Additional Evidence for Edward de Vere's Authorship of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Hyde contributes new evidence that complements existing scholarship on the authorship of Troilus and Cressida-this includes Elizabethan theater productions, medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales, and Oxford's use of the family motto in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and his clever grammatical comparisons of truth are apparent to those who recognize the intricate interweaving of the Edward de Vere motto in these lines. The play's text after the bedroom scene then demonstrates the use of echolalia as a literary device, as the truth of Troilus is dramatically and ironically undercut by the falsity of Cressida. While Samuel Johnson may have tired of the incessant punning and quibbles of Shakespeare's dialogues, the true-truer-truest truth of Troilus repeatedly and successfully hammers home that his constancy is doomed to fail and that he will soon lose false Cressida.