BOOKS OF SIGNIFICANCE
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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and ElizabethCharles BeauclerkThe finest introduction to the Shakespeare Authorship Question with which one can begin, although Beauclerk's book is also a superb work for veteran investigators and researchers that contextualizes - in majestic and eloquent character - the personal and political inspiration behind the works of Shakespeare. |
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Shakespeare Identifiedby John Thomas Looney; edited by Ruth Loyd MillerAn adaptation, in two volumes, of the book by the English schoolmaster who launched the Oxfordian authorship thesis in 1920. |
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Shakespeare: Who Was He?by Richard F. WhalenA concise introduction to the Shakespeare Authorship Question. An excellent resource for students new to the controversy. |
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The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Authorship TheoriesBy Warren Hope and Kim HolstonThe updated version by Warren Hope and Kim Holston of their earlier survey of the Shakespeare Authorship Question. Includes an annotated bibliography of selected publications on the SAQ from 1728 - 2008. A censored and fragmentary but yet, in some ways, useful introduction to the history of the issue. |
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Who Wrote Shakespeare?by John MichellAn informative and dispassionate survey of many of the major and minor candidates for "Shakespeare," including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Roger Manners, William Shakspere, William Stanley, Edward Dyer and many others. |
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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biographyby Diana PriceA first-rate, scholarly demolition of the legend of William Shakspere of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Price doesn't suggest who Shakespeare was, but she demonstrates, irrefutably, who he was not! |
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The Mysterious William Shakespeareby Charlton Ogburn, Jr.The late CO2's magnum opus offers a broad and intelligent explication of the Oxfordian authorship thesis as well as a firm rebuttal of traditionalist assumptions about Shakespeare. |
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Hidden Allusions in Shakespeare's Playsby Eva Turner ClarkA vast, early 20th-century study that provides evidence for the origin of some of the Shakespeare plays at court during the 1570s. |
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Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Lettersby William Plumer FowlerAn extensive examination of Oxford's prose--principally his letters to Lord Burghley--compared with the works of Shakespeare. |
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The de Veres of Castle Hedinghamby Verily AndersonVerily Anderson's useful history of one of England's most ancient families devotes special attention to the 17th earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. |
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The Seventeenth Earl of Oxfordby Bernard M. WardWard's 1928 biography was the earliest study of Oxford's life to appear in print. Dated, but yet a valuable resource. (Photocopy edition) |
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Monstrous Adversaryby Prof Alan H. NelsonProfessor Nelson's book is a grievously flawed but yet valuable compilation of much (though hardly all) of the record attesting to the life of Edward de Vere. Ignore Nelson's moralizing invective and finger-wagging diatribe. Focus, instead, on the documents and their testimony to the man who may have been the pseudonymous creator of the Shakespeare canon. |
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The Anglican Shakespeareby Prof Daniel WrightProfessor Wright's demonstration of the Protestant stance of the writer who called himself Shakespeare--a stance that made Shakespeare, through the history plays, an invaluable Reformation apologist, historical revisionist and propagandist for the Crown. |
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Shakespeare: Co-Authorby Brian VickersStratfordian Professor Brian Vickers' convincing demonstration that the works of Shakespeare are not, in their entirety, the work of a single writer. |
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The Real Shakespeareby Eric SamsIconclast Eric Sams challenges a multitude of conventional assumptions touted by Shakespeare orthodoxy in this re-evaluation of the Stratford man's early years. |
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Shakespeare: The Evidenceby Ian WilsonA refreshing re-examination of the Shakespeare mystery and the Shakespeare legacy, from a Stratfordian perspective, by a prominent Catholic journalist. |
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Counterfeiting Shakespeareby Prof Brian VickersProfessor Vickers' repudiation of the hollow claims advanced by such professors as Gary Taylor and Donald Foster for the Shakespearean authorship of such non-Shakespearean works as the poems, "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. |
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Facsimile of the First Folio, 1623A reproduction of the original edition of Shakespeare's plays that was dedicated (nudge, wink) to Edward de Vere's son-in-law and his brother, published by Jaggard and Blount in 1623. |
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567John Frederick Nims, editorShakespeare's most extensively utilised classical source for his poems and plays--and, perhaps not coincidentally, the version translated by Edward de Vere's maternal uncle--now, after many years, again available in print. |
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Love's Labour's Lost: Critical EssaysProf Felicia Hardison Londre, editorThe Garland Shakespeare Criticism Series of critical essays on one of Shakespeare's earliest and most challenging comedies. Professor Londre's own essay on the play ("Elizabethan Views of the 'Other'") is one of the best short arguments in print on who its creator had to (as well as could not) have been. |
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A Hundreth Sundrie FlowresBernard M. Ward and Ruth Loyd Miller, editorsA potpourri of Elizabethan miscellanies, adapted from the original in 1573, including works that some scholars believe may have been compiled, edited or written by Edward de Vere. |
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Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poeticsby Prof Bruce R. SmithWas Shakespeare gay? Many readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, both Stratfordian and non-Stratfordian, are convinced that he was. In this work, Stratfordian Professor Bruce Smith establishes a case for reading Shakespeare's Sonnets with an eye toward achieving a better understanding of what might be their passionate expression of a forbidden love. |
