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William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, KG (1561 – 29 September 1642) was an English nobleman and politician. Stanley inherited a prominent social position that was both dangerous and unstable, as his mother was heir to Queen Elizabeth I under the Third Succession Act , a position inherited in 1596 by his deceased brother's oldest ...
William Stanley, 6th earl of Derby (born 1561, London, Eng.—died Sept. 25, 1642, Lathom House, Lancashire) was an English writer and patron of the theatre who has been offered by some theorists as the true author of the plays of William Shakespeare. He succeeded his elder brother, Ferdinando, as the earl of Derby in 1594.
28 de oct. de 2022 · William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561 – 29 September 1642) was an English nobleman. He was a son of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby and Lady Margaret Clifford. His mother was heiress presumptive of Elizabeth I of England from 1578 to her own death in 1596.
31 de ene. de 2024 · Dates: 1561–1642. Who Wrote Shakespeare. Jan 31, 2024. Background: William Stanley was the second son of Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of Derby, and his wife, Margaret Clifford, great-granddaughter of Henry 7; Margaret was in line to succeed Queen Elizabeth.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby . Dates: 1561 – 1642 Background: William Stanley was the second son of Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of Derby, and his wife, Margaret Clifford, great-granddaughter of Henry 7; Margaret was in line to succeed Queen Elizabeth.
The Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship is the view that William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), was the true author of the works of William Shakespeare. Derby is one of several individuals who have been claimed by advocates of the Shakespeare authorship question to be the true author of Shakespeare's works.
As these detractors went on a historical hunt for a more likely hunt, an archivist named James H. Greenstreet nominated William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, as the real Shakespeare in 1891. He had found a letter wherein a Jesuit spy reported that Derby was “busied only in penning comedies for the common players,” a detail that he seized upon as proof that he was the true Shakespeare.
