Subsequent research into Neville’s life (by Brenda James between 2001 - 2005) proved that his background, education, knowledge and experience match those specific qualities reflected in the plays. Neville even names himself (covertly) in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Sir Henry’s birth and death dates (1564 - 1615) are virtually identical to those of his pseudonymic front-man, William Shakespeare. THUS, WITH SIR HENRY NEVILLE, THERE IS NO IMPLAUSIBLE MIS-MATCH WHEN IT COMES TO DATING THE PLAYS AND NO IMPLAUSIBLE STRETCHING OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE SPAN, ETC.
The chronology of the plays coincides with the emergence of Neville’s life events
Henry Neville was born, and spent his early life, in Blackfriars. His father was connected with the setting up of the Blackfriars Theatre under Richard Farrant.
Sir Henry had many reasons to hide his identity - his political work, family inheritance, even his life, would have been endangered, had he been discovered. So Neville never published anything under his own name; yet he was sought out by his contemporaries - including Beaumont and Fletcher and King James I - for advice on their own writing. Neville must therefore have been a ‘concealed’ writer.
Neville’s language in letters and dispatches correlates with that of Shakespeare (as detailed in Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code by Brenda James, 2008.)
The total weight of evidence, together with its mutually supportive nature, already add up to the most logical Shakespeare Authorship solution. Ongoing research is continuing to re-affirm the findings, in addition to making further discoveries.
A Tiny Selection from the many specific points of Evidence:
The chances of an author named in the Code matching up with ‘Shakespeare’ in every respect when researched are very small indeed, unless Neville’s identity is the true one!
Neville was a well-connected politician, and a close friend of Southampton (dedicatee of The Sonnets). Additionally, the Shakespeares tried to prove a connection between William’s mother, Mary Arden, and the Ardens of Park Hall (Warwickshire), to whom Sir Henry was related by marriage. Neville’s grandfather owned the house in which Mary Arden was born.
Neville had access to restricted sources witnessed in the plays: e.g. the documents of his Plantagenet and other ancestors including John of Gaunt in Richard II, Warwick the King Maker in Henry VI parts II & III, and King Duncan of Scotland in Macbeth. As an officer in the Virginia Company, he was able to use a private letter as a source for The Tempest.
Neville was multi-lingual, (some sources used for the plays were only available in French/Italian/Greek/Spanish etc, which we have no reason to believe Shakespeare knew.)
Neville became French Ambassador at just the time the French-based Henry V was written.
1601 marks an abrupt change in the plays from histories/comedies to the great tragedies. In 1601Neville was in the Tower - under threat of execution for his part in the Essex Uprising.
The Northumberland Manuscript, discovered in 1867, has Neville’s name and ‘family motto poem’ at the top, plus repeated practising of William Shakespeare's signature lower down.
My research uncovered some ‘lost’ documents, including one he wrote in theTower of London (1601-1603). Its contents tie in with the plays, including passages later used in Henry VIII,but the notes had been written by Neville eleven years before that play was performed.
Among other documents I traced were copies of Leicester's Commonwealth, now in the Lincolnshire Archives but previously of unattributed ownership. I managed to show that these copies were owned by Neville, and indeed only discovered them by tracing the later movements of his descendants and the documents they possessed.The Commonwealth was a banned manuscript at the time, but Henry Neville had annotated these manuscript copies in such a way as to show them as a source for the 'Shakespeare' History Plays. [Please see The Truth Will Out and Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code for further details.] More contextual details concerning these manuscripts are also contained in my third book, which will hopefully be out by July, 2010.
In 1623, the writer Ben Jonson was involved in putting Shakespeare's name on the First Folio edition of the Plays. Jonson was then employed by a college in London associated with the Neville family. Brenda James has now discovered that a play by Jonson suggests (symbolically) that he knew about the 'front man' arrangement and that he helped promote the fiction of Shakespeare's authorship at the behest of the Nevilles. {See Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code}
The character Falstaff was partly based on Neville himself. Falstaff was initially going to be called 'Oldcastle', an antonymic pun on Neville's (‘New Town’ or ‘New Villa’) name.
Neville was an international trader: this is reflected in The Merchant of Venice and The Comedy of Errors. Neville resided on the Continent (1578 - 1583). Brenda’s recent research proves that he had overwhelming reasons, during those years, to visit the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, and Elsinore (Denmark) in pursuit of his newly-inherited iron and ordnance business.
‘Steel’ is mentioned 74 times in the works; ‘iron’ 48 times; ‘cannons’, and ‘ordnance’ 30 times. The name ‘Touchstone’ (As You Like It ) is metallurgical too. Other such specialised terms - e.g. ‘dross’, ‘unaneal’d’ - are also present. Neville is the only person to combine this knowledge with all other ‘Shakespearean’ attributes. He was an aristocrat/merchant hybrid by ancestry: his father was a ‘royal’ Neville and his mother a ‘merchant’ Gresham.
Neville was the first Englishman to receive forward knowledge about the Count Orsino and his possible visit to the English Court. Only he had time to write Orsino into Twelfth Night.
Neville - unusually for his time - majored in Astronomy at Oxford. Knowledge of Astronomy is present in some of the plays. The Copernican concept of ‘infinite space’ (mentioned in Hamlet) was totally unknown outside of specialised circles in England at the time. Ongoing research continues. Prominent names have now endorsed the work, others have joined in the research, and the first edition of The Journal of Neville Studies has now been published. Book 3 to follow soon.
LOGICALLY AND TOPOLOGICALLY, NEVILLE IS THE FOREMOST SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP CANDIDATE
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