DVS Articles

Evidence from W. Westerman, one of Prechter’s ‘Oxford’s Voices’, confirms that Edward de Vere is depicted on John Gerarde’s The Herball

That Sir Thomas More could not have been written by ‘anyone other than Edward de Vere’ reflects the sympathy and influence of More on the plays attributed to Shakespeare.

ChatGPT concluded that Edward de Vere was 98% likely to be the author ‘Shakespeare’ before it changed it mind having ‘expressed concern’ and ‘crossed a line’.

First editions at Audley End show convincing evidence of Edward de Vere’s handwritten marginal annotations relating to the Roman and other plays. This article was also published in the SOF Newsletter.

The satirist Joseph Hall is identified as the author of The Trimming, wrongly attributed to a barber/surgeon Richard Lichfield.

The second article on ‘Shakespeare Foolery’ identifies William Stanley as a ‘grand possessor’ and collaborator with Edward de Vere’s in publishing his plays in the First Folio.

Shakespeare is revealed as a Christian Hermetist. See also, Shakespeare and Religio Mentis Christian Hermetism and Shakespeare on https://deveresociety.co.uk/library/dvs-reviews/

The Scotsman who recognised Edward de Vere when he was captured by pirates in 1575 might have been living in Veere.

An invitation-only service for Lord Burghley whose spirit will ‘be kept alive in his son-in-law’s immortal creation of Polonius’.

The author of 39 essays on Edward de Vere and William Shakespeare. Full list of essays in print and on Dr. Graves’ website available to download here.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Euphuistic Story by Edward de Vere

Jane Austen, her Worlds within Worlds, and Shakespearean Authorship

Vere’s Rings in The Merchant of Venice by Ian Haste with commentary by Charles Graves

Brian Friel: Was one of Ireland’s best-known playwrights a secret Oxfordian?

Euphuistic Elements in Edward de Vere’s Tragedies.

1591 – A watershed year for Oxford and the English Theatre

David’s examination of the ‘Harleian Miniature’ portrait at Welbeck Abbey, inscribed ‘Shakespeare’ on the reverse, held in the same collection as the authenticated ‘Welbeck’ portrait of Edward de Vere.

Tribute to Tom Bethell Published in DVS Newsletter April 2021

Letter to the Editor. Relating to the article on Bridget de Vere in the January 2021 DVS Newsletter.

Jonson: Oxford’s Chief Admirer

Bridget de Vere’s Second Marriage to Sir Hugh Pollard (c.1603-1666) and its Connections.

Part 2 of David’s examination of the case for Elizabeth I bearing a child, based on the ‘pregnancy portrait’ at Hampton Court.

Part 1 of David’s examination of the case for Elizabeth I bearing a child, based on the ‘pregnancy portrait’ at Hampton Court.

John Davies of Hereford identifies W.S. as Oxford in ‘Microcosmos’

Part 2 of David’s exploration of Elizabeth’s relationship with Nonsuch Palace, in particular its gardens and the Grove of Diana.

Part 1 of David’s exploration of Elizabeth’s relationship with Nonsuch Palace.

This article forms the centrepiece of an issue of the DVS newsletter dedicated to the centenary of the book published by J. Thomas Looney in 1920.

Edward de Vere, Euphuism and Bi-sexuality.

That ‘Famous Persecutor of Priscian’: Oxford, Shakespeare and the Repurification of English (April 2020). Oxford is shown to be a powerful advocate of Plain English.

Brush up your Greek: a Homeric hymn resonates with Shakespeare.

Members of the Stratford Corporation in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.

Was AEmilia Bassano the Dark Lady or even the Hidden Author?

Shakespeare’s Bastard.

Our Enduring Authorship Mystery Still Awaiting Academic Breakthrough

John Casson, the source for Hamlet, and The Guardian

Author of Hamlet’s books? Petrarch’s De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, by Thomas Twyne

Was Queen Elizabeth’s 1571 gift to Oxford given to the Earl of Southampton?

Shakespeare: Seventeenth Century Biographical References to Shakespeare as Author

Towards Oxfordian Chronology of Shakespeare’s Plays

Shakespeare’s Knowledge of French

Oxford the Comedian

Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean
Biography

A Wedding Joust in Trebizond: Commedia Erudita and Sinister Politics in 1575. First published in the SOF newsletter, Summer 2018.

Lawyers and the Shakespeare Authorship Question

The artifacts of Abraham Fleming and the Lost Play of Edward de Vere

Oxford seen in the plays: Reasons 7 & 91 why Shakespeare was Oxford (January 2018)
Reason 7 – ‘The Courtier’ / Reason 91 – Dramatic Literature