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COMMENTARY THE TREASON TRIAL
On The Sonnets Of Essex & Southampton
(Traditional) (February 19, 1601)
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OXFORD'S LIFE Living Three Monument Monument
In The Sonnets Record Winters Essays Structure
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Fair Rival Historical
Youth Poet CONTEXT
The Fair Youth is Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton; the Dark Lady is Queen Elizabeth I of England; and the Rival Poet of Sonnets 77-86 is Oxford's pen name "William Shakespeare" used to support Southampton publicly. The Historical Context of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS is both personal and political, following the fate of Henry Wriothesley in relation to Elizabeth's ever-waning life, reign and dynasty.
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Introducing
THE MONUMENT
THE MONUMENT sets forth and demonstrates a coherent explanation of both the form and the content of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, NEVER BEFORE IMPRINTED of 1609. A basic aspect of the theory is that the 154 consecutively numbered verses comprise a "monument" written and constructed by Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) to preserve the "living record" of Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton (1573-1624) as his natural but unacknowledged son by Elizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603).
This magnificent poetry, while universal and timeless, also comprises a genuine historical document -- in the form of a diary of real events unfolding in real time by the calendar -- that both supplements and corrects the official record.
The heart of the true story takes place during the imprisonment of Southampton in the Tower of London for more than two years. A central string of exactly one hundred sonnets begins with the tragic failure of the Essex Rebellion of February 8, 1601 and concludes a little more than a month after the death of Queen Elizabeth on March 24, 1603 -- during which time the all- powerful Secretary Robert Cecil held him hostage until the succession of King James was assured.
The author of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS of 1609 reveals himself as Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, the Hamlet-like nobleman who had been an intimate of the Queen and the great (anonymous) poet-dramatist of the Elizabethan Court during the English Renaissance of literature and drama during the 1570's and 1580's. To publicly support Southampton from behind the scenes, Oxford emerged in 1593 as "Shakespeare" -- shaking the spear of his pen in the service of Elizabeth Regina and her unacknowledged son...
"The Monument is the most significant book on the Shakespeare authorship question since Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, first became the candidate of choice in 1920. Summarizing ten years of brilliant research, Hank Whittemore clearly details the powerful evidence which proves beyond reasonable doubt that only de Vere could have written Shakespearešs Sonnets as a poetic monument to his son, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.
"If English professors study this magnificent work, they will inevitably become entranced by Whittemorešs compelling logic and the world can finally agree that Edward de Vere is indeed William Shakespeare, solving the most fascinating literary mystery of the Western World."
- Paul Hemenway Altrocchi, MD
Award-winning scholar & author of MOST GREATLY LIVED
"It has become increasingly clear that this book has opened a new doorway leading to previously unexplored pathways for studies of the Shakespeare works. Meanwhile, it's also clear that the orthodox version of Shakespearean biography is not only filled with flights of contradictory fancy but is in serious crisis, whether its practitioners know or admit it.
"The implosion of the "Stratford" author is coming sooner than many might realize, and The Monument is hastening the long-needed paradigm shift in terms of our perception of Shakespeare and his real-life involvement in a yet incompletely-understood Elizabethan Age. In particular, The Monument convincingly demonstrates that more than half of Shakespeare's Sonnets are focused upon the Earl of Southampton during his imprisonment for the Essex Rebellion -- a giant leap of recognition by Whittemore that allows Shakespeare's autobiographical testimony to emerge.
"It was Shakespeare himself -- Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford -- who promised Southampton: Your monument shall be my gentle verse, which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And now his promise, thanks to Whittemore's explication of the Sonnets, is coming true."
- Professor Daniel Wright, Ph.D
Department of Humanities
Concordia University, Portland, OR
Director of the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference
"Hank Whittemore has written the most important book on Shakespeare's Sonnets in 400 years. He has discovered that the 100 sonnets forming the central block of the collection have a strict calendrical correspondence to events associated with the Essex Rebellion of 1601, specifically to the trial,
imprisonment, and later release of the Earl of Southampton, who was the dedicatee of Shakespeare's narrative poems, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece.'
"Whittemore offers a line-by-line interpretation of the Sonnets, making transparent what had hitherto been obscure. While Whittemore's interpretation will undoubtedly prove controversial, it will be impossible for serious scholars to ignore it."
- Dr. Charles V. Berney
Founding President, The Shakespeare Fellowship
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