Parallels With The Plays
Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. Despite this, Oxfordians list numerous incidents in Oxford's life that they say parallel those in many of the Shakespeare plays. Most notable among these, they say, are certain similar incidents found in Oxford's biography and Hamlet, and Henry IV, Part 1, which includes a well-known robbery scene with uncanny parallels to a real-life incident involving Oxford.
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