Volume 31, Number 21 & 22 · January 17, 1985
The Sweet Swan of Oxford?
By E.A.J. Honigmann
The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality
by Charlton Ogburn
Dodd, Mead, 892 pp., $25.00
Is it a waste of time to read a book dedicated to the crackpot proposition that Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems commonly ascribed to William Shakespeare of Stratford? Mr. Ogburn bends the evidence and is sometimes inaccurate, but he has devoted several decades to the study of Shakespeare and Oxford, and he asks disconcerting questions that Stratfordians have tended to shrug off as unimportant. Even if he has not converted me to the 'Oxford theory,' he has changed my image of the man from Stratford.
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