Sobran, Joseph.

Alias Shakespeare : solving the greatest literary mystery of all time / Joseph Sobran. - New York : Free Press, c1997. - 311 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-299) and index.

This text claims that the link between William Shakespeare and the works published under his name is weak, and it argues instead that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a literary Elizabethan courtier, is a far more plausible author than Shakespeare, the obscure country actor.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Authorship--Oxford theory.
Oxford, Edward De Vere, Earl of, 1550-1604 --Authorship.


Dramatists, English--Biography.--Early modern,1500-1700
Teatro --Historia.--Bibliografías
Nobleza--Biografía--Gran Bretaña
Nobility--Biography.--Great Britain

PR 2947 / S677a 1997

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