Roger Stritmatter's research on the Geneva Bible purchased by de Vere in 1569 showed a startling correlation between the respective levels of interest in specific passages by de Vere and by Shakespeare. These allusions stand on their own, aside from the authorship debate, and they help enrich our understanding of Shakespeare' s multiple levels of meaning. (1) Even if the paper fails to convince you that this quark is relevant to the authorship question, the paper's second goal is to introduce you to my project of mining a new source of biblical allusions in Shakespeare's works. Sigmund Freud, who founded my profession of psychoanalysis, strongly favored de Vere as Shakespeare, and this paper proposes a humble quark of evidence for Freud's heretical opinion. Stratfordians sometimes say the theory that Edward de Vere wrote Shakespeare's works lacks a single molecule or even atom of supporting evidence.
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