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  title info:
    title: Shakespeare's revolution
  name:
    name part: Malim, Richard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 2020 saw the centenary of Thomas Looney's book Shakespeare Identified in which he revealed that the author of 'Shakespeare' is Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), and not William Shakespeare, from Stratford upon Avon (1564-1616). Notwithstanding the irrefutable nature of his case, and the support of Galsworthy and Freud, the English academic establishment, buoyed up by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, refuses to investigate the case, although most modern critics usually include a denunciation (or worse) in their writings. Mark Twain wrote in 1909 that Shakespeare biographies consist of 'nine bones and six hundred barrels of plaster of Paris.' A hundred years later the position is unchanged, save that academia now cloaks the 'William Shakespeare' contention in a great fog of new 'science' of alleged collaboration and 'stylometrics.' They do this to buoy up the current generation of historical novels posing as biographies. Richard Malim, in corroborating Mr Looney's original thesis, launches a torpedo at academia's ramshackle position in logic and establishes the unassailable debt that all of us owe to the author's towering achievement in a vast field covering human psychology, politics, economics and literature. De Vere as the true author is the reason why English, a language known to a few hundred foreigners at most in 1550, supplants all others today. In the study of Shakespeare's literature, it is not just about how he wrote but what he wrote. He was not just the best but he was also the first. For Britain in this millennium, as a comparatively smaller nation in size and population, it is all the more important to have a proper appreciation of that paramount genius which is our principal gift to mankind.
  note: Richard Malim.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-450) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Looney, J. Thomas
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Oxford theory
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Earl of
      name part: Oxford, Edward De Vere
      name part: 1550-1604
  classification: PR2947.O9 M35 2022
  classification: 822.33
  identifier: 1528986423
  identifier: 9781528986427
  identifier: 9781528986410
  identifier: 1528986415
  identifier: 9781528986434 (ePub ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220614
    record change date: 20251017204602.3
    record identifier: in00004647269