Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
ISBN: 9781846313592
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets);

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 OxfordOCOs life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing ShakespeareOCOs works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford for over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, NelsonOCOs book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented."


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