THE SUITS OF WOE: OXFORD’S UNQUIET SOUL Preface I would like to mention that without the vision and relentless determination of Dan Wright, I wouldn’t be here, and neither would you. It is a long voyage to Ithaca Introduction “Tis not alone my inky cloak / good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black, / Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected havior of the visage, / Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief / That can denote me truly. These indeed seem, / For they are actions that a man might play; / But I have that within which passes show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.” (Hamlet, I.2.77-86) We are looking for “that within which passes show”, the soul of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, putative author of the Shakespeare canon. Click for the full text in PDF format Full 60 minute reading in MP3 format below (volume control included):
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