Why such devastating characterisations of the Earl of Oxford
(e.g. by →J. Markham, 1624 the year of the appearance of the First Folio)?
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Edward de Vere ,
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The generally accepted chronology of Shakespeare plays supports the dating of 10 or 11 Shakespearean Plays which must have been written after Oxford's death.
Oxfordians maintained their view by shifting every one of those 10 or 11 Shakespeare plays back before 1604. This coercive measure produced definitely more problems than it solved. Too many of the "late plays" but also of „earlier plays“ show evidence of intense late(r) revision and additions and presumed collaborations which must have been completed by other playwrights after Oxford's death.
Thus the Oxfordian theory (almost a hundred years old) seems not to be robust enough to be safely defended
and to finally prevail, since obviously simple and logical questions can never be answered satisfactorily. A few examples:
How to explain
● Why language parameters (e.g.→enjambments) of Shakespeare’s plays exhibited a highly significant development, i.e. increase over the years, not ending 1604, adding considerable support to the orthodox datings of Shakespeare plays being substantially correct. (s.also →Peter Farey)?
● why Edward de Vere started printing his play only in his late-forties?
● who may have done those extended significant late textual changes and additions in the First Folio (1623) compared to earlier Quartos (e.g. MWW, Henry IV-2, Henry VI, Richard III, Othello)
● why none has ever noticed during the Earls lifetime the glimpse of the genius of a dramatist playwright and Poet
● why there exist such extended devastating characterisations of the Earl (e.g. by →J. Markham, 1624 the year of the appearance of the First Folio)
● why 2 decades after the Earl's death (1604) elapsed until the majority of the plays of presumed Edward de Vere (alias Shakespeare) did appear in print 1623 and Shaxsperes Monument was erected ?
● and so on
Oxfordians Hank Whittemore's live performance: His convictions on the Oxford-Shakespeare Theory , videotaped in July 2014
