Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Washington State University
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Studying available images of Queen Elizabeth and her wardrobe; images likely to be of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Elizabethan fashion and court history; Lord Burghley's Theobalds house; and more, artist and 2004 Shakespeare student Melissa Deckman of Washington State University painted the piece shown on the front page of this site. Here is the artist at work.
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This Hilliard image shows an "unidentified man" from the Elizabethan court in 1588. There are several reasons to suspect that it's Oxford. In any case, this "Shake-speare," or any one of the suspected images of de Vere, is a far cry from the bloated bald Stratford monument Shakespeare, or the "Can-You-Name-Seven-Things-Wrong-With-This-Image?" Droeshout engraving in the First Folio. Shake-speare was hot! No wonder old-guard Senior Professors cling to the Stratford myth; that guy looks more like them.
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