First there were suggestions that William Shakespeare was assisted by a ghostwriter, now comes a notion – in a new book, “The Man Who Invented Shakespeare”, by German academic Kurt Kreiler – that many Shakespeare works were actually written by the Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere.
Edward De Vere also lived in the same area as Shakespeare and scrutiny of specific stanzas of poetry he wrote show their style was not copied anywhere else at the time, except in what we call Shakespearean poems.
De Vere also went by the nickname “Spear-shaker”, conclusive proof I expect…
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