Sounds like my kind of biography, if I cared at all about de Vere, which I don't.
The most fascinating thing about those think that Oxford (or Bess herself, or any one of half a dozen others)is the revelation of their own intense class (and intellectual) prejudice. Not only don't they believe that a jobbing actor of middle class origins could not have written THOSE plays, they believe it had to be an aristocrat (often on the barmy premise that Shakespeare could not have known about Elizabethan courtly manners, when all they know about Elizabethan courtly manners was learned from reading Shakespeare) and/or someone who had been to University.
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The most fascinating thing about those think that Oxford (or Bess herself, or any one of half a dozen others)is the revelation of their own intense class (and intellectual) prejudice. Not only don't they believe that a jobbing actor of middle class origins could not have written THOSE plays, they believe it had to be an aristocrat (often on the barmy premise that Shakespeare could not have known about Elizabethan courtly manners, when all they know about Elizabethan courtly manners was learned from reading Shakespeare) and/or someone who had been to University.