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The Virgin Queenby Christopher HibbertWho was Shakespeare's Queen? Was she a keen politician in her own right or the tool of powerful men behind her throne? Was Elizabeth I a chaste sovereign married only to her country, or was the legend of the Virgin Queen just a political pose? Copiously illustrated. |
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The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation Englandby Peter Lake with Michael QuestierA penetrating examination of, amongst other topics, the Elizabethan stage as a powerful arm in the Crown's religio-political propaganda war for the hearts and minds of sixteenth-century Englishmen. |
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voiceby Prof Kristin LinklaterA guide by well-known Oxfordian speech professor, Kristin Linklater, to better command of the Shakespearean voice - which, it should be noted, she declares is that of the 17th earl of Oxford! |
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Chasing Shakespearesby Sarah SmithThis page-turning novel leads the reader on a jaunty quest into the mystery of the origins of the works of the writer we know as Shakespeare. |
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The Oxfordian (Volumes 1-10 [1998-2007])Stephanie Hopkins Hughes, editorThe peer-reviewed annual journal of scholarly research into the Shakespeare authorship question features contributions by such noted Oxfordians as Dr Sarah Smith, Dr Peter Usher, Dr Daniel Wright, Dr Roger Stritmatter, Dr Earl Showerman, Dr Charles Berney, Christopher Paul, Robert Detobel, Andrew Werth, Ramon Jimenez and many others. |
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Oxford and Byronby Stephanie Hopkins HughesThe astonishing similarities between the lives of Lord Oxford and Lord Byron could almost make one dismiss reason and believe in reincarnation... A penetrating and enormously interesting study of arguably the two greatest English writers by the former editor of The Oxfordian. |
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The Man Who Was Shakespeareby Charlton Ogburn, Jr.The great CO2's study of the Shakespeare mystery, from an Oxfordian perspective, in digest form. |
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The Relevance of Robert Greene to the Oxfordian Thesisby Stephanie Hopkins HughesA provocative study suggesting that the writer who adopted the pseudonym of William Shakespeare wrote, earlier, behind the name of Robert Greene. |
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Shakespeare's Son and his SonnetsHank WhittemoreHank Whittemore's latest book is a superb, easily read, and concise introduction to his "Monumental" and paradigm-shifting study of Shakespeare's sonnets. Indispensible reading for all students and teachers of Shakespeare! |
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Discovering Shakespeare: A Festschrift in Honour of Isabel HoldenProf Daniel Wright, editorA series of select presentations given at recent sessions of the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University. Contributors to this publication by the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre include Dr Rima Greenhill, Dr William Leahy, Dr Earl Showerman, John Hamill, Prof Michael Delahoyde, and many others. |
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The Monumentby Hank WhittemoreEasily the most important (and most substantial) study of Shakespeare's Sonnets in print and arguably the most important contribution to Shakespeare Authorship studies since J. T. Looney's publication of Shakespeare Identified in 1920. A "must have" text! |
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Macbeth (The Oxfordian Shakespeare Series)Richard F. Whalen and Prof Daniel Wright, editorsThe first in a series of Oxfordian interpretatations of the Shakespeare plays. This volume on Macbeth is authored by Richard Whalen, one of the series' general editors. |
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Hamlet's Universeby Prof Peter UsherPenn State Professor Emeritus Peter Usher's confirmation of Shakespeare's cutting-edge astronomical knowledge and membership in an elite intellectual milieu of cosmographers at the dawn of the scientific revolution. |
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Shakespeare SuppressedKatherine ChiljanKatherine Chiljan's superb treatment of the SAQ from one of the most scholarly perspectives in print. An Oxfordian masterpiece, insightfully researched and copiously documented. |
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The Shakespeare Enigmaby Peter DawkinsPeter Dawkins' massive, meticulously researched tome that argues, perhaps better than any other like-minded work in print, for the candidacy of Sir Francis Bacon as the poet-playwright, Shakespeare. |
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The Shakespeare Guide to ItalyRichard RoeOne of the most important books of original Shakespeare scholarship of the last century. A "must have" for SAQ scholars and aficionados alike. Beautifully and informatively illustrated. Introduction by Professor Daniel Wright. |
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The Shakespeare Oxford Society's 50th Anniversary AnthologyStephanie Hopkins Hughes, editorA collection of some of the more noteworthy contributions to The Oxfordian in its first ten years of publication. |
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Devere as Shakespeareby William FarinaValparaiso University graduate William Farina's vital companion text to the Shakespeare plays. A well-researched digest of the links of each of the works of Shakespeare to their creator, Edward de Vere. |
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Great OxfordRichard Malim, editorA superb collection of essays by some of Europe's best Oxfordian scholars; articles include contributions by Dr Noemi Magri, Dr John Rollett, Eddi Jolly, Charles Bird, Alan Robinson, Kevin Gilvary and many others. |
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Oxford's LettersSir Derek Jacobi reads selected letters by Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford. Compelling work compiled and edited by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes. |
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People and Their Contextsby Sally MosherAn insightful work that brings together seemingly disparate events to establish an historical context for our better apprehension of the Elizabethan Age. |
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Supplement to The Monumentby Hank WhittemoreThis digest of Whittemore's monumental tome is an indispensable accompaniment to the magisterial text of The Monument itself. |