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17th Earl of Oxford
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1550-1604. SHAKE-SPEARE. edevere17.com
Two books now. Details & links:
• Ovid book, MMM: https://edevere17.com/2024/01/03/metametamorphoses-the-boys-are-back/
• Nashe book, SWA: https://edevere17.com/2024/10/12/saffron-walden-annotated-nashe-and-ned/
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Tom's portrait by Hans Eworth sold for £3,212,000. Bought by the present Duke of Norfolk (#18) and the Arundel Castle Trustees, through an intermediary. Tom's son Philip (the Catholic saint) became Earl of Arundel through his mother, Mary FitzAlan.
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Tudor portrait of 4th Duke of Norfolk sells at auction for £3.2m
Sotheby's says the 1562 picture of the fourth Duke of Norfolk set a record for an Elizabethan work.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Have a spare £3million for a 1562 Hans Eworth portrait of my cousin Tom Howard, whose mother was a de Vere? Going up for auction on Wednesday. Tom's all over my blog, both with his head and without. (see Commiserating With Mary [posted 12 April 2025] for some details)
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Duke of Norfolk Tudor portrait could fetch up to £3m at auction
Sotheby's expert Julian Gascoigne says the portrait has been "spectacularly well preserved".
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November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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New post: Ten Years Limericked

Hard to believe I’ve been online for a decade. 🥳

I take a look back with limericks to begin, prose in the middle, and Physical Graffiti to tie it all together.

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October 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Okay, Lord Chamberlain, here it is.

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Haunted Shakespeare
At-risk students discover the key to the Shakespeare Authorship Question
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September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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New post. The SOF is providing free Oxfordian resources to US high school English teachers. Important project. I spend a few moments atop my soapbox, then Pearl Jam plays at the end.

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#Education #Oxfordian #ShakeSpearesblog #Shakespeare #ShakespeareAuthorship
Education • Shake-Speare’s blog
Bringing the Authorship debate to students is the most effective thing Oxfordians can do. The SOF has lessons & guides for 2ndary teachers.
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September 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Not the best rendering of her likeness, but it's the thought that counts. Happy Birthday, my Queen. (7 Sept 1533) #Shakespeare #EarlofOxford #QueenElizabethI #birthday
limner's sketch for illuminated capital E containing a not-very-good portrait of Queen Elizabeth, the E being the first letter in the word Emanuell
September 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Known for his debauched lifestyle, his flirtations with criminality, and the sheer volume of his output, the Elizabethan writer Robert Greene — who died #onthisday in 1592 — was a fascinating figure. @WithEdSimon explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/robert-greene-the-first-bohemian #OTD
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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New post: second edition of Saffron Walden Annotated, at Amazon. (Tom Nashe’s text, my annotations.) No huge changes but if you hate typos there are way fewer of them now. Links in the post.

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Saffron Walden Annotated: Second Edition • Shake-Speare’s blog
I’ve updated my Nashe book, Saffron Walden Annotated. Typos fixed, some annotations improved. [ISBN: 979-8-9892034-1-3] at Amazon, as before.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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New blog post with a new poem.

Sonnet 159: Morbidity

A sonnet about facing the shadow that takes centre stage as one's hour of strutting and fretting nears its end.

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#Shake-Speares-blog #sonnets #poetry #VeroNihilVerius
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August 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The followup to my broadside, as promised.

New blog post: Proof of (Nashe's) Life

The scholars arrive, followed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Proof of (Nashe's) Life • Shake-Speare’s blog
Proof that Tom Nashe lived has been posted. I have the link, and words to go with it. Then I have words with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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July 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New post: Shakespeare Yes, Thomas Nashe No

I brought up the artillery for this one.

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June 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I wonder who will get the reviewer's witty comment "[The director] contrives to do for this play what Nahum Tate did for King Lear." Says all you need to know. Apologies to my partisan Sir Derek Jacobi, who plays Friar Laurence. I'll watch it when it's on Netflix.
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Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical
With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast
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June 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Old-school tunes today. Never mind that they chopped off the top of my UFH (Ugly French Hat) on the cover image. As if it wasn't bad enough to begin with.

