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100 1 $aWhalen, Richard F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94033024
245 10 $aShakespeare--who was he? :$bthe Oxford challenge to the Bard of Avon /$cRichard F. Whalen ; foreword by Paul H. Nitze.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger,$c1994.
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300 $axix, 183 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Paul H. Nitze -- Pt. I. The Incumbent: The Man from Stratford. 1. A Strikingly Mundane Life. 2. The Missing Literary Evidence. 3. Shakspere versus Shakespeare. 4. The Case for Will Shakspere as Author. 5. The Ambiguous Testimony of the First Folio -- Pt. II. The Leading Challenger: The Earl of Oxford. 6. The Search for the True Author. 7. Oxford's Literary Life. 8. The Case for Oxford as Author. 9. Oxford's Life Span and Dating the Plays. 10. Oxford Revealed in Shakespeare's Plays. 11. Objections to Oxford as Shakespeare. 12. Resolving the Authorship Issue -- Appendix A. Records of Will Shakspere's Theater Activities -- Appendix B. "Shake-scene," Groatsworth, and Chettle -- Appendix C. Ben Jonson's Notebook, Timber -- Appendix D. The Benezet Test.
520 $aWilliam Shakespeare is the only literary figure whose very identity is a matter of long-standing and continuing dispute. Was he really the glover's son from Stratford-on-Avon? Or was he someone else writing under the pseudonym William Shakespeare?
520 8 $aThe question has been called the foremost literary problem in world literature and "history's biggest literary whodunnit." Interest in it has never been greater, and that interest is growing now that a consensus has formed for Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, as the leading candidate.
520 8 $aWhalen's book is the first to provide a clear, concise, readable summary for the general reader, one that analyzes the main arguments for both the man from Stratford-on-Avon and the earl of Oxford. His conclusion? The case for Oxford is much more persuasive. This book will be required reading for those who love Shakespeare and want to know more about why the authorship controversy persists.
520 8 $aThe main narrative, which takes the reader easily through the pros and cons for each man, is supplemented by extensive, entertaining endnotes and appendixes, plus a comprehensive, annotated bibliography.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xAuthorship$xOxford theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120839
600 10 $aOxford, Edward De Vere,$cEarl of,$d1550-1604$xAuthorship.
650 0 $aDramatists, English$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102397
650 0 $aNobility$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108424
650 0 $aPlaywriting.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103395
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