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Author Nelson, Alan H

Title Monstrous adversary : the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford / Alan H. Nelson
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 40
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 40.
Contents pt. 1: Roots, 1548-1562 -- pt. 2: Youth, 1562-1571 -- pt. 3: Emancipation, 1571-1574 -- pt. 4: Exploration, 1574-1576 -- pt. 5: Alienation, 1576-1579 -- pt. 6: Intrigue, 1579-1580 -- pt. 7: Sedition, 1580-1581 -- pt. 8: Release, 1581-1585 -- pt. 9: Reiteration, 1586-1591 -- pt. 10: Renewal, 1592-1959 -- pt. 11: Re-engagement, 1595-1599 -- pt. 12: Decline, 1600-1604 -- pt. 13: Aftermath, 1604-1613
Summary 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 for 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 a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604.
SUBJECT Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604 fast
Subject Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
Literary patrons -- Great Britain -- Biography
Landowners -- Great Britain -- Biography
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Courts and courtiers
Intellectual life
Landowners
Literary patrons
Nobility
Poets, English -- Early modern -- Biography
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century
Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography
England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004401816
ISBN 9781781387726
1781387729
9781846313592
1846313597