I’d like to share the way in which the various elements have been organized for 100 Reasons Shake-speare was the Earl of Oxford:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: A MAN OF THE THEATRE
Reason 1 – The Patron-Playwright
Reason 2 – The Allowed Fool
Reason 3 – The Director-Actor
Reason 4 – Performance in the Tiltyard
CHAPTER TWO: HAMLET AND OXFORD
Reason 5 – Plays for the Court
Reason 6 – “Lights! Lights! Lights!”
Reason 7 – “The Courtier”
Reason 8 – “Hamlet’s Book” (Cardanus’ Comforte)
Reason 9 – The Polonius-Hamlet Family
Reason 10 – “These Few Precepts”
Reason 11 – “The Pirates”
Reason 12 – “The Kingdom of the Mind”
Reason 13 – “Hamlet’s Castle”
Reason 14 – “Beowulf” and Hamlet
CHAPTER THREE: FOOTPRINTS
Reason 15 – The Earl of Surrey
Reason 16 – Arthur Golding
Reason 17 – “Romeus and Juliet”
Reason 18 – Richard Edwards
Reason 19 – Oxford’s Geneva Bible
Reason 20 – The Gad’s Hill Caper
CHAPTER FOUR: OXFORD THE WRITER
Reason 21 – Youthful Verse
Reason 22 – “Love Thy Choice”
Reason 23 – Hawks and Women
Reason 24 – “New Glory of Language” (Re: Castiglione)
Reason 25 – A Public Letter (Re: Cardanus’ Comforte)
Reason 26 – Private Letters
CHAPTER FIVE: TRIBUTES AND ALLUSIONS
Reason 27 – Gabriel Harvey
Reason 28 – “A Pleasant Conceit of Vere”
Reason 29 – “The Art of Poetry”
Reason 30 – “Our Pleasant Willy”
Reason 31 – “One Whose Power Floweth Far”
Reason 32 – “Our De Vere”
CHAPTER SIX: THE UNIVERSITY WITS
Reason 33 – Shakespeare’s “Predecessors”
Reason 34 – John Lyly
Reason 35 – Antony Munday
Reason 36 – Thomas Watson
Reason 37 – A Diversity of Dedications
Reason 38 – A Depth of Dedications
CHAPTER SEVEN: WRITERS IN WARTIME
Reason 39 – The College of Writers
Reason 40 – “The Famous Victories”
Reason 41 – “The Policy of Plays”
Reason 42 – The Queen’s Men
Reason 43 – The 1,000-Pound Grant
Reason 44 – The Tilbury Speech
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE ITALIAN CONNECTION
Reason 45 – Shakespeare in Love … With Italy
Reason 46 – “Commedia dell’arte”
Reason 47 – Titian of Venice
Reason 48 – Portia’s House
CHAPTER NINE: THE MIGHTY LINE
Reason 49 – Christopher Marlowe
CHAPTER TEN: OXFORD AND ELIZABETH
Reason 50 – Oxford in the Plays
Reason 51 – Elizabeth in the Plays
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE SONNETS
Reason 52 – Oxford in the Sonnets
Reason 53 – Oxford and Southampton
CHAPTER TWELVE: SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE
Reason 54 – The French Connection
Reason 55 – The Greek Connection
Reason 56 – Legal Knowledge
Reason 57 – Knowledge of Power
Reason 58 – Military Knowledge
Reason 59 – Medical Knowledge
Reason 60 – The Sea and Seamanship
Reason 61 – “Methinks I Have Astronomy”
Reason 62 – Knowledge of Music
Reason 63 – Horses and Horsemanship
Reason 64 – Knowledge of Heraldry
Reason 65 – Gardens and Gardening
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE FRENCH MATCH
Reason 66 – “Monsieur”
Reason 67 – Bottom’s Dream
Reason 68 – “The Two Gentlemen”
Reason 69 – Portia’s Suitors
Reason 70 – Philip Sidney
Reason 71 – “Cymbeline”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ASPECTS OF PLAYS
Reason 72 – “King John”
Reason 73 – Bertram and Oxford
Reason 74 – Suspicion and Jealousy
Reason 75 – The Bed Trick
Reason 76 – “Timon of Athens”
Reason 77 – Campion and “Twelfth Night”
Reason 78 – “The Winter’s Tale”
Reason 79 – “Troilus and Cressida”
Reason 80 – “Macbeth”
Reason 81 – “The Tempest”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: FINGERPRINTS
Reason 82 – The Echo
Reason 83 – The Northwest Passage
Reason 84 – “Ever or Never”
Reason 85 – “Truth’s Authentic Author”
Reason 86 – “I Am That I Am”
Reason 87 – “The Quality of Mercy”
Reason 88 – “You Are Not Ipse”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: FINAL STAGES
Reason 89 – “Best for Comedy”
Reason 90 – The New Clown
Reason 91 – Dramatic Literature
Reason 92 – Printers and Publishers
Reason 93 – The “Shrew” Plays
Reason 94 – A Pivotal Year: 1604
Reason 95 – “Minerva Britanna”: 1612
Reason 96 – George Chapman: 1612
Reason 97 – The Two Henries: 1619
Reason 98 – “The Compleat Gentleman”: 1622
Reason 99 – Daughters and Dedications
Reason 100 – “The Record of a Wasted Genius”
POSTSCRIPT – A Man and His Life
ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
A mighty list of reasons and I am so much looking forward to read the book. I ordered it a month ago, but since I live in Sweden (aka Far-far-Away) I have to be patient another couple of days, at least.
All the best,
Mikael Kjellgren, Gothenburg.
Thanks, Mikael! Best wishes and keep in touch!