If you are anything like me, and I think you might be if you are reading this, I wonder what was the very first rabbit hole that you went down? In my case, it was about 25 years ago and it was on the vexed issue of the identity of the author(s) of the Shakespearean authorship question.
I remember reading a column by the late Joseph Sobran on the issue and that led me to his excellent primer “Alias Shakespeare” which has introduced many people to the thesis that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the secret author of the works of William Shakespeare. I am one of these people – an “Oxfordian”!
Up until that point, like most people, I just went along with the traditional narrative that these magnificent works were somehow written by the simple grain-dealing man from Stratford that they called William Shakespeare. Yes, I have visited Stratford-upon-Avon and had the “Shakespeare” tour. What an industry has grown up around this myth and in order to sustain it we must turn a blind eye to the following truths!
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If you are anything like me, and I think you might be if you are reading this, I wonder what was the very first rabbit hole that you went down? In my case, it was about 25 years ago and it was on the vexed issue of the identity of the author(s) of the Shakespearean authorship question.
I remember reading a column by the late Joseph Sobran on the issue and that led me to his excellent primer “Alias Shakespeare” which has introduced many people to the thesis that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the secret author of the works of William Shakespeare. I am one of these people – an “Oxfordian”!
Up until that point, like most people, I just went along with the traditional narrative that these magnificent works were somehow written by the simple grain-dealing man from Stratford that they called William Shakespeare. Yes, I have visited Stratford-upon-Avon and had the “Shakespeare” tour. What an industry has grown up around this myth and in order to sustain it we must turn a blind eye to the following truths!
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