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Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Nelson, Alan H.

Paperback

Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, Book 40

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0853236887
ISBN13: 9780853236887
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 1 2003
Pages: 548
Weight: 1.91
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford's life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare's works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford in over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson's book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.

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