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2013

Vol. 49, No. 2: Spring 2013

Contents: Hamill and Regnier Call for Unity; Notice of Intent; Richard Joyrich: Book for Toronto Now!; Letters to the Editor: Paul Streitz, Nina Green, Richard Malim, Jack M. Shuttleworth, Sid Lubow, Carl Sterling, Richard Waugaman; Editorial: England and St. George!; A Correspondent: Why the Shakespeare Authorship Question Matters; The Stratford Festival; Spring Books: Richard Whalen, Alan William Green, Warren Hope and Kim Holston, Mike A’Dair; Joan Leon: BOT News; Membership Form

Vol. 49, No. 1: Winter 2013

Contents:  From the Editor: Time to Catch our Breath; Letters to the Editor: Greg Ellis, Carole Sue Lipman; John Hamill: Shakespeare’s Bisexuality vs. the Prince Tudor Theory; Richard M. Waugaman: A New 1569 Poem by Arthur Golding, Attributed to Edward de Vere; Michael Egan: Shakespeare’s Education by Robin Fox; John Hamill: President’s Message; Lamberto Tassinari: A Comparison of Shakespeare’s and Florio’s Wills; Stephanie Hopkins Hughes: The Big Six Candidates for Shakespeare’s Crown; Richard Joyrich: Eighth Annual Conference Report

2012

Vol. 48, No. 3: Summer/Fall 2012

Contents:  Pasadena 2012 Report; John Hamill: President’s Letter; Authorship Conference Concordia University; Letters to the Editor: Lamberto Tassinari, Helen Heightsman Gordon, Richard M. Waugaman, Paul Streitz; Peter Rush: Answering Hamill: Southampton Poem Confirms Relationship of Southampton to Oxford, Sonnets; Richard M. Waugaman: Shakespeare, Oxford and The Book of Common Prayer; Matthew Cossolotto: Top Ten Reasons why Oxford was Shakespeare; Michael Egan: The Essex Rebellion and Richard II: Why Wasn’t Shakespeare Arrested?; Shakespeare Oxford Society Membership Renewal

Vol. 48, No. 2: Spring 2012

Contents: Editorial: New Southampton Poem Shakes Up Authorship Debate; Letters to the Editor: Hilary Roe Metternich, John Shahan; Pasadena Conference; Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton: ‘The Earl of Southampton Prisoner, and Condemned, to Queen Elizabeth’;  Hank Whittemore: Southampton Poem Proves Oxford, ‘Prince Tudor’ Hypotheses; John Hamill: ‘To Queen Elizabeth’ Just a Plea for Mercy; Richard Waugaman: ‘Psalms’ Help Confirm de Vere Was Shakespeare; Matthew Cossolotto: Top Ten Reasons To Doubt that Shakespere Wrote ‘Shakespeare’; Richard Joyrich: Concordia Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference 2012; Richard Joyrich: President’s Letter; Shakespeare Oxford Society Legacy Gift Campaign

Vol. 48, No. 1: Winter 2012

Contents: Winter Books: An Amazing Year for Oxfordians; Letters to the Editor: Lora Cossolotto; President’s Letter; Richard Paul Roe: The Shakespeare Guide to Italy; Lamberto Tassinari: John Florio: The Man Who Was Shakespeare; Ren Draya and Richard Whalen (eds.): Othello The Moor of Venice; Richard Malim: The Earl of Oxford and the Making of ‘Shakespeare’; A.J. Pointon: The Man Who was Never Shakespeare; Katherine Chiljan: Shakespeare Suppressed; Paul Altrocchi and Hank Whittemore (eds.): The Great Shakespeare Hoax; Sabrina Feldman: The Apocryphal William Shakespeare; Carleton Sterling: Shakespeare’s Actors; H S Essay Contest; Shakespeare Puzzle; SOS/SF Conference: Call for Papers; Concordia Conference: Program; Legacy Gift Appeal

2011

Vol. 47, No. 3: Fall 2011

Contents: Ren Draya: Singer and Song: The Music in Twelfth Night; Letters to the Editor: Ren Draya, Stephanie Hughes, and Elizabeth Imlay; Richard Waugaman; Richard Joyrich: President’s Letter; In Memoriam: Noemi Magri, Tom Hunter; Donald P Hayes: The Silence of the Peers: Social Network Theory Proves Shakespere was not Shakespeare; Cheryl Eagan-Donovan: Anonymous: Shakespeare the Writer; John Hamill: Robert Detobel’s Shakespeare: The Concealed Poet; Richard Joyrich: Joint Annual Conference and Concordia Report 2011

Vol. 47, No. 2: Spring 2011

Contents: Gilvary: New Bricks in the Wall of Evidence by Ron Hess; Letters to the Editor; News and Views; Board Positions Open by Susan G. Width; Have Genome Scientists Uncovered Shakespeare’s Literary DNA?; Shakespeare’s Biological Problems Heat Up by Richard Whalen; In Memoriam; Shakespeare’s Amazing Nautical Knowledg; SAC Seeks to Legitimize AQ in Colleges by 23 April 2016 by John Shahan; President’s Letter by Richard Joyrich; Conference Registration; SOS Urgent Appeal

Vol. 47, No. 1: January 2011

Contents: Oxfordians Mourn Passing ofRichard Roe, by Daniel Wright,Hilary Roe Metternich; A Conversation with Richard Roe by Ramon Jiménez; Draya and Whalen Triumph with Oxfordian Othello by William Farina; NL Editor Interviewed on KSNM 570 AM Las Cruces; Theater Professionals Sign Declaration of Reasonable Doubt in Ashland by John Shahan; Letters to the Editor; How Reliable is Stylometrics? by Ramon Jiménez; President’s Letter and Ashland Conference Report by Richard Joyrich; SOS Urgent Appeal

