) May calls Oxford's 16 canonical poems the ' output of a competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse.

This secret drama, which has become known as the Prince Tudor theory, was covertly represented in Oxford's plays and poems and remained hidden until Allen and Ward's discoveries.

However, unlike the cited examples, a number of Oxford's poems did appear in printed miscellanies in his lifetime, and the first poem published under Oxford's name was printed in 1572, 17 years before Puttenham's book was published.

Early Oxfordians found many references to Oxford's family name " Vere " in the plays and poems, in supposed puns on words such as " ever " ( E. Vere ).

Appointed in 1868, Price had already recommended to the university that the Press needed an efficient executive officer to exercise " vigilant superintendence " of the business, including its dealings with Alexander Macmillan, who became the publisher for Oxford's printing in 1863 and in 1866 helped Price to create the Clarendon Press series of cheap, elementary schoolbooks – perhaps the first time that Oxford used the Clarendon imprint.

It is thought that the King had great plans to create a college to rival Oxford's Christ Church with great new architecture, but he died a few weeks after the college was created.

Cambridge gained revenge in 2004 in a race marred by dramatic clashes of oars in the early stages, and the unseating of Oxford's bowman.

Promotion back to the Football League was achieved via the playoffs in 2009 – 10, during which Oxford's average attendance enjoyed a dramatic rise and narrowly exceeded the 6, 000 mark.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

Cecil was displeased with the arrangement, given his daughter's age compared to Oxford's, and had entertained the idea of her marrying the Earl of Rutland instead.

In February 1577, it was rumoured that Oxford's sister Mary would marry Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ( 1559 – 1580 ), but by 2 July, she was linked with Peregrine Bertie, later Lord Willoughby d ' Eresby.

In the summer of 1580, Gabriel Harvey, apparently motivated by a desire to ingratiate himself with Leicester, satirized Oxford's love for things Italian in verses entitled Speculum Tuscanismi in Three Proper and Witty Familiar Letters.

Arundel refused Oxford's offer, and he and Howard initially sought asylum with Mendoza.

Oxford complained that his servant Thomas Hampton had taken advantage of these writs by taking money from the tenants to his own use, and had also conspired with another of Oxford's servants to pass a fraudulent document under the Great Seal of England.

As with all his other suits aimed at improving his financial situation, this last of Oxford's suits to the Queen ended in disappointment.

( However, Oxford's patronage pales when compared to other peers of the era, such as the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with 110 dedications, mostly literary.

Higher-quality armour of steel would have given considerably greater protection, which accords well with the experience of Oxford's men against the elite French vanguard at Poitiers in 1356, and des Ursin's statement that the French knights of the first ranks at Agincourt, which included some of the most important ( and thus best-equipped ) nobles, remained comparatively unhurt by the English arrows.

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

As with other candidates for authorship of Shakespeare's works, Oxford's supporters have attributed numerous non-Shakespearean works to him.

While there is no documentary evidence connecting Oxford ( or any authorial candidate ) to the plays of Shakespeare, Oxfordian researchers, including Mark Anderson and Charlton Ogburn, believe the connection is provided by considerable circumstantial evidence inferred from Oxford's connections to the Elizabethan theatre and poetry scene ; the participation of his family in the printing and publication of the First Folio ; his relationship with the Earl of Southampton ( believed by most Shakespeare scholars to have been Shakespeare's patron ); as well as a number of specific incidents and circumstances of Oxford's life that Oxfordians believe are depicted in the plays themselves.

Joseph Sobran's book, Alias Shakespeare, includes Oxford's known poetry in an appendix with what he considers extensive verbal parallels with the work of Shakespeare, and he argues that Oxford's poetry is comparable in quality to some of Shakespeare's early work, such as Titus Andronicus.

Most notable among these, they say, are certain similar incidents found in Oxford's biography and Hamlet, and Henry IV, Part 1, which includes a well-known robbery scene with uncanny parallels to a real-life incident involving Oxford.

Oxfordians see a parallel with Oxford's life, as his father died at the age of 46 on 3 August 1562, although not before making a will six days earlier, and his stepmother remarried within 15 months, although exactly when is unknown.

Oxford's illicit congress with Anne Vavasour resulted in an intermittent series of street battles between the Knyvet clan, led by Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet, and Oxford ’ s men.

