Edward De VereEdward De Vere was born in Hedingham Castle, England on the 12th of April 1550. He became the 17th earl of Oxford upon his father’s death and was raised as a ward of Queen Elizabeth in the home of Lord Burghley. Upon his father’s death when De Vere was twelve, his titles included Lord Great Chamberlain and 17th earl of Oxford. He got involved in a number of scandals including the romantic affair with Anna Vavasour. Later on, he passed away on the 24th of June 1604 in the London suburb of Hackney.
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Why others believe Edward De Vere wrote the plays and not Shakespeare
Others claim that this William Shakespeare of Startford-upon-Avon was not the author of the plays and poems and some of the reasons were;
- Not a single letter written in his book he owned has even been found
- -Shakespeare’s will has no mention of books, manuscripts, desks, shelves, papers or anything suggesting literary interest
- The only copies of William Shakespeare’s handwriting are six almost unclear signatures, each formed differently
- Shakespeare of Stratford did not educate his children. His daughters were uneducated
- William Shakespeare’s son-in-law John Hall kept an extensive journal, in which he wrote of the ‘excellent poet’ and Warwickshire native Drayton, but he didn’t mention his father-in-law’s fellowship with the theatre, drama or literature
- De Vere had the right education and social standing to write in detail about the classics, law, foreign countries and language. William Shakespeare of Stratford would simply have been unable to write about such things
- De Vere was well travelled, and spent most of 1575 in Italy à 14 of Shakespeare’s plays have Italian setting
- When De Vere stopped writing under his own name, Shakespeare’s text soon appeared
- There is no record of Shakespeare ever attending King’s New School, the local grammar school
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ShakespeareWhile others claim that William was not the author of the plays and poems, I think that there wasn’t a hard, definite evidence to support Edward De Vere as the author. I strongly believe William Shakespeare wrote them simply because the evidence clearly shows that many of the Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets were written and revised long after De Vere’s death in 1604. The was also evidence from the Parish records confirming his birth in 1564, records of his life in the 1600’s, his name as a part shareholder of the Globe theatre and his marriage certificate.
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