Percy Allen -- Collected Writings on Shakespeare: Volume 6 -- Anne Cecil and the Dynastic Succession Theory, 1934-1943. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Percy Allen -- Collected Writings on Shakespeare: Volume 6 -- Anne Cecil and the Dynastic Succession Theory, 1934-1943

Percy Allen was the most brilliant of that intrepid band of independent-minded scholars and researchers who suddenly appeared in England in the 1920s and 1930s to challenge the entrenched dogma held by professors of English that the uneducated and probably illiterate William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon was the great playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Analyzing the evidence free from the restraints of authority and conventional wisdom, Allen and his like-minded colleagues showed that the principal author of Shakespeare’s works could not possibly have been anyone other than Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and the Lord Great Chamberlain of England. This seven-volume collection of Percy Allen’s works includes nine books, five booklets or pamphlets and 120 shorter works on the Shakespeare Authorship question that showcase his formidable research and logical and lucid eloquence that shocked the staid academic Stratfordian world, all introduced and edited by Shakespeare scholar James Warren. In Volume 6 Allen shows how de Vere’s use of the William Shakespeare pseudonym arose naturally out of events of the greatest political and historical importance as Queen Elizabeth’s reign neared its end and the issue of succession to the throne became of ever greater urgency.