#Julie Sandys Bianchi

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Earl Showerman Affirmed as President

Earl Showerman Affirmed as President

Earl Showerman was elected by members to lead the SOF. Earl Showerman was affirmed for a one-year term as president of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship at the Annual Business Meeting on September 25, 2022. Also affirmed were Tom Woosnam as Vice President, Bonner Miller Cutting as Secretary and Richard Foulke as Treasurer. Julie Sandys Bianchi left the board after serving two terms, the maximum…

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SOF Gets Good Coverage in Major Urban Weekly

by Bryan H. Wildenthal The SOF got some good coverage on June 15 in Willamette Week, the alternative weekly newspaper serving Portland, Oregon, and its metropolitan area of more than 2 million people. The article highlights “the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship” as “an international organization that posits Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford,” as “the true writer of the Shakespeare canon and…

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What Happened to Shakspere’s Missing Book “Inventory”?

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen anti-Stratfordians point out that William Shakspere of Stratford left no books in his will, and that indeed there is no evidence that he ever owned a book, orthodox Stratfordians often respond by hypothesizing that there must have been a separate “inventory” appended to the will that listed his books and that this inventory has been – alas! – lost to the ages. Clearly,…

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Julie Bianchi on the SOF Video Contest and Playing Card Symbolism in the First Folio

Julie Bianchi on the SOF Video Contest and Playing Card Symbolism in the First Folio

Trustee Julie Sandys Bianchi developed the SOF’s video contest several years ago as a way to make the story of Edward de Vere exciting, entertaining and visual. Now she sets her sights on the upcoming 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623. She’s devised a three-part way for you to tell that story — focusing on the foreground, background or underground of this…