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

(Part of the Liverpool English Texts and Studies Series)

by Alan H. Nelson

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0853236887

ISBN13:9780853236887

Release Date:August 2003

Publisher:Liverpool University Press

Length:548 Pages

Weight:1.76 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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