The Letters of Edward de Vere

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following for their contributions: Sir Derek Jacobi (Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford), Joan Walker (Narrator), John Foley (Lord Burghley), Emily Daler (Ann Vavasor), Sarah Clive (Anne Cecil), Charles Armstrong (Sir Walter Raleigh), Gordon Griffin (Roger Manners and Percival Golding), Peter Kenny (Sir Thomas Smith and Bussy D’Ambois), Bridget Cunningham (harpsichordist), The Fulham and Hammersmith Choral Society, Christopher Bracewell (conductor), Jackie Bernard, Irune Abando, Serena Wilson, Natalie Keane, Penny Badger, Margaret Harvey, Ali Cunningham (Sopranos), Alison Braidwood, Yoko Harada, Anne Newman, Claire Longworth (Altos), Jack Piper, Stephen Hainsworth, Chris Harman, Ralph Cunningham (Tenors), Marios Papadakis, Steve Buchanan, Rohan deSouza (Basses).

Oxford’s Letters was recorded at EFS Motivation Sound Studios & by the Gloria/Magnificat Recording Company.

William Plumer Fowler’s transcriptions of Oxford’s letters were borrowed from his book Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford’s Letters (published 1986 by Peter Randall), with a few quotations from The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford by B.M. Ward (1929) and from Monstrous Adversary by Alan H. Nelson (2003).

Permissions

Cover: Vertue engraving of “Shakespeare” courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library; image of Oxford’s 1604 letter courtesy of the Essex Record Office; use of the texts of certain of Oxford’s letters, courtesy of the British Library, the Public Record Office and Hatfield House Library.