Word: vere
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...those plays aren't really Shakespeare's!" That is the rebel yell of a hardy band of amateur historians as they catch the wave of the bard's new vogue to resplash their thesis: Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare; Edward de Vere did. What's more, an ivory-tower conspiracy is keeping their views from being taken seriously. "We're into something called bardgate," says Peter Dickson, a CIA official turned revisionist Elizabethan scholar. Shakespeare is not a crook, reply the defenders of the glover's son from Warwickshire. And each side casts the other as devils citing Hamlet...
That is some of the circumstantial but rather sexy evidence surrounding Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, in a contention that began in 1920 and has gathered steam through the '80s and '90s. De Vere led a life that was a veritable mirror of Shakespeare's art. Why then did he not write under his own name? It would have been unseemly, his advocates point out, for a courtier to attach his name to public wares. And De Vere was a truly uncommon nobleman: he was the hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and a sometime favorite of Elizabeth...
...READ WITH DISMAY YOUR ARTICLE "Caribbean Blizzard" [WORLD, Feb. 26]. Your remarks about "the Bird dynasty" looking the other way as drug traffickers operate in Antigua are unfair. Vere C. Bird has been a faithful servant of the people of Antigua and Barbuda; his two sons Lester and Vere Jr. have undergone the same kinds of political tests all other politicians face in democratic countries. For instance, it was Prime Minister Lester Bird who insisted on the public inquiry into Vere Bird Jr.'s involvement with an illegal transshipment of guns, placing his loyalty to the country above that owed...
Consider Antigua, for example, a low-lying island with beaches of soft white sand where both British royals and rockers like to vacation. Under decades of rule by Vere Bird Sr., the tiny island with a population of only 63,000 became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments...