
The credit for what I wrote long ago has gone to a wannabe actor named Shakspere. Time to fix that.
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Chronological note: in England the date of the speech was 9 August 1588. Queen Elizabeth’s realm, understandably averse to papal bulls, had not adopted the calendar revisions promulgated in 1582 by Gregory XIII, in whose new style the date...
I have written at different times about Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, whose mother was my father’s sister. In the archive PDF of my no-longer-live blog, Tom can be found in Howards Beginning (page 172), in the first part of The Jesuit...
When I took my blog offline at the beginning of June, I was nearing the end of a project I had intended to finish before pulling the plug. Circumstances forced my hand, but now the project is done. A decade of writing was its gestation, fol...
—originally posted 11 May 2026 at edevere17.com
I had occasion recently to take another look at a very small painting. An oval, about 50 x 60 mm, 2 x 2.4 inches. It was made in 1588 by Nicholas Hilliard, the most celebrated limner and mini...
Imagine Sonnet 2 from its own extended far end, looking back at middle age rather than ahead to it.
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Sonnet 2:
Sonnets Day, 20 May, commemorates the date in 1609 when Thomas Thorpe registered SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS with the S...
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I’m Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. The plays and poems I wrote in the late 1500s are still relevant today. It’s easy to see my life in my work, though someone else has been given the credit for it. Who? A bit-part actor named Will Shakspere.
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