Well, assuming that he did, and the evidence all points the other way, we would have to assume that he wrote because he liked writing. Since there is no evidence that he did write the plays, there is naturally no evidence as to why. He was well off, so it wasn't as if he needed the money (especially since writing plays didn't pay that well unless you were the owner of a playing company).
De Vere died in 1604 before some of the plays, including The Tempest and Macbeth, were written.
because he was writing the plays
The film you are referring to is "Anonymous," directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie explores the theory that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was the true author of William Shakespeare's plays.
Edward Vere Levinge died in 1954.
Edward Vere Levinge was born in 1867.
Edward De Vere Oxford has written: 'The poems of Edward De Vere' -- subject(s): Authorship
Edward de Vere was born on April 12, 1550.
Nothing because Edward De Vere died before Queen Victoria.
Edward de Vere died on June 24, 1604 at the age of 54.
Edward de Vere was the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. He lived between 1550 and 1604. He was a poet and a playwright and is one of the people some think may have written some of the plays ascribed to Shakespeare.
Edward de Vere died on June 24, 1604 at the age of 54.
Edward de Vere was born on April 12, 1550.