2010

Vol. 46, No. 2: August 2010

Contents: President’s Message by John  Hamill; Why Is There No History of Henry VII? by Robin Fox; Henry V by Olivier and Branagh: Enhancing Artistic Vision Through Technology by Johanna Krout Tabin; The Big Six Candidates by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Book Review: Theories of Authorship by Richard F. Whalen; Obituaries: Robert Brazil and Verily Anderson; Report of the 14th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Conference by Richard Joyrich; Stratford, Cooperstown and Myth by Richard F. Whalen

Vol. 46, No. 1: May 2010

Contents: Shakespeare and “The King of Hungary’s ‘Peace’”: An Earlier Source for an Allusion in Measure for Measure by Connie Beane; Much Ado About Authorship in Media; Peter Moore’s Research in New Edition; Searching for Shakespeare’s Earliest Published Works by Paul H. Altrocchi, MD; Book Review: Stratfordian Professor Takes Authorship Question Seriously by Richard F. Whalen; Book Review: Shapiro and Why Authorship Doubters Don’t Believe by Thomas Hunter, Ph.D.; An Interview with Stephanie Hughes, Former Editor of The Oxfordian by Linda Theil; Who’s Th’heir? Another Reading of Hamlet’s Opening Line by Hank Whittemore; John Thomas Looney (1870-1944) by Professor The Revd. V.A. Demant; Letter to Editor

2009

Vol. 45, No. 3: December 2009

Contents: Letter from SOS President John Hamill; SFISOS Joint Conference Sept. 16-19, 2010; Board of Trustees Approves Changes In Membership Dues Starting January 2010; Reports On Society Finances; The Oxfordian Seeks Editors; The Oxfordian Update; Derran Charlton Reported to SOS on the Death of Oxfordian Paul Blair in California; In Memoriam: Andy Hannas; Houston Authorship Conference; Reports On Conference – “Shakespeare: from Rowe to Shapiro”; The Globe/London: 28 November 2009; Poem-Ray; Rowe’s Shakespeare Biography: Some Account of the Life & c. of Mr. William Shakespear; The Two Shake-speares; Book Review: Review Of A Review: For Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare Biographies Must Be Boldly Imaginary; Letters To The Editor

Vol. 45, No. 2: September 2009

Contents: Posthumous Sonnets by Matthew Cossolotto; Remembering K.C. by Hank Whittemore; No-body and Some-body by Robert Prechter; De Vere as Henry IV by Derran Charlton; Ben Jonson by Marie Merkel; Poem by William Ray; Apocrypha by William Ray; Much Ado review  by Stephanie Hughes; Book Review: Soul of the Age by Richard Whalen; Film update by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan; Altrocchi & Whittemore build the case; Shahan to Shermer

Vol. 45, No. 1: June 2009

Contents: Enchanted April by Matthew Cossolotto; Publications Committee News by John Hamill; Poem by William Ray; Oxford Beyond a Reasonable Doubt by Tom Hunter; Relevance of Shakspere’s Signatures by Frank Davis; Spaniard in the Elizabethan Court by John Hamill; Alan Navarre: Oxfordian playwright; Book review: Is It True What They Say About Shakespeare? by Richard Whalen; SF/SOS Joint conference

2008

Vol. 44, No. 3: Summer 2008

Contents: Is a Powerful Authorship Smoking Gun Buried Within Westminster Abbey? by Dr. Paul Altroccchi; Report of the White Plains Shakespeare Authorship Conference by Richard Joyrich; President’s Page; Greetings; The Oxfordian’s New Editor is up for the Challenge; For Immediate Release; Letters to the Editor; Shakespeare as Brand Name; Noted Shakespearean Egan Takes Over The Oxfordian

Vol. 44, No. 2: Spring 2008

Contents: Horestes and Hamlet by Earl Showerman; President’s Page by Matthew Cossolotto; Cambridge University “Implications” of Polimanteia by Derran Charlton; Schurink’s Discovery of a Century by Donald Frederick Nelson; Columbia Professor Writing a Book Length Study Of the Authorship Issue by Richard F. Whalen; Letter to the Editor; The Ending of Oxford’s Othello Michael Delahoyde, Ph.D.; Shakespeare Authorship Conference in White Plains, NY

Vol. 44, No. 1: Winter 2008

Contents: Reverend Ward’s Diary: The Early Tradition by R. Thomas Hunter, Ph.D.; Complaints about A Lover’s Complaint by Katherine Chiljan; President’s Page; GREETINGS; Hypothetical Tudor Princes; Sue Sybersma; Hamlet in 1603: A Quick-and-Dirty Quarto; Who Was the Author of Five Plays that Shakespeare Rewrote as His Own? New Eric Sams Website; Book Review ; Shakespearian Character Pairs Anagram Puzzle; Report on Oxfordian Activity in Seattle, Washington; Shakespearian Character Pairs Anagram Puzzle Solutions

2007

Vol. 43, No. 4: Fall 2007

Contents: William Shakespeare and the Authorship Controversy: A Study in Literary Triumph and Historical Tragedy by Allegra Krasznekewicz; President’s Page; Greetings; Carmel Authorship Conference; Isabel Holden; SOS President Matthew Cossolotto Interviews Allegra Krasznekewicz; Nine/Eleven, Iraq, and Henry V:Shakespeare in the Classroom by Lew Tate; Concordia Connections Issue; Letters to the Editor; Declaration of Reasonable Doubt; Recollections of Peter Moore on the Occasion of His Passing

