MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: THE KILLING OF A UNIQUE GENIUS

Malice Aforethought is the story of murder-one—the premeditated, cold-blooded killing and obliteration of the name and life-story of the world's.
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The Stratford William never claimed to have written the Shakespeare plays and poems, nor as a good businessman did he ever seek to profit from the publication or performance of them. Doubts soon arose about this person being the author of the Shakespeare canon. Literary minds at the time began questioning how an unlettered businessman from a provincial market-town could have written all those erudite, amazing poems and plays. Mark Twain , in his last book, Is Shakespeare Dead? A schoolmaster in England who taught Shakespeare, J.

He studied an anthology of 16 th century poetry, searching for any poets who wrote poems in stanzas like those Shakespeare used in his first published work, Venus and Adonis. Looney found only one poem in the anthology written that way, by Edward de Vere, 17 th Earl of Oxford. Knowing nothing about this earl, Looney put together a list of 18 characteristics the great author would possess, whoever he might be.

One is that he would be a member of the higher aristocracy with Feudal connections. A king, emperor, prince, or duke is one of the main characters in 34 of 37 plays. Another characteristic is that he loved Italy. Shakespeare sets 13 of his plays in Italy. Edward de Vere toured Italy, spoke Italian, and lived for a time in Venice. The Stratford Shakespeare remained in England. Over the next 30 years Oxfordian researchers published 91 books on Edward de Vere, along with the first book-length biography, The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford by B.

Then their son, Carlton Ogburn, Jr. Supreme Court Justices, Harry A.

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Blackmun —on the bench , William J. Attorneys representing William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford were each given one hour to present their case. Following British court practice, each Justice in turn stated his position and reaction to the arguments heard on the case. In his comments on the case, Justice Stevens made this key point: The first silence is that William Shakespeare of Stratford had no library in his spacious home.

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His otherwise detailed will does not include any books, manuscripts, or writing materials; and 18 plays had not yet been published when he died. His daughter Susanna, questioned years later, said that her father kept no books in his house.

He never once mentions his father-in-law in it. The third silence is most telling. No one noticed or commented on his death. The Wall Street Journal published an article in titled: Oxfordian researcher and novelist James Warren has compiled a list of factors relevant to the authorship question. New Evidence of an Authorship Problem , advances 10 more, beginning with evidence of education. The Uncensored Truth about Shakespeare and his Works, a Book of Evidence and Explanation , identifies 21 plays written too early for the Stratford Shakespeare, born in , to have been the author.

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Other factors include known links to other writers and important people depicted in the plays. With no surviving manuscripts, Stratfordians have labored to ascertain when the Stratford Shakespeare wrote his plays. They must fit up to 40 plays into a year time frame, from starting at age 26 to the year he died. Stratfordians point especially to The Tempest , said to be inspired by the shipwreck of the Sea Venture that occurred near Bermuda in Since Thomas Looney identified the true Bard 97 years ago, scholars have published more than 6, articles and books on the Oxfordian theory of the Shakespeare authorship.

Steeped in a rigorous classical education and fluent in six languages, Edward de Vere was the Leonardo da Vinci of the English Renaissance. Like Leonardo, he was a polymath, an expert in many fields ranging from law, medicine, and astronomy to horsemanship and falconry. Contemporary authors dedicated some 33 books to him. He was the patron of two leading acting companies. Thy countenance shakes speares.

Thy splendid fame great Earl, demand the services of a poet possessing lofty eloquence. When Edward de Vere was born in there were no theaters in London. Latin was the language of law, medicine, and formal court life, written and spoken. Fifty year later, at the turn of the century, 10, people a week were attending plays in public theaters in London.

Edward de Vere turned English into a literary language, inventing thousands of new words. The first English dictionary was published in Why do historians of the Elizabethan era ignore him?


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Proving that Oxford is Shakespeare is not enough. Elizabeth made Cecil a Baron, and he became one of the richest, if not the richest, men in England, if not the richest, with estates and properties listed in his will.

