Was the Earl of Oxford Bisexual? - Robert Prechter

The idea that the Earl of Oxford was bisexual has many adherents and seems of late to have reached new heights of popularity. Robert Prechter examines inferences that the Earl of Oxford experienced homosexual attraction and analyzes Oxford’s return to England with a choir boy in 1576, Arundell’s charge of pederasty in 1581, a description purportedly of Oxford by Barnabe Rich in 1581, Oxford’s involvement with the theatre, and the text of one of Oxford’s poems
He explores evidence that Shakespeare was bisexual based on inferences drawn by proponents from the plays and sonnets and concludes that most of these items fail to survive scrutiny and ultimately prove better arguments against the proposition than for it. Any remaining items are equivocal at best.
Bio: Robert Prechter has written 25 Oxfordian articles and papers. He is author of an online set of books titled Oxford’s Voices (oxfordsvoices....) which explores Elizabethan-era authorship.
In the business world, he is best known for developing a theory of social causality called socionomics, for developing a new theory of finance and for his long career applying and enhancing R.N. Elliott’s model of financial pricing called the Wave Principle.
His publication, The Elliott Wave Theorist, won numerous speaking, timing and publishing awards during the 1980s, and in 1989 and he was named “Guru of the Decade” by the Financial News Network (now CNBC). In 1999, Prechter received the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts’ inaugural A.J. Frost Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Technical Analysis. In 2003, Traders Library granted him its Hall of Fame award. The Market Technicians Association presented him with its Annual Award in 2013.
This talk was presented as part of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship 2023 Annual Conference, held November 9-12, 2023.
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