Vol. 43, No. 3: Summer 2007

Contents: President’s Page; Greetings; An Argument for Less Literalism and More Metaphor, Symbolism, and Other Rhetorical Devices in Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Alan Tarica; Note for Sir John Sheppard by Julia Altrocchi; A New Letter by J. T. Looney Brought to Light by Christopher Paul; Brian Vickers on the Stratford Monument by Richard F. Whalen; “Roscius Revisited … ” Revisited by Nina Green; Letter to the Editor; Review: The RSC Shakespeare: William Shakespeare, Complete Works by Richard F. Whalen; 17% of Shakespeare Professors See at Least Possibly Good Reason to Question Shakspere as the Bard by Richard F. Whalen; 2007 Conference; The Ghost of Edward de Vere Speaks by Julia Altrocchi; Is there a Shakespeare Authorship Issue? by John Shahan

Vol. 43, No. 2: Spring 2007

Contents: Cocordia Summary by Richard Smiley and Richard Joyrich; GREETINGS; The Roscius Annotation Revisited by Paul H. Altrocchi, M.D. and Alan H. Nelson, Ph.D; “Leass for Making” Shakespeare Outed as a Liar? by Dr. Frank Davis; Shakespeare Authorship Coalition by John Shahan; Searching Under the Lamp-posts for Dating Shakespeare’s Sonnets by W. Ron Hess; Letters to the Editor; From the Archives: Tarlton and Shakespeare by Rear-Admiral H.H. Holland, C.B.; Obituary: Gordon Cyr

Vol. 43, No. 1: Winter 2007

Contents: Hide Fox and All After: the Search for Shakespeare by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Shakespeare Authorship Trust: The John Silberrad Memorial Lectures on the Shakespeare Authorship Question by Kevin Gilvary; President’s Page; Greetings; New Option for our Newsletter and Oxfordian Journal Writers; A Comparison of the 1609 and 1640 Texts of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by James W. Brooks, Ph.D.;  Shakespeare, not Arthur Brooke, Wrote Tragicall Historye of Romeus & Juliet by Paul Hemenway Altrocchi, MD; The Droeshout Collar by Derran Charlton; That Wild and Crazy Shakspere by Richard Whalen;  Letters to the Editor; Book Review: Behind Shakespeare’s Mask by Derran Charlton

2006

Vol. 42, No. 4: Fall (redux) 2006

Contents: Ann Arbor Conference by Lew Tate; Greetings; Mr. Marlowe: You’re No William Shakespeare by James Brooks; Trailing Elizabeth Trentham by Christopher Paul; Much Ado About Oxford by Richard Desper, Ph.D.; Ideational Change: Why Is It So Difficult? by Paul H. Altrocchi, MD; RSC at Ann Arbor by Lew Tate; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 42, No. 3: Fall 2006

Contents: R.I.P.: Bulbeck bites the dust by Christopher Paul; Oxford’s Childhood Part II: The first four years with Smith by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; President’s Letter/Editorial Greeting; Much Ado About Oxford by Richard Desper, Ph.D.; Letters to the Editor; Did Shakespeare Read from the 17th Earl of Oxford’s Personal Library? Part Two by w. Ron Hess, assisted by Alan Tarica; SOS & SF Joint Conference in Ann Arbor; Notes from the Field; Ren Draya; Review: More Shakespeare Names: Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language ill the Sidney Circle by Derran Charlton

Vol. 42, No. 2: Spring 2006

Contents: Did Shakespeare Read from the 17th Earl of Oxford’s Personal Library? Part One by w. Ron Hess, assisted by Alan Tarica; Oxford and the First Blackfriars, Part Two of Dr. Frank Davis’s previous article: “William Shakspere, Oxford, Elizabethan Actors, and Playhouses”; President’s Letter/Editorial Greeting; SOS & SF Joint Conference; Personal Adventures with the Authorship Question by Robin Fox; Review of the Annual Meeting of the De Vere Society by Derran Charlton; Letters to the Editor; The ‘Prince Tudor’ Hypothesis: A Brief Survey of the Pros and Cons by Richard F. Whalen; Antony and Cleopatra: the Women’s Voices by Ren Draya; Review: “Searching for Shakespeare” Exhibition by Derran Charlton; Oxfordian Archives

Vol. 42, No. 1: Winter 2006

Contents: Oxford’s Childhood: What we know and what we don’t by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Concordia Conference – 2006; President’s Letter/Editorial Greeting; William Shakspere, Oxford, Elizabethan Actors and Playhouses by Dr. Frank Davis; The Pardon by King James I of Henry Wriothesley,the Earl of Southampton by Derran Charlton; Shakespeare and the First Earl Of Oxford by R. Thomas Hunter, Ph.D.; Richard Whalen and the Professor;  Book Review: Another Early History Play is Added to the Shakespeare Canon by Ramon Jimenez; Shakespeare’s Monarchs and Mark Anderson by Carleton W. Sterling; Letters to the Editor: On Emaricdulfe by Robert Prechter and The Case of the Mad Mathematicians by Sam C. Saunders; Oxfordian Archives: Edward De Vere and the Commedia Dell’ Arte by Julia Cooley Altrocchi

