Thanks to “Anonymous,” undergraduates will be confidently asserting that Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare for the next 10 years at least, and profs will have to waste countless hours explaining the obvious.“Anonymous” subscribes to the Oxfordian theory of authorship, the contention that Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford, wrote Shakespeare’s plays.
Among Shakespeare scholars, the idea has roughly the same currency as the faked moon landing does among astronauts.
- NYT Magazine.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
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