Publisher's Synopsis
William shakespeare was a pseudonym used by edward de vere, the 17th earl of oxford. This theory dates first from the 1920s and has been accepted by galsworthy, freud, henry james, hugh trevor-roper, enoch powell, and many others. The first part of the book shows how shakespeare could not have been the man born in stratford (at his death no one claimed to have known him, no tributes were paid, he was uneducated, left no books ...). The second part of the book reconstructs in fascinating detail the life of edward de vere. Even if you dismiss the theory one cannot fail to be captivated by this account of the life on one of the most interesting elizabethans, whom history seems to have overlooked. The third part of the book uses the works of shakespeare as a source of evidence to confirm de vere as the author. 25/04/88 set 10 on 11.5pt baskerville: b: 10000 at $7.99: 784pp: uc=129p: penguin max. UK YES
