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Dateline: 25th June, 2004
De Vere 400th Anniversary Thursday 24th June was the 400th anniversary of the death of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, whom some believe to be the author of Shakespeare's plays. Tomorrow the De Vere Society will be holding a day of talks and readings but their claims are dismissed by the majority of scholars. "They're barking up the wrong tree," said Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Professor Anne Barton, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, added: "I think it is absolute rubbish." In fact, de Vere died before some of the plays are normally accepted as having been written but the society contests the dating believing that the plays were written between 1575 and 1604 when de Vere died. They do not believe that William Shakespeare could have written the plays, "because he didn't have the educational or life opportunities to be able to produce the plays," said Richard Malim, general secretary. Other "claimants" to the authorship of the plays are Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe and Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembrokeshire, and the Globe Theatre will be holding a two day conference on ther so-called authorship debate on 3rd and 4th July. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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