The Bookshelf

"Shakespeare" By Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, The Earl of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare. By Mark Anderson. New York: Gotham Books, 2005.

Chock full of fresh insight, this most recent book on the de Vere case is a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare or the authorship question.

The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Man and the Myth. by Charlton Ogburn. EPM Press, 1992 (2nd edition). 892 pages.

This 1984 book re-ignited the case for Oxford's authorship of the Shakespeare canon. "The sholarship is surpassing -- brave,original, full of surprise,--and in the hands of so gifted a writer it fairly lights up the sky," wrote noted historian David McCullough. Still the most comprehensive and persuasive book advocating de Vere's authorship of the Shakespeare Canon.

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The Man Who Was Shakespeare : A Summary of the Case Unfolded in The Mysterious William Shakespeare.
by Charlton Ogburn. (Paperback, 1995) 94 pages.
The Reader's Digest version of Ogburn's magnum opus.

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"Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
by J. Thomas Looney.
The grandaddy of all books on the subject.
Paperback facsimile reprint of the original 1920 first edition. 465 pages.
Avaliable used via Amazon.com

Alias Shakespeare. Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time. by Joseph Sobran. 311 pages.
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Shakespeare: Who Was He? The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon.
By Richard Whalen. 183 pages.
Looking for a book to introduce your high school or college class to the authorship question? Look no further.

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