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"Shakespeare" Identified in Edward De Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (Classic Reprint) by [J. Thomas]

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"Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford

Preliminary Note
Introduction

CHAPTER I
The Stratfordian View

Growing scepticism; Ignatius Donnelly; Anti-Stratfordian authorities; "Shakespeare" and law; "Shakespeare's" education; Halliwell-Phillipps; William Shakspere's early life; Shakspeare and Burns; William Shakspere's three periods; Closing period; The Will; Ben Jonson; Hemming and Condell; Penmanship; The "Shakespeare" manuscripts; The First Polio; Obituary silence; William Shakspere's middle period; No participation in publication; Uncertain duration; Uncertain habitation; The great alibi; William Shakspere's silence; Character of contemporary notices; The Stratfordian impossibility; Absence of incidents; No letters; William Shakspere as actor; Municipal records; As London actor; Accounts of Treasurer of Chamber; Missing Lord Chamberlain's books; Notable omissions; Summary.

CHAPTER II
Character of the Problem and Method of Solution

Authorship a mystery; A solution required; Literary authorities; " Shakespeare's" voluntary self-effacement; Genius; Maturity and masterpieces; A modem problem; The method of solution; Stages outlined.

CHAPTER III
The Author: General Features

Recognized genius and mysterious; Appearance of eccentricity; A man apart; Apparent inferiority to requirements of the work; An Englishman of literary tastes; Dramatic interests; A lyric poet; Classical education; Summary.

CHAPTER IV
The Author: Special Characteristics

His feudal partialities; Aristocratic outlook; Lancastrian leanings; Enthusiast for Italy; Sporting tastes; Music; Negligent in money matters; Mixed attitude towards woman; Catholicism and Scepticism; Summary.

CHAPTER V
The Search and Discovery

Choice of guide; Narrowing the operations; The point of contact; The actual quest; An important poem; Seeking expert support ; First indications ; Dictionary of National Biography ; Selection justified; Competing solutions.

CHAPTER VI
Conditions Fulfilled

Personal traits; Personal circumstances; Summary of points attested; Remaining points: Sport, Lancastrianism, Woman, Religion.

CHAPTER VII
Edward de Vere as Lyric Poet

Expert testimony; Dr. Grosart's collection; Oxford's early poetry; Hidden productions; The great literary transition embodied in De Vere; Oxford's style and Shakespeare's. His character in his writings.

CHAPTER VIII
The Lyric Poetry of Edward de Vere

Six-lined stanza; Central theme; Personality; Haggard hawk; Lily and damask rose; Love's difficulties; Love's penalties; Mental distraction; Interrogatives; Stanzas formed of similar lines; A peculiar literary form; Loss of good name; Fortune and Nature; Desire for pity; Echo poems; Romeo and Juliet; The Lark; Tragedy and Comedy.

CHAPTER IX
Records and Early Life of De Vere

Reputation of the Earl of Oxford; Reasons for concealment; The shadow lifting; Need for reinterpretation; False stories; Ancestry of Edward de Vere; Shakespeare and Richard II; Shakespeare and high birth; The Earls of Oxford in the Wars of the Roses; Shakespeare and the Earls of Oxford; The Great Chamberlain; Father of Edward de Vere; Shakespeare and Father worship; A royal ward; "All's well"; a remarkable parallel; Education; Arthur Golding's Ovid; De Vere and law; Life and book-learning; The universities; Relationship with the Cecils; General experiences; Dancing; Shooting; Horsemanship; Early poetry.

CHAPTER X
Early Manhood

Marriage; Sordid considerations; Oxford and Burleigh; Burleigh and literary men; Burleigh's espionage; Hostility; Raleigh; Desire for travel; Unauthorized travel; Visit to Italy; Shake -------

CHAPTER X
Early Manhood

Marriage; Sordid considerations; Oxford and Burleigh; Burleigh and literary men; Burleigh's espionage; Hostility; Raleigh; Desire for travel; Unauthorized travel; Visit to Italy; Shakespeare and travel; Oxford in Italy; Domestic rupture; An Othello argument; A sensational discovery; Kicking over the traces; Burleigh's methods of warfare.

CHAPTER XI
Manhood of De Vere. Middle Period. Dramatic Foreground

Gabriel Harvey; Holofernes; Oxford and Berowne; Philip Sidney; Bovet; Eccentricity; Vulgar scandal; Dramatic activities; Anthony Munday; Agamemnon and Ulysses; Troilus and Cressida; Lyly and the Oxford Boys; Shakespeare and Lyly; Apparent inactivity; Spenser and De Vere; Spenser's ''Willie"; Shakespeare and "Will.'

