Who is Henry Neville, and what old controversy has he suddenly become the center of?

lanfranco

Henry Neville (1562-1615) was a diplomat who is being proposed by a couple of scholars as the "real" Shakespeare. Coincidentally, I recently read a book about Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, thought by many to have been the real author of the plays, which makes arguments quite similar to those in this article on Neville regarding de Vere's relationships, travels, and so forth: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article317235.ece Oct 07 05, 1:41 PM

my_baby_love

Scholars have always been puzzled as to how William Shakespeare wrote plays requiring detailed geographical and political knowledge and advanced skills in reading Latin, Greek, French, Spanish and Italian textual sources - yet ceased his formal education at the age of 12. "We have amassed such a huge body of new evidence that the case for Neville being the true author of the Shakespeare plays seems overwhelmingly strong," said Professor Rubinstein. "We correlated the chronology of the plays with Neville's life and found that they match perfectly in a way that illuminates the evolution of the plays." Clearly the image of "the Bard" will always be the crowd favorite, but unless any undisputable evidence can be discovered this classic debate will most likely go on and on. Oct 07 05, 2:25 PM