A Tangled Web

EDWARD DE VERE - THAT'S SHAKESPEARE TO YOU!



I was reading Hamlet the other week (for the laughs) and marvelled at the skill of the author. I refer, of course, to Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford and England's greatest writer. For those who doubt this -please read this short article by Joe Sobran....your view of the Bard may never be the same again.



I have been a confirmed Oxfordian for some years now and found that by understanding the man, the works make much more sense. Hamlet, in particular.



Here's a few interesting points;

• Oxford’s Geneva Bible contains hundreds of phrases and verses highlighted, marked off – 29 of which are used as Biblical allusions in the Shakespeare plays (which had 66 in all)
• ‘Hamlet’ offers so many parallels to Oxford’s life and family history.
  
  ‘Polonius’ in Hamlet is comparable to Oxford’s (live) guardian, Elizabeth’s prime’ minister William Cecil, Lord Burghley. In that play, the character as did the live statesman (both) issued good advice or maxims which are incredibly similar: Polonius to son Laertes and Burghley to son Thomas Both Hamlet and Oxford killed a man; and a terse summing up of other facts of Oxford’s life is similar to that which one writer sees, and sums up, as the life of ‘Bertram’ as depicted in ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’
  
  
• The Earl of Oxford married and ‘wandered’ from his marriage
  
  bed; and there is rumour of at least one homosexual affair; one of his troupes was “Oxford’s Boys”; as with Bacon, sexuality is mentioned arising out of the Sonnets
• De Vere died possibly of plague, in 1604, at his palace in
  
  Hackney, and was buried in either the local churchyard, OR, suggests a later writer, in Westminster Abbey
• When Oxford’s wife died, nine years after her husband, it is reported that King James ordered that more than 10 Shakespeare plays be performed at Court; this is not explained.