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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Hardcover – Bargain Price, April 13, 2010

by Charles Beauclerk (Author)

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It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of English literature. Who was the man behind Hamlet, King Lear, and the sonnets? In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an enchanting feat, humanizing the bard who for centuries has remained beyond our grasp. Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and he convincingly argues that if the plays and poems of “Shake-speare” were discovered today, we would see them for what they are—shocking political works written by a court insider, someone whose status and anonymity shielded him from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author’s unique status and identity were swept under the rug after his death. The official history—of an uneducated Stratfordian merchant writing in obscurity and of a virginal queen married to her country—dominated for centuries. Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as into the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” You’ll never look at Shakespeare the same way again.

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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (April 13, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802119409
ASIN: B0058M7A7G
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,889,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A book to change your life: Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, author of the Shakespeare plays

By garby francis leon on October 24, 2011

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I've found that very few people can discuss this topic with any objectivity - some of the most learned and sophisticated people I know lose their critical intelligence and start spluttering invectives and insults when it comes up. So don't suppose this is one of those far-off metaphysical realms where gentle minds can ponder and dispute in serene, lofty contemplation.

Far from it. No, this is going to be a knife fight - centuries of academic pedantry and the careers of legions of sacred-cow 'experts' at the top of the academic establishment are hanging in the balance, and believe me, they will go down swinging. Leading the charge is James Shapiro's ugly, distorted and intellectually dishonest op-ed piece in the New York Times (Oct. 16, 2011), anticipating the release of the new film on this topic, "Anonymous."

But a closer look shows Shapiro - with two books and his reputation as a Shakespeare scholar to defend - coming off as just another puffed-up, academic bully headed for the dustbin of history. He's only the beginning, but it will be interesting, even something of a blood sport, to watch how many other so-called experts self-inflate with whining complaints, then go pop! Given the herd instinct of intellectual bureaucrats, who can't resist siding with centuries of received opinion and academic orthodoxy, no doubt many will.

Because despite all the 'expert' noise, facts tell the obvious with embarrassing clarity: the Emperor has no clothes. Wm. Shakspere of Stratford was a nobody, a nothing, a nonentity who could not and did not write, as far as anyone can tell, anything. It may also be that Wm.Read more ›

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A Masterpiece though perhaps not for Beginners or the Squeamish!

By Chris on January 28, 2013

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This is a terrific book - my favourite amongst the now imposing library of works on the Shakespeare Authorship Question (`the SAQ'), the great majority of which now support Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford as the true author of the Shakespearean canon of plays and poetry. When I gave this to an Oxfordian friend of mine to read he simply declared that "He's nailed it!" This was a person who had first introduced me to Charlton Ogburn (jnr's), 'Mysterious William Shakespeare' about 10 years ago and I think his pithy remark encapsulates what for those of us we have been looking for in the examination of the authorship question - and that is the deeper links between the life and the poetic drama and torments of the plays and the poetry. Beauclerk's literary analysis is simply the best thing I have read in decades.

Yet as much as I love this book, I almost feel there needs to be a warning on the cover: NOT SUITABLE FOR BEGINNERS TO THE AUTHORSHIP DEBATE! In saying that I don't think that means that people who aren't beginners to the authorship question need to agree with everything Beauclerk has to say - indeed in the two years since I read this I am now less convinced on one of the key premises myself - however the danger with jumping into this without first absorbing some of the more `basic' works which challenge Stratfordian orthodoxy, is that the more fundamental `baby' of Oxford's authorship - first clearly identified in 1920 by Thomas Looney - will be thrown out by readers who can't see it for the more shocking bathwater!Read more ›

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In depth recounting of the history of the period, ...

By Kathleen J. McCabe on May 21, 2015

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In depth recounting of the history of the period, but I think the author may give Edward DeVere too much credit for the English Renaissance in literature. Many of his conclusions, such as that Edward DeVere was Elizabeth I's son and her paramour, cannot be proved or disproved, but they do seem to be a stretch.

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Great history of Elizabethan & Shakespearian England, however sadly No Illustrations in Kindle version!

By Amazon Customer on January 26, 2016

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I have never been able to understand how an minimally educated country businessman could tell such epic court dramas based on both Greek mythology & English history. Now, through Charles Beauclerk's book the reality is that a member of the court did write the great works. The true story is stranger than any fiction created about the Stratford on Avon character. Well worth the read. I was disappointed the the gift of the Kindle version does not have the illustration that are in the hardcover version. Haven't been able to get an answer about how to tell there is a difference between the hardcopy & Kindle. Beauclerk spend a fair amount of text on the meaning in the illustrations he included.

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The Plays Are the Things You Must Read This for!

By Bruce J. Novak on June 2, 2014

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I am not a review writer normally. But I have been fascinated by this book for several months now, and go back to it again and again. Because I love Shakepeare's plays and poems more than I love anything or anyone in this world. And this book shows me the person behind them, and the connection between that person and the human content of the works, like no other I know. It mystifies me why the other reviews don't remark adequately on this--most of them not mentioning the content of the works at all. But you will never read Hamlet or Lear or Antony and Cleopatra the same after reading this book. And you will understand anew how Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens are autobiographies and meant to be read as such. Perhaps most poignant is to see how Shakespeare--like Lavinia in Titus, his tongue ripped out, but speaking through a quivering stick--speaks to the pariahhood of the human today in a world the dehumanization of which he foresaw in his depictions of the parvenu Cecil's--Polonius and Malvolio and Richard III. Like so many in today's world, they saw life as a game in which only winning mattered, and so they lost all contact with themselves while offering the platitude "to thine own self be true." The true "lost kingdom," lost even today, is that of human truth. Reading this book will help you restore that kingdom in which "the marriage of true minds" prevails, and which, like the kingdom of heaven, is always at hand, if we are awake to our souls and the life around us.

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I enjoyed the book and thought it was interesting, but whether or not it was the "true history" or not remains to be seen!

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Sandcastles of weak ideas, other Oxfordian books are far better

I've enjoyed other books on the topic. This one seemed to make extremely large leaps of logic, then take them as granted, and use them as a foundation for ever higher piles of... Read more

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A true search for the real author och Shakespeares work

A logical and scientific exploration of the authors production in order to find the reakl author. Very impressive and a real joy to read.

Published on February 21, 2014 by Jan Gillquist

In The Bards line.

Beauclerk is a bard himself, although he hates the analogy. Not a work I would normally read, but he's a fine chap, and I look forward to his book about John Ogdon, hopefully... Read more

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