sigmund freud, 1930: "incidentally, in this meantime, i stopped to believe that the author of shakespeare's works were the man of stratford." (freud supported the theory that the works attributed to shakespeare were written by edward de vere, the earl of oxford, and that this discovery help in better interpretation of his sonnets) ("outline of psychoanalysis", 1940/1987: 220). note added in "the interpretation of dreams" (1900) – freud, 1900/1987: 260