Edward de Vere: A Biography

By Lee Jamieson

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and a patron of the arts. A poet and dramatist in his own right, Edward de Vere has since become the strongest candidate in the Shakespeare authorship debate.

Edward de Vere: A Biography

"De Vere had the right education and social standing to write in detail about the classics, law, foreign countries and language. William Shakespeare, a country bumpkin from Stratford-upon-Avon would simply have been unequipped to write about such things."

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