Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere,_17th_Earl_of_Oxford" class="extiw" title="w:Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford">Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford</a> (1550-1604). One of the possible authors of Shakespeare's works.
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17th century (based on a lost original work of 1575)
<i>Searching for Shakespeare</i>, Tarnya Cooper, Yale University Press, 2006