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Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of

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Works that propose the Earl of Oxford as the author of the plays published as Shakespeare's include Percy Allen, The Case for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as “Shakespeare” (1930); Gilbert Slater, Seven Shakespeares (1931, reprinted 1978), which proposes Oxford and a group of his collaborators; H. Amphlett, Who Was Shakespeare? (1955, reissued 1970); Thomas Looney, “Shakespeare” Identified, 3rd ed. (1975); Charlton Ogburn, The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality, 2nd ed. (1992); and Richard F. Whalen, Shakespeare—Who Was He?: The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon (1994).

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