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It's Willfully Stupid to Pretend the Shakespeare Authorship Question Is Resolved

More than meets the eye? In response to the recent publication of Elizabeth Winkler’s lively and thought-provoking Shakespeare Is a Woman and Other Heresies, which is, among other things, a powerful book-length argument for academic freedom in English departments, Slate.com published a review by staff writer Isaac Butler labeling Winkler’s book “Shakespeare Trutherism” and urging a supposedly…

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"Nothing is Truer than Truth" Premieres on Hulu and Amazon Prime

“Nothing is Truer than Truth” Premieres on Hulu and Amazon Prime

“Nothing is Truer than Truth” on Hulu and Amazon Prime

Nothing is Truer than Truth, the documentary film on Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as Shakespeare, produced and directed by SOF member Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, premieres this week on the subscription film and television service Hulu, best known for its award-winning original series The Handmaid’s Tale. Beginning August 30th, the film is…

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I will add that this is all balanced out by the fact that Green is clearly the most important of the favorites in Thomas of Woodstock, although that version of him is basically just Robert de Vere (the Lancastrian-propaganda version) under a different name -- he clearly holds tremendous amount of sway over Richard and even calls him by his first name, and Richard is devastated when he is killed in battle and has to be pulled off of his body (which he kisses and swears vengeance to). The actual Robert de Vere is said to be dead, in the one appearance of his widow, whose only line is to inform Queen Anne that their husbands were doing the horizontal estampie. This makes no sense in terms of the play's chronology vs. what's said about him, but the plot of Woodstock basically layers the events of 1387 and 1397 on top of one another as well as including Anne's death in 1394 (it explicitly gives the year as 1387).

(As a side note, it's been suggested that Robert de Vere isn't in the play because the author didn't want to offend the current Earl of Oxford, none other than Edward de Vere, who sponsored a theater company. It's also been suggested that this shows that Edward de Vere wrote it, which is even less plausible even if you don't go on to argue that this somehow also proves he wrote Richard II. Which he didn't, obviously. But even the first theory has problems since the ONE THING said about Robert de Vere is that he was fucking Richard, and if you didn't want to include information that would have been seen as casting aspersions on the de Vere family -- especially given Edward de Vere's habit of transporting teenage choirboys across international borders for immoral purposes -- why would you mention that at all? Plus recent theories on the date of Woodstock tend to place it in the early seventeenth century at which point Edward de Vere was also dead!)

* Infamous (and tedious) Oxfordian Roger Stritmatter thinks that the Duchess of Ireland's dialogue "clears" her late husband of sodomy, which only demonstrates that he wants textual evidence so badly he isn't actually reading the text. I mean, there is no way to get that from "My husband Ireland, that unloving lord-- / God pardon his amiss; he now is dead-- / King Richard is the cause he left my bed."

THE WORLD DESERVES MY RESEARCH, DAMMIT

(also, I guess this is not quite as much of a phenomenon as I thought, but the sample size is, in the grand scheme of things, fairly small, as it is limited to “productions I have had access to” which is largely contingent on their being on film or my having money to travel)

Also while double-checking that last footnote I found something both irritating and hilarious, which I will post separately.

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James Warren: How I Became an Oxfordian

James Warren: How I Became an Oxfordian

I first learned of the name Edward de Vere in November 2002, in an issue of The Great Ideas Online, the weekly publication of the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas, which I had become a member of only one month earlier. Max Weismann, who founded the Center with Mortimer J. Adler, used the weekly publication to disseminate articles of interest to the Center’s members.

