Edward de Vere

In "Anonymous" he extinguishes literary scholarship by contending that Shakespeare's plays were written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

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The protagonist is Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, praised by literary "birthers" as the true author of Shakespeare's work.

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More than 50 names have been put forward as the "real" Shakespeare, with the most commonly cited candidate being Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.

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The film backs the theory that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, penned Shakespeare's plays.

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The protagonist is Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, praised by literary "birthers" as the true author of Shakespeare's work.

Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare

He is a distant relation of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who lived from 1550 to 1604—guess who Mr. Beauclerk thinks wrote the plays?

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The film, "Anonymous," will star Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth and Rhys Ifans ( "Greenberg") as Edward de Vere.

The Shakespeare Whodunit

Some argue that Shakespeare lacked the experience to write about law and politics, so an aristocrat like Edward de Vere must have written the plays.

The Shakespeare Whodunit

Candidates for the "real" playwright include philosopher Francis Bacon, dramatist Christopher Marlowe and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.

The Shakespeare Whodunit

The current money is on Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who had the acceptable aristocratic and educational pedigree for the job -- presuming, that is, that you must practice falconry in order to write about it.

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