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He had 80 servants in his London residence and one of the largest libraries in Europe, containing 1, books and manuscripts. William Cecil was born with a cleft lip, and likely a cleft palate as well. But some, like Cecil, do the opposite and display aggressive behavior. As observers have noted, a deformity can be an advantage to a statesman, rendering him industrious and bold, and apt to turn the weaknesses and faults of others into opportunities for retribution. His son Robert had an even more disfiguring condition.

He was a hunchback. Only 5 feet 2 inches tall, the same height as Napoleon, Robert Cecil attained even more power than his father. Paul Altrocchi puts it in his book Malice Aforethought: The Killing of a Unique Genius. The two Cecils, William and Robert, were so powerful and convincing that the historical truth about the murder of a unique genius—his name and the chronicle of his fascinating life—has been successfully squelched, malignantly distorted and covered up for more than years.

There is no reference to Richard having any deformities in a much earlier version of the play, The True Tragedy of Richard III , that de Vere wrote when he was a teenager. Richard III was buried in a friary church in Leicester in In , archeologists located and removed his skeleton at the site of the long-gone church, now underneath the pavement of a car park.

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A CT scan-3D reconstruction of the spine showed only scoliosis. Richard was not a hunchback. Properly clothed, he would have looked normal. They do not sound like anything the leading earl of the realm with a year history dating from the Norman Conquest would pen to a young nobleman. I read your story and found some very interesting points in it. I believe he still maintains O'Hare is guilty of those crimes. I have learned a great deal about the Joan Webster murder as well.

This case has been extraordinary, equally as challenging as the Zodiac. I have not studied the Zodiac cases so I am not qualified to speculate about Penn as the offender himself. I do know Joan's case and he was not responsible for her death. Neither O'Hare nor Paradiso murdered Joan, either. Burke's publication, The Paradiso Files, is false and continues to obstruct the truth.

The authorities are also part of the problem and the case needs public awareness for transparency, and an independent investigation. The information in regards to Gareth Penn having an affair with the niece of the witness who found the bodies on Lake Herman Road is simply stunning. This new evidence shows that Penn does have a proven social connection to a Zodiac victim, David Faraday, through the niece that he dated, since she went to high school with Faraday. Keep up the good work. Aren't some people in the belief that Penn himself was involved with Zodiac?

This was a very interesting article, thank you very much! Martin, You are a bottomless pit of substance-less cavils. Either you are incredibly dense, or you are up to something so devious I can't fathom it. And I don't care to. The kindest thing I can think of to say about you is that you're a time waster, and as long as it's your time that is getting wasted, I don't care.

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I have better things to do with mine. Your lies swarm around you like flies around a pile of shit, which is one reason why I will never have anything to do with you again. It is easier to construct a plausible psychological profile of Gareth Penn as a serial killer than it is for Penn to stretch a gnat's ass over a rain barrel to implicate Michael O'Hare.

Congrats to Mike Martin! He has hit a home run. What we single's hitters have tried to do over the past three years, Mike has done it in his article. He has brought it all together. His thorough investigation has put it all together. Mike never accuses, but states facts and let's the readers draw conclusions. The reason Penn writes so passionately and mono-maniacally about a murderous conspiracy is that he grew up in one of most perniciously conspiratorial milieus imaginable.

Little murders were going on all the time around him. Being smart, he was watchful, and learned to be suspicious of people's motives. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and am very impressed with the level of research that obviously went into it. The "Kafka-esque coincidences" in the story are absolutely fascinating, as are the other multiple examples of "more than just strange" coincidences found in the lives of both Penn and O'Hare.

This article proves otherwise. Gareth Penn, because of his paranoid narcissism, is difficult to like. He is the only worthy inhabitant of his egocentric world.

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But in his mind, that's plenty of company. He's quite a study. Penn and O'Hare are in this together.