For the purposes of this article the term "Shakespeare" is used to mean the poet and playwright who wrote the plays and poems in question; and the term "Shakespeare of Stratford" is used to mean the William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon to whom authorship is generally credited. The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.
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- For the purposes of this article the term "Shakespeare" is used to mean the poet and playwright who wrote the plays and poems in question; and the term "Shakespeare of Stratford" is used to mean the William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon to whom authorship is generally credited. The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. All but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe belief, and for the most part disregard it except to rebut or disparage the claims. Since the 1920s, there have been many alternative candidates proposed for the authorship for Shakespeare's works but the Oxfordian theory has predominated. Oxfordians treat as evidence the acclaim of Oxford's contemporaries regarding his talent as a poet and a playwright, his reputation as a concealed poet, and his personal connections to London theatre and the contemporary playwrights of Shakespeare's day. They also say that his long-term relationships with Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Southampton, his knowledge of Court life, his extensive and multilingual education, his academic and cultural achievements, and his wide-ranging travels through France and Italy to what later became the locations of many of Shakespeare's plays fit the background of the author of the Shakespeare canon more so than the obscure biography of the reputed author, to which all of the surviving documentary evidence attests. The case for Oxford's authorship is also based on perceived similarities between Oxford's biography and events in Shakespeare's plays and poems; purported parallels of language, idiom, and thought between Oxford's personal letters and the Shakespearean canon; and some marked passages in Oxford's personal Bible that Oxfordians believe correspond to quotations in Shakespeare's plays. Concerning Oxford's death in 1604, before 10 of the plays were performed or published, Oxfordians say that some references to Shakespeare imply that the writer died before 1609 and that frequent quarto publication of "new" or "augmented" Shakespeare plays stopped in 1604.
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- Title page from SHAKE-SPEARE'S SONNETS .
- Dedication page from The Sonnets. Both the hyphenated name and the words "ever-living poet", have helped fuel the authorship debate
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