Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man who Was Shakespeare

If Mark Anderson and the Oxfordians are wrong, Edward de Vere is still one of the most fascinating characters to ever come out of England. If they are right, he is the single most impressive human being in history. Edward de Vere's education, experiences, social circles and travels amount to an overwhelming case in favor of the Earl of Oxford as the true secret author of the Shakespeare canon.

We may never know if Mark Anderson is right, but as a storyteller, he is clever and captivating. As an investigator - undeniably brilliant.

This book does a good job of making fantasy real and convincing novices to the authorship subject that fictional history is where it's at. Don't be fooled. Yes, William Shakespeare was not the Bard and neither was Ed Devere a self centered egotist who today has his minions doing much without demonstrating actual evidence. For the real thing seek out the evidence for Sir Francis Bacon who was the genius behind the name Shakespeare. Bacon left to posterity an actual notebook in his own hand which he called The Promus (storehouse), a Shakespeare diary that has entries of hundreds of Shakespeare phrases that were recorded by Bacon before the plays were performed or published. The Oxfordians have circumstantial evidence, nothing in the form of documentation and of course their guy died in 1604 before many of the plays were written. Shakespeare by Another Name is like the image on the cover of the book, cracked!