Delphi Complete Works of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (Illustrated)

by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

2025 · Delphi Classics

An Elizabethan champion jouster, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a celebrated lyric poet and theatre patron, who became in the 20th century the strongest candidate (next to Shakespeare himself) for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. Contemporary critics praised Oxford’s skill as a poet, with several naming him as “the most excellent” of Elizabeth’s courtier poets. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Oxford’s complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford’s life and works * Concise introduction to Oxford’s life and poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Oxford’s rare Bedingfield letter * Features two bonus resource texts * Looney’s 1920 seminal book on Oxford, first attributing him as the original author of Shakespeare’s plays CONTENTS: The Life and Works of Edward de Vere Brief Introduction: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Complete Works of Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford The Letter The Bedingfield Letter The Resources Edward de Vere (1900) by Sidney Lee “Shakespeare” Identified (1920) by J. Thomas Looney

The Jacobean Grand Tour

by Edward Chaney, Timothy Wilks

2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing

Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent to a new generation of aristocratic explorers, enquirers and adventurers. This book examines the political and cultural significance of the encounters that resulted, focusing in particular on two of England's greatest, and newly united, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.