3-6 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, was 'William Shakespeare'

Part 3: "... But Edward de Vere was very far sighted, and in fact, when in 1578, Gabriel Harvey, who was the Professor of Rhetoric at Cambridge, made an address to Oxford in front of the Queen, he said to him, it is disgraceful for someone of your station to be dedicating yourself professionally to literature. Put down the pen, and take up the sword! That's what an old feudal aristocrat should be doing; he should have a sword in his hand, not a pen! The Earl of Oxford responded by redesigning his family crest, which shows a lion, holding up a bleeding paw, and he redesigned it, and he put a spear in the lion's paw, the lion is now shaking a spear, and the spear is broken, and out of the end comes a quill or a pen. ...
But remember, we're in a society now in which the old feudal aristocracy is being disbanded finally. Henry VII, Elizabeth's grandfather, had started the process. Henry VIII, her father, had carried it on, and she, under her Machiavellian chief minister William Cecil Lord Burghley, completed the process, and disbanded the great feudal nobility. ..."

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.

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.

Category:

Education

Tags:

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

[rerevisionist]

Thanks. I think bits are wrong, but the general overview is terrific. NB I'm sorry it's not one continuous video - a youtube thing.

[alfabravo80]

what a great video!...so reasonable and illumunating.