2005

Vol. 41, No. 4: Fall 2005

Contents: Shakespeare Authorship Conference in Ashland, Oregon; The Earl of Oxford’s Annuity to Robert Hales: Queen’s Favored Musician First Patronized by Oxford by Katherine Chiljan; President’s Page; Who Was Emaricdulfe’s “E. C. Esquire”? by Derran Charlton; Music in Shakespeare by Ron Andrico;  Obituary: Ruth Loyd Miller 1922 – 2005; Might Edward de Vere Have Suffered from Alcoholism? By Robert R. Prechter, Jr; Book Reviews: Peter Ackroyd’s Shakespeare: The Biography by Derran CharIton, The Truth Will Out, Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Ramon Jimenez, The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question by Richard F. Whalen, Players: The Mysterious /dentity of William Shakespeare by Richard F. Whalen

Vol. 41, No. 3: Summer 2005

Contents: Arthur Golding’s First Decade of Translating: A Brief Examination By Sam C. Saunders;  The Dark Lady and Her Bastard: An Alternative Scenario by John Hamill; Book Review: Mark Anderson’s Shakespeare by Another Name by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Sixteenth-Century Letter Writing and Its Importance to Oxfordians by Ren Draya; The “Court Gossip” of Francis Osborne by Nina Green; The Grandsire Phrase in Romeo and Juliet by Derran Charlton and John Barton; A New Stratfordianism by Stuart Marlow; The Relative Size o f Shakespeare’ s Vocabulary by Wayne Shore

Vol. 41, No. 2: Spring 2005

Contents: Before He Was Shakespeare, Part Two by Joseph Sobran; Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University; Hank Whittemore Interviewed by Jim Sherwood; Hamlet in Time and Place by Carleton Sterling; Edward de Vere as Translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Paul H. Altrocchi, MD; President’s Letter; Textual Anomalies in Golding’s Translation of Metamorphoses by James Brooks; Oxfordian News; Coming Soon: Oxfordian Editions of Shakespeare ‘s Plays ; Book Reviews: Monstrous Errors Infect Monstrous Adversary by Richard F. Whalen, Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare After All by Richard F. Whalen; Ashland Authorship Conference

Vol. 41, No. 1: Winter 2005

Contents: 28th Annual SOS Conference in Atlanta Welcome and Keynote; Before He Was Shakespeare Part One by Joseph Sobran; President’s Letter; Shakespeare in Stratford and London: Five More Eyewitnesses Who Saw Nothing by Ramon Jimenez; Shakespeare’s “Last Will” Sonnets: Twelve Poems Convey the Poet’s Dying Wishes by Matthew Cossolotto; Where in the World is Will? C-SPAN Interviews Stephen Greenblatt; Obituary for Eric Sams by Frank Davis, Math Professor Leads New Seattle Chapter

2004

Vol. 40, No. 4: Fall 2004

Contents: Was Thomas Watson Shakespeare’s Precursor? by Eric Lewin Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D. and William Jansen; Shakespeare’s Audience: A Reassessment of the Stratfordian View by Richard F. Whalen; Paul Nitze, RIP by Gary Goldstein; Fixing An Academic Fiasco by James Brooks; Oxfordian News by Gary Goldstein; Letter to the Editor: Malvolio’s Yellow Stockings; Shakespeare Fellowship Conference Held in Baltimore October 7-10; Summer 2004 Prince Tudor Seminar by Daniel Wright; First Dutch Shakespeare Authorship Conference by Jan Scheffer and Sandra Schruijer; Two New Oxford Documents by Nina Green; Transcripts of New Oxford Documents

Vol. 40, No. 3: Summer 2004

Contents: University of Tennessee Law School Hosts Authorship Conference b y Richard F. Whalen; An Earl in Bondage By Nina Green; Editor ‘s Column; US-Australian Academics Research Authorship by Gary Goldstein; Shakespeare and the Law by Richard F. Whalen; 2nd Annual Shakespearean Authorship Trust Conference; 28th SOS Annual Conference Program October 28- 31; International Media Cover Oxford’s Quadcentenary by Gary Goldstein; Letter to the Editor; Update on Greene’s Groats- Worth; Two New Biographies of 17th Earl of Oxford by Gary Goldstein; Authorship Workshops Planned at Kherson State University; Book Reviews: Ross W. Duffin’s Shakespeare’s Songbook by Gordon C. Cyr; An Encore for Shakespeare ‘s Rare Italian Master by Ross Duffin; Book Review: Kermode Attacks Catholic Bard Movement by Peter Dickson

Vol. 40, No. 2: Spring 2004

Contents: The Testimony of Ben Jonson in Redating The Tempest, Othello, and Timon of Athens by Robert Detobel; President’s Letter; Fraud At Colne Priory By Nina Green; Oxfordian News By Gary Goldstein; Letters to the Editor; In Memoriam: Leonard Hansen, Avid Antiquarian and Oxfordian by Gerit Quealy; Time To Declare Victory by Gary L Livacari, D.D.S.; Post Mortem on John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford; New Shakespeare Biography by Harvard Scholar by Richard F. Whalen; Book Review: Malicious Adversary: Nelson vs. Oxford by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Oxford on Trial in Houston by Richard F. Whalen

Vol. 40, No. 1: Winter 2004

Contents: Demonography 101: Alan Nelson’s Monstrous Adversary by Peter R. Moore; Oxford, Hamlet, and the Pirates: The Naked Truth By Christopher Paul; Edward de Vere and the Courtesan Culture of Venice by William Farina; Capturing Student Interest i n the Authorship Debate: Studying Intentional Droeshout Portrait Errors by Paul H. Altrocchi, MD; 2004 SOS Conference Scheduled for Atlanta; What’s in a Name, A Parody by James Sherwood; Q&A with Richard Whalen: Shakespeare’s Audiences; Book Review: Michael Brame and Galina Popova ‘s Shakespeare’s Fingerprints, by Richard F. Whalen; Oxfordian News

