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Shakespeare: To Be Or Not To Be?   This book examines and analyses the evidence proposed in support of William Shakespeare as the uncontested author of the plays and poems published under that name. At the same time, this evidence is weighed against the alternative proposal that Shakespeare acted as an allonym for an author whose social status amongst England's ruling class debarred him from public acknowledgement as a playwright working for actors. The author clearly demonstrates that in an age which controlled the public voice with an iron fist, it was left to innuendo, puns, and the latest discovery in cryptology by the mathematician, Cardano, to express what historian William Camden confirmed was a conspiracy, organized  by the then present powers to efface an event from the memory of future generations. The arguments against this being Edward de Vere's authorship of the homo-erotic sonnets addressed to the teenage Earl of Southampton, and the plays characterizing members of Elizabeth's court, are contradicted by contemporaneous written evidence from Jonson, Nashe, Chettle, Thorpe, Marston, Digges, &c. who have either named or identified de Vere as Shakespeare. Against this, the book examines the contrary evidence adopted by conventional teaching that Shakespeare's authorship is guaranteed by the First Folio, the Stratford Monument, Greene's Groats-worth of Wit, Jonson's reference to Sweet Swan of Avon and the composition of plays alleged to have been written after the death of de Vere.

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Content:  Introduction. 1) Birth and Education. 2) A Marriage of Uncertainties. 3) The Lost Years. 4) Greenes Groats-Worth of Witte. 5) Venus and Adonis. 6) Shakespeare's Silence. 7) Silent Tongues Give Praise. 8) Predating Venus & Adonis. 9) A Shakespeare First Performance. 10) Shakespeare's Learning Curve. 11) Shakespeare Emerges from the Shadows. 12) Shakespeare Named and Famed. 13) The Artful Lodger. 14) Death of A Queen. 15) On the Banks of the Avon. 16) Early Retirement. 17) The Stratford Years. 18) The Rival Poet. 19) The Dark Lady. 20) A Scandalous Affair. 21) Will Shakspere gent. Deceased. 22) The Stratford Monument. 23) The First Folio. -  Afterword, Appendix A, Appendix B, Bibliography, Index 

Nostradamus: The Truth  The prophecies of this 16th century medical doctor have seldom been out of print. In the intervening centuries they have been the subject of both amazement and derision. Yet, despite this current age of scientific materialism, the author proves, by the use of historical records that the prophecies are 100% genuine. Dates given by Nostradamus are shown to be always pinpoint accurate, and the names the seer provided are, without exception, always a part of the history he foretold. The book traces the history of France from the year 1555 up to the present time, but expands to encompass predictions made for countries that later emerged onto the world stage. Covering this wide span of years, 200 of the intended 1000 stanzas are shown to be totally prophetic, with every word and phrase coherently explained. Far from contradicting the discoveries made by science, the author shows that mankind's present understanding of the universe is logically compatible with the prophetic knowledge given to this important seer.

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Content:  Introduction. 1) Introducing Michel de Nostredame. 2) The Last of the Valois (1557-1589). 3) The First Bourbons (1590-1643). 4) From Supremacy to Decline (1644-1788). 5) England's Century of Turmoil (1600-1700). 6) The French Revolution (1789-1799). 7) The Napoleonic Era (1800-1815). 8) From Restoration to Republic (1816-1886). 9) The World At War (1887-1945). 10) Unlasting Peace (1946-2009). - Appendix, Afterword, References, Index. 

 Proving Shakespeare   The questions surrounding the life of William Shakespeare are seldom examined critically by his biographers, for the inherent danger these pose to existing belief. This book redresses the omissions by re-examining the case for Shakespeare against that of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. In the process of sifting the evidence available, certain inconsistencies have been noted in the case for Shakespeare, as put forward by past biographers, When these have been corrected and additional evidence from contemporaries, such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Thorpe, Henry Chettle and others, are introduced into the problem, the reason for the Authorship controversy becomes much more apparent. "Proving Shakespeare" provides a number of different proofs that settle the Authorship question. These have been found to be logically sound, and to represent a coherent account of who Shakespeare really was, and why his literary output became subjected to total censorship.

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Content:  Introduction. 1) The Monumental Truth. [A concise history of the Stratford monument; the monument reveals its secret; Jonson's Latin distich; The final secret?]  2)  Reinterpreting Shakespeare. [Birth date uncertain; a dubious education; a marriage of uncertainties; the lost years; Greene's Groats-worth of Wit; Venus & Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece; four years of silence; recalled to life; Shakespeare resurgent; early retirement; last will and testament; Ignored demise.]  3)  Thomas Thorpe's Cryptogram. [The six-two-four key; Henry Wriothesley revealed; Vere's epigram; the only begetter.]  4) What the Sonnets Tell. [The fair youth; self-revelatory lines; the rival poet; the dark lady.]  5)  A Shameful Cover-up. [The forgers; special privileges; a matter of public concern; the solution; the allonym and its effect on history; an alternative theory.]  6)  Plays Sketched from Life. [The dating dilemma; the Tempest; Henry V; the Merchant of Venice; All's Well that Ends Well; the Merry Wives of Windsor; Henry VIII; Hamlet; the Winter's Tale; the Taming of the Shrew.]  7)  Backdating Titus Andronicus. [Time and the Shakespeare canon; the Titus manuscript; tracing the play's history; dating the Titus manuscript; identifying Henry Peacham; the errors of orthodoxy; comparing hands; the manuscript's dialogue; summary.]  8)  The First Folio's Deceptive Tributes. [An unexpected death; Jonson's rise to prominence; introducing Heminge and Condell; contributors to the First Folio; the Droeshout engraving; Jonson's ambiguity; peripheral ambiguities.]  9)  Sweet Swan of Wilton's Avon. [The cornerstones of fundamental belief; Wilton House; death and insolvency; introducing Nashe and Spenser; by royal command; Much Ado About Nothing; installing Oxford at the Avon.]  10)  Debunking Stylometric 'Proofs'. [The problem of Titus Andronicus; Mendenhall's problem; the Matthews-Merriam theory; the Elliott-Valenza theory; the Sonnets place in stylometric tests.]  Appendix A. [ELS decryption made simple.]  Appendix B. [Alternative grilles.]  Appendix C. [Proof by contradiction.]  Bibliography. References. Index.