Contains the material gathered by the author's investigation into the identity of the real Shakespeare--Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
An analysis of the mystery surrounding Shakespeare's identity explores multiple theories, identifying inconsistencies within the Stratford-upon-Avon hypothesis while considering the less supported possibility of Shakespeare's nobility.
The Man who was Shakespeare: A Summary of the Case Unfolded in The Mysterious William Shakespeare, the Myth and the...
The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
In the Stratford registry of christenings, marriages, and burials the rendering of the name as Shakspere is 'fairly uniform,' according to Chambers (Sir Edmund K. Chambers, the ultimate authority). In only one of thirty entries he ...
"Life of William Shakespeare" is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon.
Gililov has studied watermarks and printer's type, registration dates, and documented biographical details of Shakespeare contemporaries, considering the physical evidence as well as the personalities and motives of the suspects.
The Mystery of William Shakespeare
This short study is predicated on the assumption that the 'Mr. William Shakespeare' on the title page of the First Folio was the pseudonym of a writer whose identity has become irretrievably lost.
Ellwood P. Cubberley, The History ofEducation (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), 433; Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. Arthur Golding, ed. Madeleine Forey (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), xi.