Line by Line Analysis: Was Shakespeare Actually Edward de Vere?

I've borrowed some lines for this video:

"I am not as I seem to be, / For when I smile I am not glad;" - Oxford poem, signed E. O. The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1576

"As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts." - Oberon, a Midsummer Night's Dream

"She hath the hand and knife, / That may both save and end my life." - XII. Love and Antagonism. Edward de Vere.

"The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb." - Suffolk, King Henry VI.

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[vetstadiumastroturf]

At this point, it's Oxfordians v. anti-Oxfordians.

[sarosch]

This is not a picture of the 17th Earl. If it is a picture of an Earl of Oxford it must be his father the 16th Earl since he's not young anymore and the clothes he's wearing date back to a much earlier period. We do have trustworthy images of the 17th Earl. (From Stephanie Hughes, de Vere historian)
De Vere is commonly believed to have red or auburn curly hair.

[hoagie]

Randomly in my recommenced but not bad

[Romalvx]

Really interesting and finally casting some light on such a debated subject!

[EndoftheTownProductions]

Shakespeare refers to the Gunpowder Plot in Macbeth. He mentions "equivocation" and "equivocator" and this refers to the Catholic Priest Henry Garnet who was associated with the plot. There are also other allusions to the plot in the play. The date of the Gunpowder Plot was November 5, 1605. Therefore, the play Macbeth must have been completed after this date and most likely finished in mid to late 1606. Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, died on June 24, 1604, which obviously makes it impossible for him to have written the play Macbeth which has been attributed to Shakespeare and later published in the 1623 First Folio. It is difficult to write a play after you have died and there is obviously no way for Edward to have known of the Gunpowder Plot and the trial of Henry Garnet before his death.