2003

Vol. 39, No. 4: Autumn 2003

Contents: Nelson’s Flawed Life of Oxford By Joseph Sobran; 27th Annual SOS Conference in NYC Performance & Publishing Take Center Stage By Gary Goldstein and Stephanie Hughes; Letter from the President; The Ten Restless Ghosts of Mantua: Shakespeare’s Specter Lingers Over the Italian City, Part Two – Castiglione and the Gonzaga Family of Mantua By John Hamill; Michael Wood Lectures at the Smithsonian on a Catholic Shakespeare by Peter Dickson; Stanley Wells at the Smithsonian by W. Ron Hess; Professor Wells and the Silver Bullet Question by R.C.W. Malim; Autumn Meeting of the De Vere Society By Kevin Gilvary; Book Reviews by Ramon Jimenez: Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, by Harold B loom, Shakespeare: For All Time, by Stanley Wells, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, edited by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells

Vol. 39, No. 3: Summer 2003

Contents: Globe’s Authorship Conference Roundly Successful by Gerit Quealy; The Ten Restless Ghosts of Mantua: Shakespeare’s Specter Lingers over the Italian City By John Hamill; SOS Conference Update – New York City, October 23-26; Aeolian Stinking Pitch: Tempestuous Shipwreck on the Island of Vulcano, Another Oxfordian View on The Tempest’s Locale By Paul H. Altrocchi, MD; The Temple in Lord Pembroke’s Garden The Truth about the Wilton Shakespeare Shrine by Gerit Quealy; Oxfordian News; Elizabeth Exhibited: The National Maritime Museum outside London presents the largest exhibit honoring the Tudor Queen; Book Review: Harold Love’s Attributing Authorship: An Introduction by Ramon Jimenez;

Vol. 39, No. 2: Spring 2003

Contents: Shakespeare Debate at the Smithsonian by John Hamill; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in London by Lowell James Swank; Good Queen Bess at the Folger; A Tribute to Delia Bacon by Carole Sue Lipman; Concordia Conference by Robert Barrett Jr; Oxfordian News; Words Coined by Shakespeare Pt 2 by Michael Macrone; Thoughts on Oxfordian Strategy by John Shahan; Interview with Sarah Smith by James Sherwood; Book Review: Sarah Smith’s Chasing Shakespeares by James Sherwood; Obituaries: John Louther, G. Grant Gifford; On Shakespeare’s Profession; Letter to Editor

Vol. 39, No. 1: Winter 2003

Contents: Shakespeare’s Globe to Host Authorship Conference by Gerit Quealy; Dating the Ashbourne Portrait by Katherine Chiljan; Prospero’s Island by John Barton; Twelfth Night in Sienna by William Farina; Words Coined by Shakespeare Pt 1 by Michael Macrone; The CCI Report on the Ashbourne Portrait by Katherine Chiljan; Oxford and the Turk by Robert Brazil; Book Reviews

2002

Vol. 38, No. 4: Fall 2002

Contents: 26th Annual SOS Conference Held in Nation’s Capitol Library of Congress Talk, Folger Tour Highlighted; Camden, Drayton, Greene, Hall, and Cooke: Five Eyewitnesses Who Saw Nothing b y Ramon Jimenez; Gheeraerts Exhibit Featured at the Tate by Gerit Quealy; University of Toronto Hosts “Picturing Shakespeare” Symposium by Sue Sybersma; Oxfordian News; Revisiting the Dating of Twelfth Night by Dr. Frank Davis; Books in Brief b y Robert Brazil: Infinite Variety, Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library, Esther Ferington, Editor; The Bedside Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare, Dick Riley & Pam McAllister; The Real Shakespeare, Marilyn Savage Gray; Letters To the Editor

Vol. 38, No. 3: Summer 2002

Contents: Stylometrics and the Funeral Elegy Affair By Robert Brazil and Wayne Shore; This Strange Eventful History: Oxford, Shakespeare, and The Seven Ages of Man by Christopher Paul; The Shakespeare Oxford Society Convenes in the Nation’s Capitol; The View from Santa Cruz; Shakespeare News; Oxfordian News; The Sanders Portrait Revisited: Could the “newly discovered Shakespeare portait” be John Fletcher? by Sue Sybersma; WOTS-UP – Analysis for Oxfordians and Stratfordians (Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Strengths Underlying Planning) by John Shahan; Meet the SOS Trustees; Book Review: Paul Streitz’s Oxford, Son of Queen Elizabeth by James Sherwood; Countess Anne’s Book New light on a 1581 Translation of Sermons on Saint Paul and the Ephesians by Robert Brazil

Vol. 38, No. 2: Spring 2002

Contents: A Portrait of Southampton?; Edward de Vere, Philip Sidney, and the Battle of Agincourt, … in brawl ridiculous” by Ramon Jimenez; Oxford Document Bought by Film Composer by Katherine Chiljan; Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Argues for Oxford’s Authorship of Shakespeare; The Sixth Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference by Gerit Quealy; New Evidence Confirms Oxford’s Birth Date by Robert Brazil; Oxfordian News Don Foster Recants Elegy Attribution; Book Review Elementary, My Dear Holmes: Edward Holmes’ Discovering Shakespeare ,  A Handbook for Heretics by Ramon Jimenez; Shakespeare’s “Fluellen” Identified as a Retainer of the Earl of Oxford by Charles Wisner Barrell; Meet the SO S Trustees; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 38, No. 1: Winter 2002

