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J. Madison Davis is currently the senior professor in the Professional Writing Program of the University of Oklahoma's H.H. Herbert School of Journalism

Œuvres de J. Madison Davis

Murderous Schemes (1996) — Consulting Editor — 58 exemplaires
The Van Gogh Conspiracy (2005) 16 exemplaires
The Shakespeare Name Dictionary (1995) 14 exemplaires
The Murder of Frau Schutz (1988) 7 exemplaires
Bloody Marko (1991) 4 exemplaires
White Rook (1990) 4 exemplaires
Dick Francis (1989) 3 exemplaires
And the Angels Sing (1996) 3 exemplaires
Critical Essays on Edward Albee (1986) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Stanisław Lem (1990) 2 exemplaires

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Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation (2005) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
Nevermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre (2015) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires

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The dictionary's contents indicate no understanding on the part of these authors of Edward, Earl of Oxford, as the true author of works under the pen-name, "William Shake-speare"; thus, it suffers fatally from a near-total lack of the people and places which were essential in the life of the real author.

The treatment here is confined to a purely superficial view: just what is largely obvious from a reading of the plays and poems themselves. But hardly anything of use beyond this.

One more example, among countless others, of the sorrow and the pity of failing to get the identity of the author correct.

Edward De Vere, the real author, is not even mentioned. Of his family, only Aubrey De Vere, the eldest son of John De Vere is mentioned--along with the facts that both Aubrey and his father, John, the 12th earl of Oxford, were executed at Tower Hill: Aubrey on 20 February, 1462 and John, six days later on 26 February. The title passed to John's second eldest son, also named John. John, the thirteenth earl, having no male heir at his death in March of 1513, the title next passed to yet another John De Vere, the second and at the time the only surviving son of Sir George (De) vere, the next eldest brother to the thirteenth earl. Because the fourteenth earl had no heir, the title passed to his second cousin, John De Vere, a great-grandson of Richard De Vere, the eleventh earl of Oxford. This John being Edward Oxford's grandfather and father to Edward's father, John De Vere, sixteenth earl of Oxford.

"Bassanio," a character from The Merchant of Venice, gets a mention but Amelia Bassano (later married to a Lanier or Lanyer), the most likely person to have been the real-life "Dark Lady of the Sonnets", gets none. Likewise for Alberico Gentili, John Florio, George Turberville or Angelo Sabino and Guido Morillon--all important in the life of Edward Oxford even if, as in the case of these latter two, Sabino and Morillon, they lived and died before Edward was born.

To have any reasonable hope of gaining a proper understanding of the author and the significance of his literary work, one has to be acquainted with the history of all these and many others, never mentioned in The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary (1995).
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proximity1 | Jun 29, 2019 |
Not a bad mystery, but I didn't buy the author's portrayal of Hitchcock. I don't know why because I don't know anything about him, but this seemed off. Nice psycho killer thriller set in 1950's LA.
 
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SomeGuyInVirginia | 1 autre critique | May 25, 2010 |
A must for all those who love R.D. He even makes a comment on my poor hometown dear dirty Detroit. He was born across the Detroit River in Thamesville, Ontario.
 
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Porius | Jul 26, 2009 |
I give a book 100 pages or one day, which ever comes second, before I make the decision to give up or keep reading. I finished this book only because it took me less than a day to read. Hitchcock is barely detectable in the book, hardly the detecive as the cover implies. He does the hiring of the ex-cop main character and "exposes" the murderer at the end but not much else. As to the title, the connection to the film is barely noticable other than it being the film that Hitch is directing at the time.… (plus d'informations)
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travelinlibrarian | 1 autre critique | Mar 28, 2006 |

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