Derek Jacobi and Margo Anderson on how local lore and biographical specificity found in the comedy point to the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, as its writer Michael Billington says Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor offers clues to the Bard's identity (Need proof who wrote Shakespeare's plays? See The Merry Wives of Windsor, 20 May). "It could only have been written by someone who understo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PM on June 13, 2024