Texts of plays, poems, and other works or documents from the period that are hard to locate elsewhere:
Richard II Part One (aka Thomas of Woodstock) by anonymous, aka the Earl of Oxford. Edited by Michael Egan.
THE AUTHORSHIP QUESTION
- “Though I be strange”
- Missing evidence
- Important Authorship articles
- Shakespeare on Oxford’s marriage
- SHAKESPEARE WHO?
- The Authorship problem
- Shakespeare the story-teller
- Why Shakespeare matters
- Expanding the Question
- History of the Question
- Authorship timeline
- The Top Six Candidates
- The Cover-up: who did it?
- Why it's taken so long
- Points to keep in mind
- Articles by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes
- BACKGROUND
- Richard III and the coverup
- Who were the University Wits?
- WHY OXFORD?
- Politicworm Bibliography
- Plays, poems & other EM texts
- 16th-century maps
- ABOUT THIS SITE
- YOUR QUESTIONS
- Where Shakespeare is referred to as “Gent” or “Master,” who is meant? – Howard Schumann
- Why is not the Basse eulogy from the 1640 Folio evidence of Stratford authorship? – Howard Schumann
- If Harvey didn’t write the attacks on Greene, why didn’t he protest?- Chris Kaiser
- What are your sources for “Oxford & Bacon: Prospero & Ariel”?-Jerry Harner
- What’s the evidence for Edward arriving on Smith’s doorstep at age four? – Marie Merkel
- Was Don Quixote written by an English author (Bacon or possibly de Vere)? – Howard Schumann
- Was Oxford a misogynist? – Ronald Chisholm
- Who is it that the Dark Lady has bewitched in Sonnet 134? – Howard Schumann
- Do we have Oxford’s horoscope? – Breck Breckenridge
- Doesn’t the image of the Queen in V&A contradict your description of her as unwilling to give herself physically to a man? – Howard Schumann
- If Oxford didn’t die in 1604, why no reference in any play to scientific developments after 1604?- Fred Nergenah
- Why did the coverup continue past Oxford’s death? – Alex McNeil
- Was Oxford Don Ricardo Barbarossa in Nashe’s “Have With You”?-Rolymo
- What are the certain connections between Fisher’s Folly and the University Wits? – B.K. McDonald
- Where can I get details about de Vere’s life that may pinpoint the ways in which his papers were dispersed? – Stella Samaras
- Why were none of the plays de Vere wrote as Greene included in the First Folio? – Chris Kaiser
- What proof is there that Bacon was Spenser?-Howard Schumann
- Can you explain the “seventh signature”? – Brian McDonald
- Did Oxford leave books behind? – Charlie Kellogg
- Was William Shakespeare, the actor, the Earl of Oxford? – Howard Schumann
- Why did Oxford have to hide his identity behind real people?––Chris Kaiser
- Why was it dishonorable for peers to write?-Michael Egan
- Why couldn’t Oxford admit to writing Venus and Adonis?-Michael Egan
- How did Oxford connect with William?––Lynda Taylor
- Why the vast conspiracy of silence?––Michael Egan
- What connection did Shakespeare (Oxford?) have with Francis Langley?––Jumpypants
- What’s the background to Much Ado?––Jumpypants
