Shine Forth
Evidence Grows Rapidly In Favor of Edward de Vere as Shakespeare
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The goal of volumes in this series is to recapture the original and now- scattered Oxfordian literature, as well as early anti-Stratfordian literature of all kinds, making it readily available to students of the Shakespeare authorship question. With the onset of World War II, the English Shakespeare Fellowship had to suspend operations, urging Americans to take over. Eva Turner Clark was a Vice-President of the English Fellowship, had made enduring friendships with the remarkable English group, and had already published important books. Thus she was perfectly suited to be the stimulating energizer in founding the American Branch of The Shakespeare Fellowship in late 1939 at her Park Avenue apartment in New York. Once again astonishingly, a brilliant group of American Oxfordian researchers immediately emerged, making a steady series of impressive authorship discoveries in the 1940s and 1950s primarily published as papers in the official journals of the Shakespeare Fellowship, American Branch. The American group was guided by the dynamic trio of Dartmouth Professor of Humanities, Louis P. Bénézet, Charles Wisner Barrell, and Eva Turner Clark -- all justifiably regarded as the first American de Verean Giants.
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Few are aware that the true identity of William Shakespeare represents Western Civilization’s greatest mystery. Even fewer realize that the commonly accepted authorship by the illiterate William Shaksper of Stratford is a complete hoax manufactured by England’s most powerful politicians. This deception survived largely unscathed until 1920 when J. Thomas Looney’s brilliant book, "Shakespeare" Identified, plucked Edward de Vere out of historical obscurity and introduced him to the world as the real Shakespeare.
Compiled of authoritative essays and compelling book excerpts, the third volume in this groundbreaking series, Shine Forth salvages fascinating, neglected authorship material which repeatedly and convincingly shows that Edward de Vere was the uniquely creative genius who wrote under the coerced pen name of William Shakespeare. Combating the astonishing power of conventional wisdom, de Vereans have steadily built their case through solid research published in journals and books which have been subject to disappearance by the vicissitudes of time—until now.
With an impressive bibliography, well-documented sources, and an unshakeable desire to unearth the truth, this volume represents an historic achievement in the scholarship of Shakespearean studies, and reopens the dialogue on this controversial subject.
About the Author
Dr. Paul Altrocchi graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. After retiring from neurology in 1998, he has devoted himself to Shakespeare authorship research, publishing more than twenty scholarly papers as well as a biography of Edward de Vere. Altrocchi lives in Hawaii and has five daughters.
Hank Whittemore, author of eleven books and hundreds of articles, has received two Emmy awards. Widely published on the Shakespeare authorship question, his major scholarly work, The Monument, provides compelling new evidence that Edward de Vere was William Shakespeare. Whittemore and his family live in Nyack, New York.