... circumstantial facts. In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain ... Shakespeare" document, and emphasized in the "The case for Edward de Vere" segment of the "Beginner's Guide;" with the excerpt six-line pentameter stanzas in Shakespeare's 1593 Venus and Adonis play where h...

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