Henry 5

Henry 5 events of 1586

Fluellen represents Sir Roger Williams of Monmouthshire,
Ireland represents Holland
Allusions to the Babington plot
Authorship of the play is questionable, only 2 speeches of any length would be claimed for Shakespeare.

1 Henry 6

1 Henry 6

dated to 1587 due to historical references to the execution of Mary Stuart (Joan of Arc), eight days before the funeral of Philip Sidney(funeral of Henry5), and the peace negotiations between England and Spain. "Internal evidence is corroborated by events in the life of the Earl of Oxford in 1587, events which show that he could not have given more than slight attention to the production of the play.

Macbeth

Macbeth 1588-1589

Macbeth is Henry 3 (Valois)
on Dec.23, 1588 the Duc de Guise was assassinated.
Catherine de Medici is Lady Macbeth
Banquo is Henry 4 (Bourbon)
Play was rewritten after 1603 in compliment to James Stuart
Details were changed from the chronicles to reflect what happened in France.
Witchcraft trials were currently happening in Essex.
Porter is an allusion to the earl of Leicester while he was still alive, which is probably how ETC arrived at the date for this play.

King Lear

King Lear 1589

Albany represents Margaret Tudor’s line
France represents Mary Tudor’s line
Cornwall is Elizabeth
Edmund is Henry Howard
Edgar is Oxford
Kent is Drake, who was exactly 45 years old in 1589

Other Oxfordians claim the Play was written later and Lear is Oxford, hence the name change from Leir, and the 3 daughters represent his 3 daughters, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, Susan, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery, and Bridget, Countess of Berkshire.

Unless otherwise mentioned, all dates in these posts about the plays are Eva Turner Clark's, from her "Hidden Allusions".

Letter From 17th Earl of Oxford to Sir Robert Cecil

Excerpt from 1603:


I cannot but find great grief in myself to remember the Mistress which we have lost, under whom both you and myself from our greenest years have been in a manner brought up; and although it hath pleased God after an earthly kingdom to take her up into a more permanent and heavenly state, wherein I do not doubt but she is crowned with glory... yet the long time which we spent in her service, we cannot look for so much left of our days as to bestow upon another, neither the long aquaintance and kind familiarities wherewith she did use us, we are not ever to expect from another Prince as denied by the infirmity of age and common course of reason. In this common shipwreck, mine is above all the rest, who least regarded though often comforted of all her followers, she hath left to try my fortune among the alterations of time and chance, either without sail to take the advantage of any prosperous gale, or with anchor to ride till the storm be overpast.

Sounds like Shake-speare to me!