Admirable Nelson

This should be interesting:

"A live webcast has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 28 from 8:15 - 9:15pm Pacific Time [4.15-5.15am Thursday morning GMT] with Anonymous director Roland Emmerich, writer/producer John Orloff and historian/writer/lecturer Charles Beauclerk on the Shakespeare authorship debate. Emmerich, Orloff and Beauclerk will face off against UC Berkeley's Professor Alan H. Nelson in the webcast."

Alan Nelson is the attack dog of the anti-Oxfordians, so there could be fireworks. He wrote a highly entertaining, swingeing character assassination of De Vere, Monstrous Adversary 'demonstrating' that the Earl of Oxford was far too horrible to be the Bard.

His perspective is interesting in that while Oxfordians are accused of being snobs for suggesting that the Stratford fellow wasn't capable of writing the plays, Nelson and others adopt a similar snobbery in suggesting that De Vere was such a morally bankrupt chap that he was incapable of the elevated thought of Shakespeare.

Additionally, Nelson argues that De Vere wasn't actually well educated and was a demonstrably rubbish poet - thereby having his cake and jolly well eating it too.

There's no love lost between Beauclerk and Nelson, so it should be fun.