Contents: Veres and de Vere: The Privilege of the Prefix by Bob Prechter; Oxford Makes NY Times: Authorship Question is News Fit to Print, Finally by Gerit Quealy; Auction Results of Oxford Document; Oxford’s Uncle Henry: Sir Thomas More Considered in Oxfordian Light by Joseph Sobran; Oxfordian News – Amy Freed on Radio: She Cares Who Wrote Shakespeare; the 6th Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference; Book Review: Michael Keevak’s Sexual Shakespeare by John Hamill; Orson the Oxfordian: Orson Welles’s Shakespearean Pursuits by Craig McGrath; The Peacham Document Revisited by David Roper; A Duel in DC: The Smithsonian Hosts an Authorship Debate by Gerit Quealy; Review of Journals Oxford Spoof in The Shakespeare Newsletter; The Updated 1 577 Interview of Oxford’s Page, Orazio Cuoco, in De Vere Society Newsletter; Meet the SOS Trustees; President’s Letter; Film Review: Much Ado About Something Explores Marlowe’s Case for Authorship by Anne Dobbs; Obituaries; Letters to the Editor

2001

Vol. 37, No. 4: Fall 2001

Contents: Carmel Hosts SOS Conference; the Peacham Chronogram by  David Roper; First Folio Fetches $6 Million; The Trout De Vere Album by Katherine Chiljan; Oxfordian News; New Evidence of Early Date for Henry V by Ramon Jimenez; Who is Buried in Shakespeare’s Grave by John Hamill?; Book Review; Letter to Editor

Vol. 37, No. 3: Summer 2001

Contents: The Premise of The Reign of King Edward III by Dr. Richard Desper; Stratford Man Discredited in Top History Magazine by Richard F. Whalen;  Beard of Avon puts the SAQ Center Stage; “Her Warbling Sting”: Music not Malady by Frank M. Davis, M.D.; An Obscure Legal Point in Hamlet by Richard F. Whalen; The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth: Key to Authorship Question? By Ramon Jimenez; Oxfordian News; Book Review; Introducing “phorionymous” & More on Batillus by Mark Anderson; Letters to Editor

Vol. 37, No. 2: Spring 2001

Contents:Cross-examining Leonard Digges on his Stratford Connections by Richard F. Whalen; Oxford as Shakespeare Celebrated Coast To Coast: 5th Annual De Vere Studies Conference Convenes in Portland & Birthday Bashes in Boston and Chicago by Nathan Baca; A New Shakespeare Portrait?; Bard barred as “too boring”; Arthur Golding’s Metamorphoses New Edition Now Available, and One Reviewer Considers the De Vere/Shakespeare Connection; The Hamlet formerly known as Prince: Royal National Production Leaves Out the Politics and the Stakes by Beverly Creasey; Obituary: James Edmund Fitzgerald, 1943-2001; Prince Hamlet, the “Spear-Shaker” of Elsinore – A Consideration of Just How Often the Madcap Prince Wielded Words in the Cut-Throat World of the Court by Hank Whittemore; Oxfordian News; Midsummer Nights Dream on film: From Hollywood extravaganza to British opera by Chuck Berney; Book Review: Paul Hemenway Altrocchi’s Most Greatly Lived : A Biographical Novel of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Whose Pen Name Was William Shakespeare by Richard F. Whalen; “Ingenuity for Imposition” by Mark K. Anderson; From the Editor : As We Like It? Letters to the Editor

Vol. 37, No. 1: Winter 2001

Contents: Elizabeth’s Glass by Charles Boyle; Semiotics and the Shakespeare Authorship Debate: The Author- And His Icon – Do Make A Difference In Understanding the Works by Dr. Merilee Karl; Shakespeare allusions and Oxford; wounded truth; Titian and Venus and Adonis: Hamlet and a “lost inheritance” by Richard F. Whalen; The Bad Boy is Back: Amidst all the recent Oxfordian authorship news, The New York Times trumpets Marlowe; Authorship film projects underway in US, UK ; 25th Annual Conference to be held in Carmel, California; A flood of Shakespeare biographies since the Ogburn and Honigmann works in 1984-1985 by Peter W. Dickson; A brief history of interpretation; Oxfordian News: Authorship play in California, an April Oxfordian Weekend scheduled in Chicago, Michigan Oxfordians spread the word, DVS Meeting in London; Stone Coffin Underneath by Paul Hemenway Altrocchi; The Upstart Crow ‘s Other Plumage: Classical Allusions May Indicate That Stratman Was, Indeed, a Frontman by Mark K. Anderson; From the Editor: The ABCs of the authorship debate; Letters to the Editor

2000

Vol. 36, No. 3: Fall 2000

Contents: New Light on the Dark Lady by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Stratford (Ont.) hosts 24th Annual Conference: First gathering outside the US celebrates another exciting year in the authorship debate; Shakespeare, authorship and the Earl featured on Fox TV’s Malcolm in the Middle; Oliver Stone on history and conspiracy; Panel discussion on Hamlet; Taymor’s Titus illuminates a troublesome play by Joseph Eldredge; Oxfordian News: Oxford Symposium held in Massachusetts, Authorship debate held in Washington DC, Oxford Day Banquet scheduled for April 27th; Sir Walter Scott as Paleo-Oxfordian: Some thoughts on the proposition that leading lights of the 1 9th century may have understood who Shakespeare was by Chuck Berney; Book Reviews: Diana Price’s Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Richard F. Whalen; Young Adult Novels Pitch Oxford as Shakespeare by Richard F. Whalen; From the Editor: Hamlet, the Comedy; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 36, No. 2: Summer 2000

