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One more message, for Melanie Sands who bravely
defends her beloved William Shakespeare

Paris, in the play Romeo and Juliet, is introduced as

  valiant Paris

offering the alliteration

  valiant William

William Shakespeare, director of the Globe and main
actor

  a flower; in faith, a real flower

In sonnet 83, addressing the Muse, Edward de Vere
speaks of

  both your poets

placing the actor on the same level as the playwright,
for both are making the play, in the sense of Greek
poieo poiesis poietes. From "valiant Paris" read as
valiant William we may infer that William Shakespeare
was a congenial director and actor, easily adopting
the plays and acting out all intentions. He also may have
stood the ground and ensured the performances under
the pressure mentioned in sonnet 66

  And Art made tongue-tied by authority

while other directors yielded to the pressure, consider
Peter Quince in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream,
the shape of the fruit evoked by his name suggesting
puffed cheeks and a small brain. Quince's actor Bottom,
in order not to freighten the ladies of the court among
the audience, and risking that all the actors be hung,
proposes to make his lion roar like a nightingale -
taking all strentgth out of the play, that is. Happened
also to de Vere's plays, but not when valiant William
was around. Paris, the prince of Troy, was rather
a coward, or, one may say, he understood how to keep
out of trouble, which may be a further characterization
of William Shakespeare - valiant by being gentle

  good gentle youth

  By heaven, I love thee better than myself

The cooperation between the two congenial collaborators
was far from being free of conflicts, however, the bard
confesses his sin - whatever the reason was that obliged
him to keep silent about his authorship in the plays -, and
de Vere solved the conflict in the way of the mild, gentle
and sly Ulysses in his poem Lucrece (as explained earlier).
The final and fatal conflict of the play must be a metaphor
on the rivalry between playwright and actor, won in the
end by the former whose lines live on while the equally
ingenious performing is forgotten when the actor passed
away. Paris provokes Romeo, this one shows him,
Paris dies, and Romeo exclaims

  Noble County Paris!

the Earl of Oxford elevating William Shakespeare of
humble origin into the rank of an earl or count

  I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave

namely in his work - the bard honors the actor, telling
us that valiant William, a real flower, a gentle youth,
his equal as poet in the original sense of the Greek
word, contributed as much to their common work as
he did himself, so that a next edition of the plays may
justly be called: The Complete Works of Edward de Vere
and William Shakespeare ... While conceiving and writing
a play, Edward de Vere may have had William on his
mind, and thus the play wrote itself on its own, carried,
and carried far, by the spirit of the young collaborator,
so that also William Shakespeare is present in the
written form of the plays, way beyond his playacting.
And Juliet? She symbolizes the audience that also
contributed to the plays, in the way explained earlier.
She is first mentioned in a call

  What, Juliet!

offering another pun

  Watch, Juliet!

Watching a play is what an audience does - listen and
watch.