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My Lord of Oxenford's Maske: Edward de Vere and his circle, by Mignarda
28 track album
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June 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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New Post, one of paramount importance (or perhaps not):

De Vere Pudding Update

A question left hanging in my October 2019 pudding post is re-asked, after a recipe I couldn't find then finally came to hand.

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De Vere Pudding Update • Shake-Speare’s blog
A question left hanging in my October 2019 pudding post is re-asked, after a recipe I couldn't find then finally came to hand.
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June 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Happy Sonnets Day. I had #159 ready to post, but I was in a slough when I wrote it and now I think it's a bit too dark. Save it for some other time. You can find my less depressive new ones by checking the blog's Title Index under S.

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Blog Index by Title • Shake-Speare’s blog
Alphabetical title list of links to all blog content, with short descriptions. In the main menu for easy access. Minimal graphics.
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May 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Possible titles for new plays:
• Charles I, Parts 1 and 2
• The Comedy of (Hanoverian) Heirs
• All's Wellington That Ends Napoleon
• The Thrice-Married Wife of Windsor
• Callaghan's Labour's Lost [re-work R3's Winter of Discontent speech to fit]
• As You Brex It
• The Merchant of Stratford-upon-Avon
May 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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You never know where I'll show up. Lenny and the Squigtones return (their first appearance on my timeline was in February). Title's a giveaway if you know your plays. Cultured chaps, these two.

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Lenny and the Squigtones - Starcrossed
YouTube video by Squigenny
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May 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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New post: ChAIsing Wild Geese

Tales told by silicon idiots, full of the sound of authority, signifying nothing but a talent for telling tales.

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#AI #CaveatInquisitor #Shake-Speares-blog
#VeroNihilVerius #Shakespeare
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May 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The 4th Duke of Norfolk's execution warrant, tangent post to 'Commiserating With Mary'. Part of this reads like the Brave Sir Robin song in Holy Grail. A traitor's death at Tyburn was no fun, though in the end Tom was spared that end.

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Tangent: His Head To Be Smitten Off • Shake-Speare’s blog
Elizabeth signed this warrant for the Duke of Norfolk’s execution on 9th Feb 1572, then changed her mind. She did that a lot.
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April 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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New post: Commiserating With Mary

Plus bonus tangent post: Tom Howard’s gruesome 1572 execution warrant, transcribed by yours truly.

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#Sonnets #VeroNihilVerius
Commiserating With Mary • Shake-Speare’s blog
A long post about Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, and how he came to be the subject of sonnets. It’s not the story you've heard.
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April 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Have to pay those bills, Norman castles don't maintain themselves. Actually this looks like it could be a nice time. Cost you though. £7800/person +travel +£1100 if you (2 people) want to spend one night in the keep. 7th-12th September.
NEW! Historic Tours — Hedingham Castle
Hosted by Jason and Demetra Lindsay, direct descendants of the de Veres (also known as the Earls of Oxford) and owners of Hedingham Castle, for the very first time you are invited to stay at their pri...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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One of the best verbs I ever came up with, in one of the best pentameter lines I ever came up with, and the compositor botched it. There is no second r in *incarnadine*. Bloody typo has annoyed me for 401 years.

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Screencap from Macbeth in the First Folio, with the compositor's typo "incarnardine" instead of the correct "incarnadine".
April 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Would someone please be kind enough to find me a full list of all the other Elizabethan writers I'm supposed to be? So I can keep them straight, get the voices right, work on different handwriting. Shake-Speare didn’t keep me busy enough, it seems. I feel like Sybil Dorsett.
April 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Printed pancakes for the end of Shrovetide, and a visit with a First Folio under glass.

(The method in my madness is that it's better to link timely old posts than to keep mum, as I'm new-post-less at the moment.)

#Oxfordian #Shakespeare #Shake-Speares-blog

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393 Years of Printing: Plays to Pancakes on a Pilgrimage • Shake-Speare’s blog
First Folios toured the US in 2016. The Folger doesn't like me but I was nearby so I had a look at one. I also consider some new printing.
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March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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(1 of 3) 3rd of March, 1582: Thomas Knyvet and I duelled, blades unbated. He harboured a grudge over my affair with his niece, though the boy Edward was a year old already. The fight left one of my men dead, and Knyvet and I both injured. [cont'd]

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March 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM