By
David L Roper

ISBN 978-0-557-01261-9

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Contents

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  One The Monumental Truth - A Concise History of the Stratford monument - The Monument Reveals its Secrets - Jonson's Latin Distich - The Final Secret?

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  Two Reinterpreting Shakespeare - Birth Date Uncertain - A Dubious Education - A Marriage of Uncertainties - The Lost Years - Greene's Groats-worth of Wit - Venus & Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece - Four Years of Silence - Recalled to Life - Shakespeare Resurgent - Early Retirement - Last Will and Testament - Ignored Demise

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  Three Thomas Thorpe's Cryptogram - The-Six-Two-Four Key - Henry Wriothesley Revealed - Vere's Epigram - The Only Begetter

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  Four What The Sonnets Tell - The Fair Youth - Self-Revelatory Lines - The Rival Poet - The Dark Lady

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  Five A Shameful Cover-up - The Forgers - Special Privileges - A Matter of Public Concern - The Solution - The Allonym and its Effect on History - An Alternative Theory

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  Six Plays Sketched From Life - The Dating Dilemma - The Tempest - Henry V - The Merchant of Venice - All's Well That Ends Well - The Merry Wives of Windsor - Henry VIII - Hamlet - The Winter's Tale - The Taming of the Shrew

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  Seven Backdating Titus Andronicus - Time and the Shakespeare Canon - The Titus Manuscript - Tracing the Play's History - Dating the Titus Manuscript - Identifying Henry Peacham - The Errors of Orthodoxy - Comparing Hands - The Manuscript's Dialogue - Summary

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  Eight The First Folio's Deceptive Tributes - An Unexpected Death - Jonson's Rise to Prominence - Introducing Heminges and Condell - Contributors to the First Folio - The Droeshout Engraving - Jonson's Ambiguity - Peripheral Ambiguities

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  Nine Sweet Swan of Avon - The Cornerstones of Fundamentalist Belief - Wilton House - Death and Insolvency - Introducing Nashe and Spenser - By Royal Command - Much Ado About Nothing - Instating Oxford at the Avon

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  Ten Debunking Stylometric 'Proofs' - The Problem of Titus Andronicus - Mendenhall's Problem - The Matthews-Merriam Theory - The Elliott-Valenza Theory - The Sonnets Place in Stylometric Tests

 

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