Some might consider Shakespeare authorship heretics (sometimes called “anti‐Stratfordians”) to be enemies of the author Shakespeare. However, as a Shakespeare authorship dissident myself, I will offer a different and possibly counterintuitive perspective on the topic of “Shakespeare's Enemies.” Namely, that it is mainstream Shakespeare scholars who inadvertently undermine our understanding of the author Shakespeare and prevent us from making vital connections between the works and their true author. They are not enemies of the works of Shakespeare, of course, but unintentional “enemies” of our search for the truth about the author of those works. A core unexamined assumption of the traditional theory is that early references to “Shakespeare” were indisputably references to Shakespeare of Stratford, despite recent scholarship that demonstrates his Elizabethan era was a golden age of pen names and other forms of anonymous authorship. Circular thinking and other manifestations of groupthink follow in the wake of this foundational assumption. I will summarize some of the abundant evidence pointing to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as the actual author of the Shakespeare canon.

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友好之火：莎士比亚的偶然敌人，莎士比亚著作权争议的回顾

有些人可能认为莎士比亚作家身份的异端（有时被称为“反斯特拉福主义者”）是莎士比亚作家的敌人。但是，作为莎士比亚作家身份的异见者，我将对“莎士比亚的敌人”这一话题提出不同的看法，并且可能会违反直觉。就是说，正是莎士比亚的主流学者无意间破坏了我们对莎士比亚的理解，并阻止了我们在作品及其真正作者之间建立重要的联系。他们不是作品的敌人当然，这是莎士比亚的作品，但这是我们在寻找有关这些作品的作者的真相时的无意的“敌人”。传统理论的一个未经审查的核心假设是，尽管最近的研究表明他的伊丽莎白女王时代是笔名和其他形式的匿名作者的黄金时代，但对“莎士比亚”的早期提及无疑是斯特拉特福的莎士比亚。在这一基本假设之后，出现了循环思维和集体思维的其他表现形式。我将总结一些充分的证据，指出牛津大学伯爵爱德华·德·维尔（Edward de Vere）是莎士比亚经典著作的实际作者。