Edward De Veere's Influence On William Shakespeare

Although, it is unclear how Shakespeare’s career in theatre got started, there is proof that in roughly 1594 he became a member of King Chamberlain’s Men (who later changed their name to the King’s Men), an acting company who produced many of Shakespeare’s plays. Several years after he died in 1616, collegues of Shakespeare, John Heminge and Henry Condell, assembled a collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, and in 1623 appeared as Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Heminge and Condell, as well as contemporaries Ben Jonson and Leonard Digges, make testimonies to Shakespeare and his writings. Indeed, little documentary evidence has been found to support the idea that Shakespeare was a writer, there is additionally

Edward de Vere was known as a poet and playwright, so Oxfordian theorist believe that he possessed the classical education and knowledge of the law, music, Italian culture and aristocratic familiarity that Shakespeare did not. Furthermore, Shakespeare’s plays reference to Edward de Vere’s court career and it is believed that Hamlet is his own self portrait. Even famous writer, Sigmund Freud, supports the idea that Edward de Vere is the man behind Shakespeare’s works. He believes that no writer can completely avoid reveal personal insight of himself in his writings and also believes that de Vere portrays himself through Hamlet. This belief is supported by other writers such as Virginia Woolf, Gustav Flaubert, and Edward Albee. Likewise, Stratfordians recognize Hamlet as an extremely autobiographical character, which the author seems to reveal himself, but are perplexed by the lack of similarity between the man from Stratford and Hamlet. Connecting the pseudonym Shakespeare to de Vere, de Vere was known at court as “shake-spear” because of his skill at tournaments and