Category Edward de Vere
From 1586 – two years before the Spanish Armada – to his death in 1604, Edward de Vere received a thousand pound annuity from the Elizabethan state. After the death of Elizabeth I in April, 1603, James I renewed the… Continue Reading →
The post includes high resolution photos of de Vere’s 4th Danvers Escheat letter, which includes the proverb, “finis coronat opus,” “the end crowns the work.” The proverb is repeated with variation in Shakespeare at least three times.
Greg Swann tours the zany world of hypocritical Shakespeare denialism and teaches us to marvel at the genius of Shakespeare.
The Blog reports on Richard Waugaman’s influential 2009 and 2010 Notes and Queries articles on the influence of the Sternhold and Hopkins edition of the Psalms in Shakespeare. Visual evidence from the de Vere Geneva Bible shows eight of the Psalms whose influence Waugaman discusses are marked with manicules in the de Vere copy of Sternhold and Hopkins.
A review essay on Sky Gilbert’s new “Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry was the World.” The essay connects Gilbert’s argument that Shakespeare was obsessed by “the dangerous magical power of words” to the authorship question and suggests that the real author of the plays made himself known in part through the word play of his dramas and poems.
The blog entry contests the facile and mistaken argument that Edward de Vere is not the annotator of his own Bible, using photographic evidence of handwriting and underlining in two of the three major ink types in the Bible.
The post considers the significance of one of the most striking of the de Vere Bible annotations, the annotator’s supplemental correction of the missing pronoun at Romans 7:20.
In coming weeks and months I hope to bring you many letters of Edward de Vere, of which well over 40 survive in various archive. Transcriptions of these letters are available on Nina Green’s archive, but nowhere on the web… Continue Reading →
Contains an image and text of Edward de Vere’s last surviving letter, written to James I on January 30, 1603.