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Percy Allen
1872–1959
Best remembered as a journalist and writer with a deep interest in Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre, he also published travel books that captured places such as Provence and Burgundy. His later work became especially associated with the Oxfordian view of Shakespeare authorship.
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About the author
Percy Allen was an English journalist, writer, and lecturer born in 1872 and died in 1959. He wrote across more than one field, combining literary interests with a talent for descriptive nonfiction, and his books include travel works such as Impressions of Provence and Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy.
He is chiefly remembered for his writing on Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre. Allen became a prominent supporter of the Oxfordian theory, the idea that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, wrote the works traditionally credited to William Shakespeare.
That interest shaped much of his later reputation. Whether readers come to him for his theatrical studies or his travel writing, his work reflects a lively curiosity about history, place, and literary mystery.