[Burkeman1]

As to Shakespeare being the Earl of Oxford:

http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/

[nickcarraway]

Can't you explain why you believe Edward de Vere wrote Shakespeare's play? Look at the web site, it's an amusing parlor came, but there isn't any substantial evidence. Like some people discuss arcane baseball statistics, some people come up with interesting theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. It would be just as easy to argue Queen Elizabeth I herself wrote those plays and poems. And at it's heart, it's based on a very unconservative premise.