CHAPTER XII
Manhood of De Vere. An Interlude

Execution of Mary Queen of Scots and funeral of Philip Sidney; Oxford and his times; Shakespeare and politicians; Mary Queen of Scots and Portia; Spanish Armada and Shakespeare; Death of Lady Oxford.

CHAPTER XIII
Manhood op De Vere. Final Period

Material difficulties; Second marriage; An important blank; Shakespeare's method of production; Dating the plays; Rapid issue; Dramatic reserves; Habits of revision; De Vere a precisionist; State plays and literature; Plays as poems; Henry Wriothesley a personal link; Contemporary parties; Southampton, Bacon and De Vere; Death of Queen Elizabeth; The Boar's Head Tavern and Gadshill; Death of De Vere.

CHAPTER XIV
Posthumous Considerations

An unfinished task; Death's arrest; ''Lear" and "Macbeth"; Three periods of Shakespeare publication; Posthumous publications; 'Pericles" and the Sonnets; "King Lear" and "Troilus"; "Hamlet"; First Polio; William Shakspere's purchases; William Shakspere's supposed retirement and Oxford's death; Loyal helpers; Henry Wriothesley; The 1602 gap; Horatio de Vere; The second Lady Oxford; The series of sonnets closes; Summary; A conclusive combination; The substitution.

CHAPTER XV
Poetic Self-Revelation. The Sonnets

Resume of points already treated; Southampton the better angel; W. H. and T. T.; The poet's age; Southampton and Oxford's daughter Elizabeth; a significant marriage proposal; Sentiment of the sonnets; The dark lady; Supplementary details; The inventor of the Shakespearean sonnet; An early sonnet by Edward de Vere; Romeo and Juliet.

CHAPTER XVI
Dramatic Self-revelation Hamlet

Shakespeare's contemporaries in his plays; The dramatist in his dramas; Hamlet and destiny; Hamlet is Shakespeare; De Vere as Hamlet; Hamlet's father and mother; Hamlet and Polonius; Ophelia; Horatio; Patron of Drama; Minor points; Hamlet and his times; Hamlet's dying appeal

CHAPTER XVII
Chronological Summary of Edward de Vere and Shakespeare

CHAPTER XVIII
Conclusion

APPENDIX I
The Tempest

A check; The Tempest and other comedies; Shakespeare's philosophy: Quality of the play; Dumb show and noise; Shakespearean details; Wit; A play apart; Medievalism; Woman; Horsemanship; Sport; Human nature; General Vocabulary; Not " Shakespeare's work.

APPENDIX II
Supplementary Matters

The "Posthumous" argument; Oxford's Crest; Martin Droeshout's engraving; The Grafton portrait. --The book itself contains this --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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BusstopWillyg

Wonderful!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2015

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Phenomenal book...Freud, I think, called it the best detective story he'd ever read.
Starting without a prejudice toward any personality, Looney sets up 12-15 criteria that no one who is familiar with the Shakespeare canon can deny.
Then, and only then, did he start his search for a matching identity. The writing style is too formal, but well worth reading. Along the way, you'll see how much de Vere's life matched up to the events and characters in the plays, especially Hamlet, and end up with a deeper understanding of the author's motivations.
I found Ogburn's book on Mysterious William Shakespeare to be the perfect complement to this book. It's thick, but wait til you read the OTHER insights and clues left behind that Ogburn relates. My favorite is the translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the work that even the Stratfordians claim is seminal throughout Shakespeare, happened to be deVere's Uncle, and his Latin tutor !! Ogburn speculates that the actual translator may well have been the teenage de Vere, working at his Uncle's elbow, cutting his poetical teeth on the Classics.
Read it and remove all doubt as to who was actually the man we know as Shake-speare...

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Lup10

Required reading...but preparation is recommended

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2016

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J. Thomas Looney was one of the earliest to write a scholarly argument for the true author of Shakespeare's works. “"Shakespeare" identified in Edward De Vere” is one of the respected classics in this field of research, one of the first to research this mystery for us and offer his resolution. Please, however, prepare with these two thoughts:
1. Mr. Looney writes with a detail that can become tediously wearisome. He uses with precision the classic rules of logic, even to the point of becoming picayune. He builds his case brick by brick, yet in a manner which seems objective rather than passionate. If you want to research Shakespearean authorship, you must read J. Thomas Looney.
2. I suggest, however, you choose an alternative etext. The text in this version is continually interrupted with "digitized by google" and other annoying undecipherable bits which are distracting and derailing of one’s train of thought.

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Michael Rider

REQUIRED READING FOR THE SERIOUS RESEARCHER!

