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Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Romeo, in the play Romeo and Juliet, is mentioned
for the first time in a question

  O, where is Romeo?

a question offering a pun

  O, Vere is Romeo!

a pun providing an answer

  de Vere, Oxford

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford who signed his early
works EO as in Romeo romEO, the pronounced English
initials E and O resembling Italian io meaning I, it's me.
The bard mentioned that his name is bound by one letter,
which is true for the name, the pun, and the answer

  Edward de Vere     E...e     12 letters  (name)

  O, Vere is Romeo     O...o     12 letters  (pun)

  de Vere, Oxford     d...d     12 letters  (answer)

whereby the binding letters of the name E and pun O
yield the initials of the title

  Earl of Oxford     12 letters  (title)

Name, pun, answer and title contain 12 letters each,
accordingly Juliet in the orchard is awaiting Romeo's
message at twelve.

On a veiled level of the play, Romeo would symbolize
the playwright who was bound to hold back his name
and conceal his authorship; Juliet would symbolize
the adoring audience, rapt public, and loving Muse
who make the poetical torch burn bright; and Paris,
who claimed Juliet for his wife, beautiful Juliet, more
beautiful than all other girls of Verona including lively
Helena - Paris would symbolize William Shakespeare
from Statford on Avon who might secretly have been
given a modest but lifelong pension for pretending
to be the author of those plays and poems, granted
by de Vere's relationship, out of whatever sad reason,
so that a personal tragedy would underly the tragic
love story of the play and make it only the deeper:

  For never was a story of more woe
  Than this of Juliet and Romeo.

The last lines end on oe and eo respectively, eo
EO Earl of Oxford, so the bard signed his play,
if ever so clandestinely, and although Juliet had
argued most reasonably and beautifully:

  What's a name! that which we call a rose
  By any other name would smell as sweet;
  So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
  Retain that dear perfection which he owns
  Without that title:--Romeo, doff thy name;
  And for that name, which is no part of thee,
  Take all myself.

The bard's name doesn't count, important are
his plays and poems, and the public loves them,
is all for him to take.

Franz Gnaedinger, Zuerich, February 28, 2010