Monstrous Adversary —— The Life of Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

----- 怪异的对手：爱德华德维尔的生活，牛津大学的第17任伯爵

ISBN: 9780853236887 出版年：2003 页码：549 Liverpool University Press

The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford's life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare's works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford for over seventy years, "Monstrous Adversary" seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson's book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.