Contents: An emerging “crypto-Catholic” theory challenges Stratfordians By Peter W. Dickson;  The not … too-hidden key to Minerva Britanna  – The Latin phrase “by the mind ‘I’ shall be seen” may mean just that by Roger Stritmatter; Recent articles cover sculptor Giulio Romano, the 3rd Earl of Southampton as the Queen’s son, and Will Shaksper’s children by Richard F. Whalen; US News and World Report features the Shakespeare mystery; some recent authorship encounters with William F. Buckley; News from the Folger Shakespeare Library: Ashbourne portrait now on public display;  tour guides explain the library’s neutral position on the authorship question; Nero Caesar: The First Folio’s Straight-Man by Mark K. Anderson; Oxfordian News: Michael York entertains at Vermont Renaissance Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company ‘s artistic director “wonders” about Shakespeare; Book Reviews: Julia M. Walker’s Dissing Elizabeth : Negative Representations of Gloriana by Alex McNeil; From the Editor: The Folger ‘s Authorship Policy; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 36, No. 1: Spring 2000

Contents: “Vere-y Interesting” Shakespeare’s treatment of the Earls of Oxford in the history plays by Dr. Daniel L. Wright; Paradigm earthquake strikes Amherst, Mass.: Oxfordian scholar Roger Stritmatter’s successful Ph.D. defense raises the authorship stakes; Last print issue of The Elizabethan Review published; new editor Pearson’s first De Vere Society Newsletter by Richard F. Whalen; Obituary: Sir John Gielgud 1904-2000; Whose handwriting? The annotations in Oxford’s Geneva B ible; Large turnout expected for 24th Annual Conference in Stratford; The last known letter of Edward de Vere brought to light by Susan Campbell; The “upstart Crow” supposes by Jonathan Dixon; Professor Daniel Wright’s Preface to his Examination of Roger Stritmatter; 4th Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference; The end of Stratfordianism: Prof Alan Nelson’s review of Alias Shakespeare a palpable miss by Joseph Sobran; Oxfordian News: Sir Derek Jacobi the featured guest at NY dinner celebrating Oxford, 13th Annual Oxford Day Banquet held in Cambridge; A French/English pun in Othello; Book Reviews: Garry O’ Connor’s William Shakespeare: A Popular Life by Richard F. Whalen; Virginia Woolf’s Shakespeare: Why Woolf made room for the Stratford lad in A Room of One ‘s Own by Andrew Werth; From the Editor: Paradigms Shifting and Shaking; Letters to the Editor

1999

Vol. 35, No. 4: Winter 1999

Contents: Shakespeare’s “Bad Law”: A journey through the history of the arguments by Mark Andre Alexander; Society opens its library, establishes an Endowment: Two long-standing goals become realities through the generosity of our supporters; Oxfordians winning the public debate; Public libraries welcome Oxfordians: Interest in the authorship debate runs high everywhere; Obituaries: Howard Bloch, Tal Wilson; “To Our English Terence …” by Richard F. Whalen; Gertrude C. Ford: a pioneer Oxfordian; President’s Letter From Society President Aaron Tatum; Why Pericles was not included in the First Folio by Charles Boyle; Oxfordian News: New Oxfordian group formed in Chicago, authorship question surfaces at Harvard, 2nd Annual Shakespeare Festival in Vermont this August; Love’s Labor’s Lost: What Happened at the Stationers’ Register From 1571-1576? by Roger Stritmatter; John Doyle and Ray Lischner’s Shakespeare for Dummies by Richard F. Whalen; Ophelia ‘s difference, or, “To catch the conscience of the counselor” by Mark K. Anderson; From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 35, No. 3: Fall 1999

Contents: Edward de Vere and the Shakespeare Quartos (Part II) by Robert Brazil; 23rd Annual Conference caps an eventful year: Controversial issues addressed; six new members elected to Board of Trustees; Poetry challenge in The  Shakespeare Newsletter draws an Oxfordian response; Jonson, Jones masque manuscripts found in Wilton House; The Legend of the Round-Earthers; Shal(espeare, Southampton and the Sonnets: Conference presentations explore competing theories; Shakespeare and Religion: Conference panel highlights sticking points for all Shakespeare scholars; Shakespeare’s Religion by Dr. Daniel L. Wright; The Thomas Creede connection: From Oxford, to Shakespeare, to Shakespeare’s sources, he was ever-present; James Roberts and Oxford: Another key publishing relationship; 1622 Othello cracks a frozen Shakespeare market by Peter W. Dickson; Oxfordian News Authorship Roundtable hosts lectures about recent research on Oxford and about Giordano Bruno, in England, an Oxfordian theater debuts in London; Book Reviews; Was the Troilus and Cressida Preface written in 1602- 1603?; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 35, No. 2: Summer 1999

