1-6 Edward de Vere, Lord Oxford, was 'William Shakespeare'

For most people, this talk is all you'll need to understand the Shakespeare authorship issue.
Part 1. Brilliant 50 minute talk - overview of why de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real Shakespeare, not the Stratford man. Delivered in 1995. The speaker's opinions and researches have continued to develop and deepen since then.

Part 1: "What I want to do this evening is really give an introductory talk to the whole authorship issue. Instead of just giving a whole list of facts, and saying this is why the Stratford man can't have been the author, and this is why the Earl of Oxford was, I want to take a broader, more philosophical approach and put Shakespeare in his cultural and historical context, and show you from that, that William Shaksper of Stratford, the part-time actor and entrepreneur, could not have been the author William Shakespeare. ..."

Followed by question and answer session, also about 50 minutes. Some of the questioners are hostile; listen to the brilliantly-informed replies. (The questions are not very audible, presumably for recording reasons).

Much of the material is to be found in the original 1920s book on de Vere, the first to identify him as Shakespeare. And much of it appears in the film 'Anonymous'.

250,000 people - I guesstimate 30 million secondary school students in the US/Canada, UK, ANZ. I've guessed Eng Lit students and teachers etc at a fairly advanced level make about 1% of that figure.

***MANY APOLOGIES FOR THE SIX PARTS - YOUTUBE'S POLICY, NOT MY DECISION***

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Shakespeare
• Oxford
• Edward de Vere
• 17th Earl of Oxford
• authorship
• England
• Elizabeth I
• Elizabethan
• Stratford

[eckrich60]

Who is the speaker? What is his name? Where was this address recorded?

[rerevisionist]

@eckrich60 - Ahah - my secret

[rerevisionist]

The photo is the Great Hall in Hedingham Castle. Slow zoom into the de Vere coat of arms.

[ShakespeareChannel]

Thanks foe posting. You may be interested in seeing part 1 of my amateur documentary, The Real Edward de Vere, which has just been uploaded to my channel.