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By Hank Whittemore

ISBN-10: 0966556453

ISBN-13: 9780966556452

Hank Whittemore units forth his accomplished theory
to clarify SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, the 154 consecutively numbered poems printed
in 1609. The Monument Theory supports the speculation that the Sonnets have been written by
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford to maintain for posterity "the living
record" of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton as his son via Queen
Elizabeth and her rightful inheritor as King Henry IX of England.

The middle of the speculation is that Oxford's "monument" of verse
contains a "century" of a hundred sonnets on the center. It starts with Sonnet 27 at the evening of eight February
1601, whilst Southampton was once arrested as a traitor deserving execution for co-leading the failed Essex uprising; and the 100-verse centerpiece ends with Sonnet 126, instantly following the funeral of Elizabeth on 28 April 1603, while her
Tudor dynasty formally ended.

The Monument idea holds that Oxford is writing to and
about Southampton as a father to his son who's additionally an unacknowledged royal prince. The "century" of Sonnets starts while Southampton has misplaced any real looking desire of gaining the crown; Oxford
is recording his determined try to save Henry Wriothesley's life and achieve the promise
of his final release. To that finish he enters
into a discount with the robust Secretary Robert Cecil, agreeing to sever
all ties to his royal son -- who needs to never claim the throne -- and to paintings in the back of the
scenes aiding Cecil engineer the succession of James VI of Scotland as
King James I of England.

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