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Robert Boog

“My book: The Real-life Mystery of the Lost Years of William Shakespeare: solves the mysteries, myths, and mistakes of William Shakespeare.”

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Hi podcasters, my name is Robert Boog. When it comes to the authorship question of William Shakespeare, most of us were taught that a glover's son wrote the Shakespeare canon and that scholars for over 300 years have agreed. But what if we were never told the entire story?

I work as a real estate broker and noticed that the Birthplace Trust home is on Henley Street. It sits on a lot that is 90 feet wide. Tourists are told that William was born in this house in 1564.

Yet, when I went online and visited the www.shakespearedocumented.com website, I discovered that the only property John Shakespeare purchased prior to 1564 was a lot that spanned 30 -35 feet wide.

Did John Shakespeare build his house on a property that did not belong to him? I wanted to know but after doing a little more research I discovered that John Shakespeare had purchased the houses next door to his 30-foot wide lot in 1575. This was when William Shakespeare was eleven years old, so there is no way that William was born in the Birthplace Trust Home.

Why the cover-up? Probably because when I dug even deeper, I found that a sale between William Clopton and Rice Griffin showed John Shakespeare as a tenant of a 14-acre farm located about four miles away from Stratford upon Avon. This is probably the place where William was born, but if so, it would have been too far away for him to attend a grammar school. His parents were both illiterate, so who would have taught him how to read?

Plus, there is no record that proves he attended any school. Instead, we have six shaky signatures, but none of his signatures match. None of them correctly spell "Shakespeare".

Why couldn't he spell his last name correctly?

Why this Matters


We rely upon shortcuts - because they are time-savers.

But for shortcuts to work, they must be truth-based, even if the truth is not what we have been taught. Our knowledge of the world and world events is constantly expanding too. Some people will *cancel culture* that does not fit with their view of the world. Our view of Shakespeare might change if we are taught that the name Shakespeare was a pseudonym for someone connected closely with Queen Elizabeth., for example, an earl who once held the canopy above her head when she visited Scotland. He was one of her court favorites - until he started to act a bit weird, melancholic and eccentric.

This man, who was called "eccentric" and "melancholic" in his lifetime was Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford, and if we use push pins on a map of Italy for the Shakespeare plays that take place in Italy, guess what happens? They line up neatly with the places visited by the earl of Oxford in 1575.

Was Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Twain and thousands of other doubters right? Did Shakespeare from Stratford upon Avon NOT write the works of Shakespeare? What does this mean to the average person? Why is it important? Let's chat about something other than the war in Russia or the Corona virus.


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