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The Shakespeare Story

Both Scientific and Documentary Evidence Relating to the Authorship Debate now exists to establish as a proven fact that

Edward de Vere, 
the 17
th Earl of Oxford and Lord High Chamberlain of England

was the poet and playwright known as
  William Shakespeare


 

      Cryptology
An introduction to Equidistant Letter Sequencing, and a method for determining whether or not a piece of text contains this type of encoding - The Cardano Grille and its construction - Nine ways to test the genuineness of a secret message - The monument to Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon under inspection - A scientific proof that Shakespeare was the pseudonym of  Edward de Vere - How the Shakespeare faithful have been misled. (pdf. 969 KB)

The Rival Poet Positively Identified
Conventional research into establishing the identity of the Rival Poet has repeatedly failed. Both the poet and the poetry that caused the rivalry have eluded Shakespeare experts to the point where it has been suggested that neither the rival nor his poetry ever existed. It can now be proved that  textual references in the rival poet sonnets exactly correlate with  historical records. The correlation is beyond coincidence. Hence, the rival poet, his poetry, and the cause of the rivalry are revealed; thus solving a longstanding problem in the understanding of Shakespeare. (pdf. 356 KB)

Greenes, Groats-Worth of Witte
A detailed examination of the letter purportedly written by Robert Greene on his death bed, addressing three writers to beware of Shakespeare. The flawed conclusions of conventional scholarship is logically exposed, and replaced by a more rational explanation for the letter and its true meaning. (pdf. 265 KB)

Proving Shakespeare  and  Shakespeare: To Be Or Not To Be?
The contents of these two books cover every aspect of the Proof that Edward de Vere wrote the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare. See: www.Orvid.co.uk

The First Folio
The tributes to the author at the front of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's collected plays invite suspicion. Both Leonard Digges and I. M. (John Marston, not James Mabbe) refuse to call Shakespeare by his name, preferring instead to hyphenate it as Shake-speare. The engraving of a figure meant to represent the poet is unrecognizable as either the same person appearing on the bust at Stratford-upon-Avon, or The Earl of Oxford who wrote the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare. And that was the intention. No one in Stratford would have believed it of their resident merchant, and Oxford was not to be recognized as the  author. Ben Jonson acknowledges this by declining to give any biographical information about Shakespeare in his own tribute. Instead, he confines his words to praising the work of the poet. Indeed, every phrase uttered by Jonson that refers to Shakespeare also refers to Oxford, even 'Sweet Swan of Avon'.

Henry Peacham's Chronogram
The play, Titus Andronicus, is different from all other plays by Shakespeare. The reason for this is because it was Oxford's first major tragedy, and written in 1574, when he was still in his twenties, and had yet to learn how to improve his art by studying plays of the Italian Renaissance. Fortunately, the reverend Henry Peacham, with his parish adjacent to Hatfield House, copied part of the dialogue from an early performance given at the House, and dated it using medieval Latin abbreviations. The date is 1574 when the man credited with having written it was barely 10 years of age.

The Secrets of the Sonnets' Enigmatic Address
Thomas Thorpe's enigmatic comments at the front of Shake-speares Sonnets (note the hyphenated name again), published in 1609 and written in asyntactic form does little to disguise the cryptogram it conceals. Yet, until very recently, such  has been the adulation surrounding Shakespeare that no one dared look too closely at what lay behind it, for fear of what it might divulge. The veil covering its secrets has now been lifted, and once again the Earl of Oxford is exposed as the author Shakespeare.

 

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