Oxford has quietly become by far the most compelling man to be found

behind the mask of "Shake-speare." As Orson Welles put it in 1954, "I

think Oxford wrote Shakespeare. If you don't agree, there are some

awful funny coincidences incidences to explain away." Some of these

coincidences are obscure, others are hard to overlook. A 1578 Latin

encomium to Oxford, for example, contains some highly suggestive

praise: "Pallas lies concealed in thy right hand," it says. "Thine eyes

flash fire; Thy countenance shakes spears." Elizabethans knew that

Pallas Athena was known by the sobriquet "the spear-shaker." The hyphen

in Shake-speare's name also was a tip-off: other Elizabethan pseudonyms

include "Cutbert Curry-knave," "Simon Smell-knave," and "Adam

Fouleweather (student in asse-tronomy)."(FN*).

The case for Oxford's authorship hardly rests on hidden clues and

allusions, however. One of the most important new pieces of Oxfordian

evidence centers around a 1570 English Bible, in the "Geneva

translation," once owned and annotated by the Earl of Oxford, Edward de

Vere. In an eight-year study of the de Vere Bible, a University of

Prospero delivers his farewell speech with the hopes that someone will

has broken, and Prospero's indulgence is finally upon us.

makes one last plea to his eternal audience. Drawing from a contiguous

Nashe, who included a dedication to a "Gentle Master William" in his

reflected in many Shake-spearean heroines, including Ophelia,

mirror of the gullible Earl of Gloucester's situation. As if

pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

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