"But what if it turns out, as it just possibly might, that William Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the plays ascribed to him? There is a theory, advanced by reputable scholars, seriously and, in my opinion, plausibly, that Shakespeare merely lent his name as a cover for the literary activities of another person, perhaps the Earl of Oxford. If, by some terrible chance, this theory should be proved, then straightway Stratford's tourist business would dwindle. It would become just one more, and honestly not one in the first ten, of England's picturesque small towns."
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Reviewing James Shapiro's Contested Will (2010), Sir Stanley Wells wrote: "Those in search of the risible will find the story of the Oxfordian movement no less rewarding than that of Baconianism" ("Plotting Against the Stratford Man", The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2010).
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Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604) was an Elizabethan courtier, poet and patron of numerous writers.
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