Oxford and the King James Bible - Shakespeare Identified, Edward ...

about him. It is also consistent with the political currents of the time wherein Sir Robert Cecil wanted to keep
Oxford as far away from King James as possible. Second, it resolves the problems associated with The
Tempest. The play was not set on some Caribbean island as is commonly thought, even though there is nothing
in the physical description in the play that would lead one to believe this is an island in the southern latitudes.
It makes the claim that Oxford could not have written the play performed in 1611 because he died in 1604
irrelevant by supplying a later date for Oxford’s death and a plausible connection between the island in the
play and Isle of Mersea. The later date also gives Oxford sufficient time to write Shakes-peares Sonnets that
chronicles the last days of the Elizabethan reign.
Most importantly, the revised date gives the Earl of Oxford sufficient time to complete the King James
Bible and connects it with the works under the name, “William Shakespeare.”
Paul Streitz is the author of Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I.
1 Paul Hemenway Altrocchi, “It was not ‘Ye Plague’” Shakespeare Matters, Vol. 1, no. 4, Summer 2002.
2 Christopher Paul, “A Monument Without a Tomb: The Mystery of Oxford’s Death,” The Oxfordian, Vol. VII, October 2004.
3 Christopher Paul, “A Monument Without a Tomb: The Mystery of Oxford’s Death,” The Oxfordian, Vol. VII, October 2004, pg. 49.
4 John Barton, “Prospero’s Island,” The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, Vol. 39: No. 1., Winter 2003.
5 My thanks to Richard Kennedy, whose post on the Internet outlined the difficulties surrounding the authorship of the King James Bible.
6 H. Wheeler Robinson, ed., The Bible In Its Ancient and English Versions, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1940, pg 201.
7 Ibid., pg. 201.
8 Ibid., pg. 202.
9 Ibid., pg. 203.
10 Olga S. Opfell, The King James Bible Translators, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. & London, 1982, pg. 27.
11 Ibid., pg. 31.
12 Gustavus S. Paine, The Learned Men, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1959, pg. 119.
13 Olga S. Opfell, The King James Bible Translators, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. & London, 1982, pg. 111.
14 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, quoted in Olga S. Opfell, The King James Bible Translators, McFarland, Jefferson & London, 1982, pg. 119.
15 Olga S. Opfell, The King James Bible Translators, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. & London, 1982, pg. 131.
16 Mary Ellen Chase, The Bible and the Common Reader, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1944, pg. 42.
17 Frank J. Sulloway, Born to Rebel, Vintage Books, New York, 1997. pg. 18.
18 H. Wheeler Robinson, ed., The Bible In Its Ancient and English Versions, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1940, pg 204.
19 Gustavus S. Paine, The Learned Men, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1959, pg. 167.
20 H. Wheeler Robinson, ed., The Bible In Its Ancient and English Versions, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1940, pg. 219.
21 The Holy Bible, A Facsimile in a reduced size of the Authorized Version published in the year 1611 with an introduction by A.W. Pollard and
illustrative documents, Oxford, Printed at the University Press, London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, New York, 35
West 32 nd Street, 1911
22 Ibid., pg. 223.
23 Charles C. Butterworth, The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible, Octagon Books, New York, 1971, pg. 220.
24 Oxford’s Introduction to Bartholomew Clerke’s translation of The Courtier, in Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford Institute Press,
Darien, CT, 2001, pg., 183.
25 H. Wheeler Robinson, ed., The Bible In Its Ancient and English Versions, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1940, pg. 215.
26 Ibid., 1940, pg. 214.
27 Olga S. Opfell, The King James Bible Translators, McFarland, Jefferson , N.C. & London, 1982, pg. 18.
28 Roger Stritmatter, The marginalia of Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible: Providential Discovery, Literary Reasoning, and Historical
Consequence, Oxenford Press, Northampton, Mass., 2001.
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