Beginning with Looney, most Oxfordians ( exceptions are Percy Allen and Louis Bénézet ) have asserted that the " Fair Youth " referred to in the early sonnets refers to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, Oxford's peer and prospective son-in-law.

In practice, Oxford's Warehouse-Keeper dealt with sales, accounting, and the hiring and firing of print shop staff.

In fact, most of the money came from Oxford's new bible printer John Baskett – and the Vice-Chancellor William Delaune defaulted with much of the proceeds from Clarendon's work.

John de Vere also maintained a company of players known as " Oxford's Men ", which was discontinued by the 17th Earl two years after his father's death.

These immediately became fashionable in England ; for many years the scent was known as the " Earl of Oxford's perfume ".

The College stands along Holywell Street and New College Lane ( known for Oxford's Bridge of Sighs ), next to All Souls College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, The Queen's College and St Edmund Hall.

Eights Week, also known as Summer Eights, is a four-day regatta of bumps races which constitutes the University of Oxford's main intercollegiate rowing event of the year.

The Council Registers show that Oxford had a company of players under his protection in 1575 known as " Oxford's Men ".

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England.

Previously known under a variety of names ( see history ), most recently Oxford's FM 107. 9, the station launched in its current incarnation on 18 August 2010 following a publicity stunt playing only songs from the TV series Glee.

It was known for performances by underrated and up-and-coming bands and was Oxford's main music venue from its reopening in 1995 until 2007, when it was renamed the Carling Academy Oxford.

For Oxford's first-class fixtures other than those against Cambridge University they play as Oxford MCCU ( known as Oxford Universities Centre of Cricketing Excellence ( UCCE ) prior to the 2010 season ).

The University of Oxford's classics course — also known as " Greats " — is divided into two parts, lasting five terms and seven terms respectively, the whole lasting four years in total, which is one year more than most arts degrees at Oxford and other English universities.

The Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, usually known as OICCU, was the second university Christian Union and is the University of Oxford's most prominent student Protestant organisation.

Cecil later wrote that he attempted to have the jury find for Oxford's acting in self-defence.

On Oxford's return across the Channel in April, his ship was hijacked by pirates from Flushing, who took his possessions, stripped him to his shirt, and might have murdered him had not one of them recognized him.

Cecil seems to have done little to further Oxford's interests in the suit.

Oxfordians also claim that the fact that a number of the later plays ( such as Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Pericles ) have been described as incomplete or collaborative is explained by these plays being either drafted earlier than conventionally believed, or simply revised / completed by others after Oxford's death.

In a striking parallel, on Oxford's return from Europe across the Channel in April 1576, his ship was hijacked by pirates who robbed him and left him stripped to his shirt, and who might have murdered him had not one of them recognised him.

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

Sobran also believes " scholars have largely ignored one of the chief themes of the Sonnets: the poet's sense of disgrace .... here can be no doubt that the poet is referring to something real that he expects his friends to know about ; in fact, he makes clear that a wide public knows about it ... Once again the poet's situation matches Oxford's ....

Referring to more recent events, Edward Chaney suggested that Pandosto ( and therefore Winter's Tale ) at least echoed the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter ( grand-daughter of Lord Burghley ) and that a Sicilian connection ( which is at least a literary one ) would have rendered a conscious echo more likely.

For instance, a production at Oxford's Burton Taylor Theatre in March 2004, claimed to have been the first performance of the play in England since its putative recovery ( although a successful amateur production had premiered at Essex University's Lakeside Theatre on October 15, 1998 ).

Notwithstanding the above, significant changes have occurred at both Oxford and Cambridge over the last century, including Cambridge's diversification away from intense mathematical study and Oxford's renewed emphasis on ground-breaking scientific research, such as its influential work in the development of penicillin.

Recent races have been closely fought, with Oxford winning by the shortest ever margin of in 2003 and Cambridge winning in 2004 despite Oxford's claims of a foul.

While Oxford's academic staff barely notice that all of their undergraduates have vanished, Zuleika decides to order a special train for the next morning ... bound for Cambridge.

Hitchin was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Oxford's Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize ( 1990 ), the Sylvester Medal ( 2000 ) and the Pólya Prize ( 2002 ) have been awarded to him in honour of his far-reaching work.

He was the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars ' congregation via a webcast.