My Name Be Buried
A Coerced Pen Name Forces the Real Shakespeare into Anonymity
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In the years after the end of World War II, the English Shakespeare Fellowship, most of its Giants having died, became more and more aware that their authorship research was not living up to the high level they established during the 1920s and 1930s or which the American Branch reached during the Barrell-Bénézet-Clark era of the 1940s. Thus at the end of 1958 did the Shakespeare Fellowship, based in London, decide to reinvent itself as the Shakespearean Authorship Society with a new research publication journal, the Shakespearean Authorship Review. Our next volume of this series, Volume 5, will be entirely comprised of articles from that publication. The rest of this Volume 4 will consist of excerpts from miscellaneous Shakespeare authorship books and monographs from the 1920s to the 1950s, not only by important Oxfordians but also by “agnostic scholars” such as Ernesto Grillo. His 1949 book, Shakespeare and Italy, actually was derived from his lecture notes compiled by his protégés after his death, but is considered a unique authorship classic of inestimable value to the cause of Edward de Vere as Shakespeare. The first selection represents pages 84 to 129 of B.M. Ward’s biography of Edward de Vere, the second “bible” of Oxfordiana. J. Thomas Looney’s remarkable 1920 book, “Shakespeare” Identified, was the first Oxfordian magnum opus. Ward’s book, based almost entirely on research among original documents, elevated him to the status of “Oxfordian Giant,” as was his father, B.R. Ward, who was chiefly responsible for launching The Shakespeare Fellowship in 1922. Yielding to pressure from the publishers, who feared negative attacks from Stratfordian professors and their powerful Stratford-on-Avon lobby, B. M. Ward agreed not to mention any link between Edward de Vere and Shakespeare although there was no doubt in his mind that they were one and the same.
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Few people are aware that the true identity of William Shakespeare represents Western Civilization’s greatest mystery. Even fewer realize that the commonly accepted authorship by William Shaksper of Stratford-on-Avon, who was illiterate, is a complete hoax manufactured by England’s leading politicians, William Cecil and his son, Robert, for personal reasons of greed and power.
The hoax survived largely unscathed until 1920 when J. Thomas Looney’s brilliant book, Shakespeare Identified, plucked Edward de Vere’s buried name out of historical obscurity and introduced him to the world as the real Shakespeare. Fighting the astonishing power of conventional wisdom, believers in the de Vere theory have steadily built their case through now hard-to-find scholarly research for the past ninety years.
This anthology series, Building the Case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare, 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.
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.