James Warren

That issue…

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Speakers and Topics Announced for SOF Hartford Conference; James Warren Will Keynote

Speakers and Topics Announced for SOF Hartford Conference; James Warren Will Keynote

Mark Twain House

More than two dozen speakers will present papers at the upcoming SOF Conference at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, October 17-20, 2019, on subjects ranging from new discoveries about J. Thomas Looney to arguments about group authorship, pen names, stagecraft, and the politics of poetry. Be sure to registerfor the conference by September 1 to save on your…

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SOF's Successful Summer Seminar in Ashland, Oregon 2019

SOF’s Successful Summer Seminar in Ashland, Oregon 2019

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Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship sponsored its third Shakespeare Authorship Summer Seminar in Ashland, Oregon, from Monday, July 22 to Friday, July 26, 2019. This year’s program attracted almost 50 participants, who gathered together over a five-day span of presentations and three evenings of plays. The focus of this year’s seminar was on the Shakespeare plays in production…

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New Book Explores Early Doubts about Shakespeare's Authorship

New Book Explores Early Doubts about Shakespeare’s Authorship

Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal

Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal has published a landmark new book, Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubts. The book refutes the commonly heard Stratfordian claim that nobody entertained any doubts about authorship until hundreds of years after the death of William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon (1564-1616), the actor and businessman conventionally credited as the…

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Stritmatter Book on Oxford's Poems, 1st Volume, Now on Amazon

Stritmatter Book on Oxford’s Poems, 1st Volume, Now on Amazon

At a time of year when the Shakespeare establishment is often commemorating the life of a man from Stratford-upon-Avon who cannot be proved to have ever attended a school, written a letter, or owned a book, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship celebrates the life and poetry of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, a man with a far stronger claim to have been the author “Shakespeare.”  The Poems of…

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Alice Knox Eaton: How I Became an Oxfordian

Alice Knox Eaton: How I Became an Oxfordian

The traditional biography of Shakespeare never made sense to me.  On a visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon, I picked up a biography with the bard’s portrait on the cover, and found a mishmash of perhapses and must haves and presumablys.  The little that was known about the Stratford man didn’t sit right with me.  I couldn’t imagine such a man creating my favorite character, Cleopatra.

Alice Knox Eaton…

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Roger Stritmatter talks Shakespeare and the Law

Roger Stritmatter talks Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Law, edited by Roger Stritmatter, was published June 30, 2022 In a new edition of The SOF Interviews, Roger Stritmatter talks with Bob Meyers about Shakespeare and the Law: How the Bard’s Legal Knowledge Affects the Authorship Question. The eleven essays in this comprehensive book, collected and edited by Professor Stritmatter, date between 1916 and 2013, and supply a detailed…

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SOF Summer Seminar, Ashland, Oregon, July 22-25, 2019

SOF Summer Seminar, Ashland, Oregon, July 22-25, 2019

The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship is sponsoring a summer seminar in Ashland, Oregon July 22 through 25, 2019 focused on three plays in production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF),  As You Like It, All’s Well that Ends Well, and Macbeth. Authors of recent Shakespeare authorship publications will also be featured. The seminar will take place in the beautiful Meese Room at Hannon Library on…

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A Tool for Educators and Students: The New Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook 

We have great news to share for educators and students! The new edition of The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook is now available. Containing resources, strategies, essays and teaching plans, this remarkable volume, edited by Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D., will enhance everyone’s ability to teach and communicate about the authorship issue. The book is available through Amazon. Roger talks about the…

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It’s Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day!

It’s Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day!

Celebrate Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day today, from Noon to 5pm Eastern time (9am – 2pm Pacific), on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Facebook page where we’re hosting live authorship talks with Q&A. While enjoying the talks, you can question the speakers and chat with other viewers.

Here’s the lineup:

Noon – 1:30 EST Ros Barber: Intro to the Shakespeare Authorship Question

1:30 – 3:00 EST…

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Live Authorship Talks on Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day, November 8

Live Authorship Talks on Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day, November 8

Join us on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Facebook pagefor the second annual Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day on November 8, when we will host live authorship talks with Q&A from noon to 5pm Eastern (9am–3pm Pacific). While enjoying the talks, you can question the speakers and chat with other viewers. Be sure to invite your authorship-curious friends – the talks will be an ideal introduction…

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Oxfordians of the Year: Ramon Jiménez and Joan Leon

For the first time, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship has awarded a joint “Oxfordian of the Year” award. The 2018 award was presented at the SOF’s Oakland conference to husband and wife, Ramon Jiménez and Joan Leon, both long-serving current or former members of the Board of Trustees.

Ramon Jiménez

Ramon Jiménez

Ramon Jiménez’s recent book, Shakespeare’s Apprenticeship: Identifying the Real…