Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
In a 1989 Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter article, Oxfordian Tom Goff wrote about the intersection of affairs of state and the historical dramas of the 1580s (such as Henry IV and Henry V), making an interesting Oxfordian case for how the early Oxford/Shakespeare was most likely writing historical dramas in the service of the state at a time of impending war.
Questions have been raised from time to time as to why Oxfordians claim that Vladimir Nabokov doubted the Stratford story… after all, the argument goes, there is no clear indication in his works, nor in his biography. As it turns out, we were privileged ten years ago (1990) to publish in the Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter an obscure 1924 Nabokov poem — translated by his son in 1988 — that should, once and for all, settle any doubts about Nabokov’s Stratford doubts.
Oxfordian researcher Peter Moore wrote in a 1993 Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter article about the “other” famous sonnet cycle from Elizabethan times (Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella), and makes a persuasive case that the on-going centuries-long dispute about who Stella actually was is a perfect answer for Stratfordians who claim that no conspiracy or coverup would have been possible in the matter of the Shakespeare authorship dispute.
A Flawed Life of Oxford by Joseph Sobran Alan H. Nelson, Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (Liverpool University Press, 2003).
