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John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. [4] He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
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.
He was born at Worcester on 1 August 1555, [1] at 4 P.M. according to a horoscope that John Dee drew up (based on notes Dee kept in his almanac/diary). His sister Elizabeth was born in 1558, and he had a brother Thomas who later joined him in Dee's household. [3] However, much of Kelley's life before meeting John Dee is not known. [4]
The Brief Lives includes biographies of such figures as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, John Dee, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, John Ogilby, William Petty and William Shakespeare. There have been many modern editions.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (/ d ə ˈ v ɪər /; 12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604), was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.Oxford was heir to the second oldest earldom in the kingdom, a court favourite for a time, a sought-after patron of the arts, and noted by his contemporaries as a lyric poet and court playwright, but his volatile temperament precluded him from ...
Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore was convicted in 2012 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Lakeland lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare. She is seeking release or a new trial.
Shakespeare's restored house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, now open to the public as Shakespeare's Birthplace. John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was a glover and whittawer (leather worker) by trade.
John Schneider and Dee Dee Sorvino are now husband and wife, more than a year after losing their respective spouses. The "Dukes of Hazzard" star and television host exchanged vows Wednesday in a ...