The Shakespeare Conspiracy

Content Summary: Narrated by Sir Derek. Who was the man who wrote these plays and poems? Was the author a grain-dealer named William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon or Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford? Why there was a 400 year-old conspiracy to hide the true author? This video provides a stimulating and controversial point of view that is bound to provoke dicussion and independent study of the Authorship issue. Drawing on original 16th century documents and the Oxford Bible, this film makes a full investigation into the lives of both Edward de Vere and William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon. Revealing the former as someone already in his own lifetime revered as the best for comedies and the latter as a man who led a double life: prosperous merchant at home, well-paid frontman to the Elizabethan era’s greatest poet in London. This documentary also examines modern attitudes of scholars with a vested interest in the Stratfordian myth and their suppression of relevant facts to this very day...from TMW Media.com

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Sir Derek is on the Oxford Society's Honor Role of Skeptics, where he is quoted as follows: "I agreed to put my name to a school of thought that maintains that the earl [17thEarl of Oxford], Edward de Vere, was the author of the plays. Where did this Shakespeare come from? Where did all that knowledge and eloquence and truth come from? I am highly suspicious of that gentleman from Stratford on Avon. I'm pretty convinced our playwright wasn't that fellow. This opinion is very unpopular with the good burghers of Stratford, I realize, but they also make their living on the legend of Shakespeare's local origins. I don't think it was him." April 25, 1997

Also recommended by Sir Derek and others is Joseph Sobran's "Alias Shakespeare", which supports the Oxfordian theory; for more information, go to the author's website. For additional suggestions for resources connected to the Authorship Debate, go here