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Looney, Ogburn, Sobran, and the epocal bio of Oxford by Mark Anderson - if you don't yet accept that Oxford wrote the works of Shakespeare, it is simply because you haven't done the required reading. Looney was the first to crack the puzzle, and for the serious researcher his book is the place to begin. But, really, Anderson's superb Shakespeare By Another Name puts the cork in the bottle. It's all over, done and settled. I have studied, performed and directed Shakespeare since high school. I attended Juilliard, and worked for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Sorry, but if you haven't read the overwhelming evidence of de Vere's authorship presented in Looney, et al, I'm afraid I cannot respect your opinion on the topic. For colleges and universities to continue to teach the fraud is, by this late date, inexcusable. Nothing Truer Than Truth!

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G Holmes

Great Book, flawed scanning.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2015

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Great Book! The digitization process has ruined the readability of the text though, at least for my Kindle version..! It needs a set of edits to the scanned pages to remove extra characters, extraneous information, plus a spell check should have caught most of the obvious errors in the scanning process.
This original work from the 1920's convinced Sigmund Freund and others that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford was the author of the "Shakespeare" material, and the the work of a master of the English language, versus the illiterate Shakesper of Stratford (who left a bed, but no books in his "will"!).
Mark Anderson's: "Shakespeare by Another Name" picks up this material and does an update, it is another great book that covers this material in detail

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Dennis Gannon

Overwhelming facts well presented to prove Edward DeVere wrote the works named for Shakespeare.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2017

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Looney presents overwhelming evidence that the illiterate peasant from Stratford was not the author as claimed by the establishment. Why does the establishment lie? To protect the royal name of Elizabeth 1, the "virgin queen" who was no virgin. And as the royalist party held for centuries, any attack on the royals was an attack on England. So, royalists and academia tow the party line. They are not the only established power to lie for centuries, but that is another issue.

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Frankiebluej

Worst PDF Scan I have ever seen

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2020

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I have NEVER complained about a book before...
This book was scanned and obviously never corrected. It is the worst PDF scan I have ever seen. I haven't seen a book this badly scanned, since the first few years of scanning were being introduced! Yes, I am old enough to remember and was involved in seeing it first hand in my own home.

Not worth the money. My opinion - for what it's worth - Just buy the original book. It's available at the moment (6 Dec 2020) for $9.00, under Shakespeare Identified by J. Thomas Looney. It was published in 1920. It's the book this mess was scanned from.

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Russael

Seminal work - just too bad it's so poorly edited

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This is a must read book, but unfortunately this version is marred badly by typographical errors. In a book where close reading of poetry is so central to the argument, the many, many errors mean that it is impossible to follow the proof except in a general sense. I am frustrated. Over and over Google advertises it was they who destroyed this book. Really badly done.

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W. Coulter

TOO MANY WORDS!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2014

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This book is evidently the touchstone for Anti-Stratfordians, and was certainly the first comprehensive examination of the Authorship Question. However, it's style is archaic, wordy and self-aggrandizing to the point of being boring. There are other, more recent works that cover the same ground and are far more readable - for example, "Shakespeare's Guide to Italy", If the Question is of theological importance to you, buy this book. If you're interested in it as a good mystery, or just to learn more about Elizabethan education, literature, politics, court ritual, or Italian Comedie del Arte, go elsewhere.

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geoff grainger snr

Absolutely the 1st true tome on the truth, that ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2015

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Absolutely the 1st true tome on the truth ,that is now on the verge of being accepted as gospel.There is so much to credit in this work ,as it is the Genesis to all other authorship books of note in my eyes, for many years to come.Looney's translucent wisdom and investigative prowess ,is truly breathtaking and intrepid for me.Thank God for somebody with common sense and astute powers of deduction or we may have been floundering in the mire of the literary fugue for many years to come.This to me is the authorship question tome ,by which all others are measured and only recently have only managed to surpass in brilliance and conclusiveness.

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Jethro J

This book is constructed of pages scanned with optical character ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 13, 2016

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This book is constructed of pages scanned with optical character recognition from the original publication , which I understand was written more than 50 years ago. It is cheap, but as it admits at the beginning, there could be errors in the OCR. That is a massive understatement! Words are often not just mis-spelled, but transposed and duplicated to such an extent that it is often difficult or impossible to work out the original meaning. Looney's argument that the Earl of Oxford wrote the Shakespeare plays is convincing, but it is a shame that this volume makes it so hard to follow all his detailed arguments.

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I M.

Worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 1, 2018

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Very interesting

Carly

Excellent. Everyone in the country should read this especially ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 31, 2015

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Excellent. Everyone in the country should read this especially Shakespeare lovers.

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Eliana Barosco

love it!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2013

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would recommend it to anyone really interested on deepening their knowlege of Shakespearean plays regardless of whether you believe in the authorship identity. The writer himself went through a great deal of analysis and provides clear evidence of his findings, therefore challenge anyone to do better!!!

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