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The Monument: "Shake-Speares Sonnets" by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Hardcover – April 12, 2005

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  • Hardcover: 918 pages
  • Publisher: Meadow Geese Press (April 12, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0966556453
  • ISBN-13: 978-0966556452
  • Product Dimensions: 2 x 8.5 x 11 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,580,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsMost important work on Shakespeare in a century
By Peter Rush on August 4, 2005
Format: Hardcover
It is gratifying to read so many other reviews that agree on the importance of Hank Whittemore's latest book, The Monument, on Shakespeare's Sonnets. What Whittemore has accomplished is nothing short of breath-taking. He has achieved in the literary realm what Thomas Kuhn so excellently described for science 40 years ago: a paradigm shift, where it takes a totally fresh view, unemcumbered by the assumptions and prejudices of a given field of inquiry, to solve what are otherwise perceived in the profession to be unsolvable questions. Einstein's Special Relativity Theory, coincidentally exactly 100 years ago, is the best example of such a paradigm shift, where the only solution to the conundrums plaguing physics was Einstein's assertion that time itself was not constant, and neither was mass.

The difference in the case of Whittemore's work is that despite massive evidence that Shakespeare's Sonnets remain to this day a virtually totally impenetrable enigma, very few mainstream scholars even appear to recognize this fact. I have recently read the work of the only four scholars, so far as I am aware, in the last 50 years who have published either a paraphrase of, or extended comments on, ALL 154 sonnets. They are to be commended for recognizing the importance of treating the entire sonnet sequence as a whole, but in each case, in my view, they are a miserable flop at explaining the meaning of the sonnets.

What Whittemore recognized is first, that the sonnets are ONE unified, coherent, internally consistent, document. Whatever is said in one sonnet MUST relate to all the other sonnets. So long as there are (apparent) contradictions between one's interpretations of different sonnets, so long is that interpretation fatally flawed.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMaking Sense of the Sonnets
By Dr. John R. Fox on January 11, 2007
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While I always loved the language of Shakespeare's Sonnets, I had more or less given up on them. They were obviously deeply autobiogrqaphical, but to what and to whom did they they refer? Were they heterosexual love poems or, as commentators reluctantly came to assume, homosexual tracts directed to the Earl of Southampton who had been the dedicatee of the two long poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece? But how did the latter jibe with the failure of anyone to come up with a connection between the man from Stratford and the Earl? And what sense did it make when the first thirty or so sonnets where addressed to a young man urging him to marry and reproduce himself? And what about the "rival poet" and the "dark lady" who appear in the later sonnets? Many commentators have given up in despair and the orthodoxy became that the autobiography was irrelevant to the poems which had to be read things in themselves without outside reference. So I gave up. Until, that is, I looked into Hank Whittemore's "The Monument."

Whittemore works from the assumption that "Shake-speare" was a pseudonym for Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. The reasonihg behind this has moved from "crank" status to a new kind of orthodoxy, and indeed is all that makes sense of the disrepancy between the life of the man from Stratford and the poems and plays. We can't look at all the evidence and argument here, but we can look at how this assumption helps to explain the content of the sonnets. Whittemore sees them as a chronological series directed by Oxford to Southampton, who was his son by Elizabeth I, secretly put out for fosterage with the Southampton family. This is the famous "Prince Tudor" hypothesis, and before readers throw up their hands they should look carefully at the evidence.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMasterful, "Must-Read" Book!
By Gary L on July 3, 2006
Format: Hardcover
The Monument, by Hank Whittemore

I've been studying the Shakespeare-Oxford authorship question for close to 20 years. During this time, I had long ago become convinced that the real author of the Shakespearean canon was Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, writing under the pseudonym "William Shake-speare" and most definitely was not Will Shaksper, the man from Stratford who most everyone assumes to be the author.

Now, after reading Hank Whittemore's masterful exposition of the sonnets, The Monument, the authorship debate is unquestionably settled for all time. Whittemore's recognition of the author as Edward deVere is, to my mind, beyond dispute. Moreover, he has also identified the two other protagonists of the sonnets: the "Fair Youth" as Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton; and the "Dark Lady" as Queen Elizabeth.

Many other Shakespearean researchers have posited these identifications, so this in itself is not necessarily new information. Whittemore's original and lasting contribution, however, is that he is the first to uncover the correct historical and political context in which the sonnets were written. The main themes of this context include:

-The royal "love triangle," in which Southampton is the unrecognized son of Oxford and Elizabeth, and, as such, the legitimate Tudor heir to the throne.

-The deeply moving, heartfelt "unconditional love" that Oxford continuously expresses throughout the sonnets for the son he cannot recognize and the king who will never see his throne.

-The rejected "marriage proposal" between Southampton and Elizabeth Vere that dominates the "Fair Youth" sequence, which, if had been accepted, could have secured Southampton's rightful path to the throne.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 11 months ago by ERH
5.0 out of 5 starsin this one there is not one word wasted or unaccounted for

Hank Whittemore's study of the Sonnets is the most thorough and complete I have ever read. His interpretation of the sonnets is unifying and illuminating. Read more

Published 13 months ago by Michelle E. Stelting
5.0 out of 5 starsHank Whittemore is not only one of the nicest people ...

Hank Whittemore is not only one of the nicest people working on the authorship question, but also one of the most insightful.

Published 19 months ago by Mr HW
5.0 out of 5 starsI first discovered Hank Whittemore by coming upon his wonderful blog...

I first discovered Hank Whittemore by coming upon his wonderful blog on the Shakespeare Authorship question and his great "100 Reasons Edward de Vere is Shakespeare". Read more

Published 20 months ago by Joanne Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars"And thou in this shalt find thy monument"

This masterful literary detective work is brilliant. This interpretation of the Sonnets is the most coherent of all interpretations. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Yosemity
5.0 out of 5 starsthe book is an excellent doorway to the Sonnets

Very intriguing and well documented. This text give a solid argument for Devere as the author of not just these poems, but all of the Shakespearean literature. Read more

Published on December 25, 2014 by Mark Lippstreuer
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is the big one, folks

The most detail-oriented and correct study of the sonnets in history.

Published on September 2, 2014 by Leatherbags Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 starsthe DNA of Oxford as Shakespere

When they say "there is no i in team" one looks to the negative space within the letter A (when written in a block font) and therein is the letter i. Read more

Published on June 15, 2014 by old fan from 66 onward
2.0 out of 5 starsHanky Panky on Shakespeare's sonnets

Hank is not a Shakespeare scholar, expert, or authority on anything Shakespearean or Elizabethan...I don't know what he is.... Read more

Published on December 21, 2013 by B. J Robbins
5.0 out of 5 starsThe ultimate edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets!

Glad to have lived long enough to be able to read this great work with more understanding than has been possible so far thanks to
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Published on May 20, 2013 by Petersen, Arne

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