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...The Life of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626) (Washington...Books, 1984), p. 211. (17.) Edward Dering, British Library...Countess of Pembrolce (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990...Possibly by Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of Oxford (with...
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Getting It Back to Front in 1590: Spenser's Dedications, Nashe's Insinuations, and Ralegh's Equivocations
Journal article by Andrew Zurcher; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Nashe, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation, Nashe, Thomas--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Raleigh, Walter--Criticism and interpretation, Raleigh, Walter--Works, Spenser, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation, Spenser, Edmund--Works, The Faerie Queene (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...Communication in the Age of Domitian. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Nelson, Alan H. Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 40. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2003. Nelson, William. Fact and Fiction...
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The Poet's Power and the Rhetoric of Humility in Spenser's Dedicatory Sonnets (1)
Journal article by Wayne Erickson; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Humility--Portrayals, Spenser, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation, Spenser, Edmund--Works, The Faerie Queene (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...celebratory descriptions of Spensers poem, Spenser disparages the poem in which he says he has represented Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford. The vain, hot-tempered, disobedient, Italianate, forty-year-old bad boy and courtly poet, Burghleys ward...
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Books Received
Journal article; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
...Press, 2003. x + 275 pp. index. $55. ISBN: 0-19-515701-X. Nelson, Alan H. Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. xx + 527 pp. + 13 b/w pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl...
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Peacock in Love: Reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an Unknown Victorian Novelist
Journal article by Nicholas A. Joukovsky; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Jenkins, Cecilia--Criticism and interpretation, Jenkins, Cecilia--Works, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works
...Wheeler, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press...taking registers of births and burials...Landed Gentry, 17th ed., s.v. Stepney-Gulston...in the parody by Edward DuBois entitled...Count Reginald de St. Leon (1800...though the spelling "vere" was current in...her father, then Earl of Kingston, and...
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Shakespiracy Theory
Magazine article by David Propson; New Criterion, Vol. 24, February 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, History Play: The Life and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe (Book)--Book reviews, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare (Book)--Book reviews, Shakespeare by Another Name: A Biography of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare (Book)--Book reviews, Shakespeare: A Biography (Book)--Book reviews
...beast has birthed a faddish preference for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as true author of the works. (Mark Rylance...Shakespeare by Another Name: A Biography of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare, by Mark Anderson...
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Bard Thou Never Wert
Magazine article by Joseph Sobran; National Review, Vol. 43, April 29, 1991
Subjects: Dramatists--Biography, Playwrights--Biography, Shakespeare, William--Authorship, Vere, Edward de--Authorship
...who still cared to: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550--1604). More...the precocious boy Edward de Vere and dedicated a book...great Lord Burghley, Oxfords father-in-law, strikingly...been addressed to the Earl of Southampton; at the...
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Literary Class Struggle: The Bard's Identity Crisis
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, October 31, 1994
Subjects: Authorship, Disputed--Analysis, Shakespeare, William--Authorship, Vere, Edward de--Authorship
...Midsummer Nights Dream: Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. De Vere was the...Stratford-upon-Avon and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford--but at least 58...and King Lear. Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was first mentioned...
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Letters to the Editor
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 18, October 2001
...reading," she has still managed to end up with such a distorted view of "the current contender-in-chief, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford." While it is Freeds contention that "the Earl couldnt seem to write," I fear many a reader will be misled...
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Who Was Shakespeare?
Magazine article by William Rubinstein; History Today, Vol. 51, August 2001
Subjects: Shakespeare, William--Conduct of life
...some academic circles. So, if not Shakespeare of Stratford, then who? Probably the strongest candidate is Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), whose biography as the putative author of Shakespeares plays appears almost too good to be true...
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Earl Upstages Shakespeare in Theatrical Claim to Fame
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 15, 2001
Subjects: Shakespeare, William
...Bard was actually a frontman for Edward de Vere, the true author of plays such as Macbeth, Hamlet...strong evidence that de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, was the real author. He was...Writing plays in the 16 and 17th Century was, like today, not...
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Truth about Bard - or a Comedy of Errors? SHAKESPEARE: Stratford Expert on Playwright Criticises Latest Revelations as 'Mad'
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 25, 2006
...claims Shakespeare was raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in a safe house following a romance...to argue that the Bard was aware of his roots and reflected them in...playwright living one step ahead of debt collectors in London be the...
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US Theory Says Bard Was Son of Queen
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 22, 2006
...child, secretly sired in 1548, was raised as Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. The Earl is one of the main claimants to...placed in a safe home with the nobleman John de Vere, the 16th Earl of Oxford. The childs education was overseen by people...
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Battles over the Bard; Finding Essence of the 'Shakespearean'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 1, 2006
Subjects: Rosenbaum, Ron, Shakespeare, William
...was actually penned by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Many months later...Ogburn and the spate of recent popular books...the Stratfordian, the Oxfordian, the Baconian or some...no "official" texts of Shakespeare. Scholars...
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Truth about the Bard - or Comedy of Errors?
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 25, 2006
Subjects: Elizabethan drama, Phillips, Graham
...claims Shakespeare was raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in a safe house following a romance...playwright living one step ahead of debt collectors in London be the...Mr Wells believes the emergence of new theories are traditional for...
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encyclopedia articles on: Oxford Edward De Vere 17th Earl Of  - 4 results

 
 
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Oxford, Edward De Vere, 17th Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL OF 1550 1604, English poet, b. Castle Heddingham, Essex, educated...traveled in Italy, acted in and produced plays, and was one of the court circle of writers. On the theory that he wrote Shakespeares plays, see...
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Vere, Edward De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
VERE, EDWARD DE see Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th earl of . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Shakespeare, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...wrote the Shakespearean oeuvre. In the 20th cent. a new candidate emerged as the authorial front runner Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford . His proponents, the Oxfordians, cited correspondences between events in his life and those in some of...
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English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...were Thomas Churchyard , George Gascoigne , and Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford . An ambitious and influential work was A Mirror...with native burlesque. During the late 16th and early 17th cent., drama flourished in England as never before...


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