Publications Looney, J. Thomas. "Shakespeare" identified in Edward De Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford. London: C. Palmer, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. (1920) Looney, J. Thomas, ed. The poems of Edward De Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford. London: C. Palmer (1921) References Bibliography Jonathan Bate, "The genius of Shakespeare", Oxford University Press US, 1998, , p. 68 William F. and Elizabeth S. Friedman, "The Shakspearean Ciphers Examined", Cambridge University Press, 1957, p. 7 Russ McDonald, "Shakespeare: an anthology of criticism and theory, 1945–2000", Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, , pp. 4–8 Samuel Schoenbaum, "Shakespeare's lives", Clarendon Press, 1970, pp. 597–598 Richard F. Whalen, "Shakespeare – who was he?: the Oxford challenge to the Bard of Avon", Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, , pp. 68–69 Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Atlas Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Press, 2007, , pp. 188–191 External links Toronto Star review of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Alumni of the University of Chester English writers Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship 1870 births 1944 deaths People from South Shields Shakespeare authorship theorists Fringe theories