De Vere as Shakespeare - Farina, William

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Résumé :
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare. This text presents the controversial argument for de Vere's authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare, offering the available historical evidence and moreover the literary evidence to be found within the works. Divided into sections on the comedies and romances, the histories and the tragedies and poems, this fresh study closely analyzes each of the 39 plays and the sonnets in light of the Oxfordian authorship theory. The vagaries surrounding Shakespeare, including the lack of information about him during his lifetime, especially relating to the lost years of 1585-1592, are also analyzed, to further the question of Shakespeare's true identity and the theory of de Vere as the real Bard....

Biographie:
William Farina is a retired real estate consultant for the federal government, now living in Evanston, Illinois. He has written books on Arthurian legend, early Christianity, the American Civil War, Shakespeare and baseball....

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments?????
Foreword by Felicia Hardison Londr??????
Introduction?????

Part One: Comedies and Romances
1. The Tempest?????
2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona?????
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor?????
4. Measure for Measure?????
5. The Comedy of Errors?????
6. Much Ado About Nothing?????
7. Love's Labor's Lost?????
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream?????
9. The Merchant of Venice?????
10. As You Like It?????
11. The Taming of the Shrew?????
12. All's Well That Ends Well?????
13. Twelfth Night????? t82
14. The Winter's Tale?????
15. Cymbeline?????
16. Pericles?????

Part Two: Histories
17. King John?????
18. Richard II?????
19. Henry IV, Part I?????
20. Henry IV, Part II?????
21. Henry V?????
22. Henry VI, Part I?????
23. Henry VI, Part II?????
24. Henry VI, Part III?????
25. Richard III?????
26. Henry VIII?????

Part Three: Tragedies and Poems
27. Troilus and Cressida?????
28. Coriolanus?????
29. Titus Andronicus?????
30. Romeo and Julie????? t173
31. Timon of Athens?????
32. Julius Caesar?????
33. Macbeth?????
34. Hamlet?????
35. King Lear?????
36. Othello?????
37. Antony and Cleopatra?????
38. Venus and Adonis?????
39. The Rape of Lucrece?????
40. The Sonnets?????

Conclusion?????
Notes?????
Bibliography?????
Index?????
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