Authorship Theory

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Authorship Theory

For a host of persuasive but commonly disregarded reasons, the Earl of
Oxford has quietly become by far the most compelling man to be found
behind the mask of Shake-speare. As Orson Welles put it in 1954, I
think Oxford wrote Shakespeare. If you don't agree, there are some
awful funny coincidences incidences to explain away. Some of these
coincidences are obscure, others are hard to overlook. A 1578 Latin
encomium to Oxford, for example, contains some highly suggestive
praise: Pallas lies concealed in thy right hand, it says. Thine eyes
flash fire; Thy countenance shakes spears. Elizabethans knew that
Pallas Athena was known by the sobriquet the spear-shaker. The hyphen
in Shake-speare's name also was a tip-off: other Elizabethan pseudonyms
include Cutbert Curry-knave, Simon Smell-knave, and Adam
Fouleweather (student in asse-tronomy).(FN*).
The case for Oxford's authorship hardly rests on hidden clues and
allusions, however. One of the most important new pieces of O...

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