mlet had a vocabulary in excess of20,000 words, and also had a first hand knowledge of the customs of the Danish Courtand of French and Italian cities. He used more than 100 musical terms as well as thenames of 200 plants. There is no documentation that William Shakespeare had access tothis type of information. Shakespeare may never have left the southeast of England. Oxford on the other hand, had traveled to Paris, Venice and other foreign countriesdescribed in the plays.It has been implied that William Shakespeare from rural Stratford was humble,much too limited, too uneducated and far too common to have had the capability to writemost of the plays containing such advanced vocabulary and worldly knowledge.Shakespeare’s first six published plays appear with no author names. Mr.Ogburn’s explanation of the use of Shakespeare’s name is that the Earl’s noble rank andcloseness to the throne did not allow him to be known as the author. His works wouldhave been subject to more harsh censorship than if written by a common man. So,Edward de Vere found a willing stand in; William Shakespeare, who pretended to be theauthor. Ogburn points out that the name William Shakespeare was not alluded to in printuntil 1598. The only recorded mention of him in his lifetime by anyone in the world ofletters was by a man called Ben Jonson.The most difficult obstacle to clear in considering Ogburn’s candidate, is theinsistence that the author of the plays must have been a nobleman simply because of theplays treatment of kings and nobles and high life in general. Nearly all of Shakespeare’s theatrical contemporaries were middle class men. Other authors, even far lesser ones than Shakespeare, a man who is thought of as thegreatest creative genius of all times, can convincingly capture lives, scenes andexperiences other than the ones they were born to.Many authors have stated that what writers write about is themselves. ...