Contents: Edward de Vere and the Shakespeare Quartos (Part I) by Robert Brazil; Abstract & Brief Chronicles: The Sonnets seen as Shakespeare’s true testimony about the end of the Tudor era by Hank Whittemore; Follow-up to Harper’s, Chronicle of Higher Education stories; Obituaries: Clifton Fadiman, J. Allan Hovey, Jr.; Shakespeare and religion: To be or not to be… a secret Catholic; Meet the new Shakespeare?; Thomas of Woodstock – a “prequel” to Richard II? by Mark K. Anderson; Adventures of a Contestant by C.V.Berney; Bacon begs the two Henries as First Folio appears by Peter W. Dickson; Bacon’s letters to Oxford and Southampton; Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink: “What Author Would Conceal His Name?” by J ames Fitzgerald; Another View of Sonnet 20 by Robert R. Prechter, Jr.; Oxfordian News; Book Reviews: Robert Nye’s The Late Mr. Shakespeare: A Novel by Richard F. Whalen; Remarks on Castiglione ‘s Il Cortegiano as Applicable to the Authorship Question by Richard Desper; From the Editor: Shakespeare, Southampton and The Sonnets; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 35, No. 1: Spring 1999

Contents: Shakespeare’s King John: A story of rightful identity and eyes to see by Dr. Ren Draya; Moment of truth: Harper’s Magazine folio articles expose the hollow center of the Stratfordian paradigm by Mark K. Anderson;  Shakespeare’s invention: the royal story of The Sonnets – Hank Whittemore makes his case; Harper’s story generates commentary, coverage; Chronicle of Higher Education weighs in; 3rd Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference at Concordia; Are British scholars erasing two heroic earls from Jacobean history to protect the Shakespeare industry? A case study in how history is written by Peter W. Dickson; Oxford and Palamon and Arcite: Could this 1566 play actually be an early work by Edward de Vere? by KatherineChiljan; Oxfordian News; Book Reviews: David Honneyman’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Court of Navarre by Ramon L. Jimenez; Marjorie Garber’s Symptoms of Culture by Richard F. Whalen; From the Editor: The Invisible Men; Letters to the Editor

1998

Vol. 34, No. 4: Winter 1998

Contents: 22nd Annual Conference Report San Francisco; Teaching the next generation that Oxford was Shakespeare: How educator Robert Barrett is shaking up the status quo in the state of Washington by Roger Stritmatter; Shakespeare Everywhere; Yes, But, is Authorship Dead? The Folger reports on George Greenwood vs. Mark Twain by Richard F. Whalen; Hollywood’s the thing … Public’s Elizabethan consciousness piqued by new films by Gerit Quealy; Interview with Bob Barrett; The Jaggard-Herbert-de Vere Connections (1619-1623) by Peter W. Dickson; Oxfordian News; Did Shakespeare stop writing in 1604? Book Reviews: Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Richard F. Whalen; Revisiting “Apis Lapis” by Mark K. Anderson; From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 34, No. 3: Fall 1998

Contents: Henry Peacham on Oxford and Shakespeare Is the scholar s 1622 decision unimpeachable testimony for Oxford as Shakespeare? by Peter W. Dickson; Charlton Ogburn, 1911-1998 by Richard F. Whalen; Followup: the First Folio and the Spanish Marriage Crisis; 22nd Annual Conference in San Francisco draws record attendance; Announcing THE OXFORDIAN; The Wardship of Henry Bullock: In 1581 the ward Edward de Vere once sought to administer a wardship by Katherine Chiljan; Losing Voice; Losing Face; Gaining Vision: Remembering an author and thinker whose salad days have only begun by Mark K. Anderson; Oxford’s Literary Reputation in the 17th and 1 8th Centuries; ” Publish We This Peace . . . ” A note on the design of the Shakespeare First Folio and the Spanish Marriage Crisis by Roger Stritmatter; “Bestow how, and when you list” Susan Vere, William Jaggard and the 1623 Shakespeare Folio by Roger Stritmatter; Oxfordian News; Sex, Lies and Psalm 51 by Mark K. Anderson; Book Reviews: Ron Allen’s Who Were Shakespeare? The ultimate who-dun-it by Charles Boyle; Jonathan Bate’s The Genius of Shakespeare by Richard F. Whalen; From the Editor: “The oldest hath borne the Most” Letters to the Editor

Vol. 34, No. 2: Summer 1998

Contents: Shaking the Spear at Court: Oxford as “The Knight of the Tree of the Sunne” by Dr. Daniel L. Wright; Shakespeare’s Son on Death Row? Spanish ambassador s letter makes it clear that 18th Earl s life may have hung in the balance as the First Folio was rushed to completion; “By this Hat, then … ” New Evidence about the 1580s “Portrait of a Gentleman JJby Katherine Chiljan; A Catholic Shakespeare … training as a Priest? 22ndAnnual Conference, November 12th to 15th; Count Gondomar’s letter to the King of Spain, 16 May 1622; Justice Stevens casts deciding vote for Oxford in an Oxfordian victory at D.C. authorship trial by Aaron Tatum; 2nd Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference; “The Queen ‘s Worm” in Antony and Cleopatra: Does another of Shakespeare/Oxford ‘s word games clarify an enigmatic scene? b y Richard Whalen;  Oxfordian News; Unexpected help from Neil Simon by Pamela Bowen; The Zen of Shake-speare by Mark K. Anderson; Book Reviews: Doris Alexander’s Creating Literature Out of Life: The Malting of Four Masterpieces by Richard F. Whalen; From the Editor: To be or not to be … evident; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 34, No. 1: Spring 1998

Contents: A Society of Secrets: How the Elizabethan Era still confounds us today by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes; Ciphers, codes, and the authorship debate: Shortcut to the truth, or fatal attraction? Russian says Earl of Rutland was Shakespeare; Washington researcher offers new theory on Folio publication and the authorship; English Oxfordian finds Southampton, De Vere in the Sonnets; 21st Annual Conference – Followup Report; E L Oxon By James Fitzgerald; A London Visitor’s Homage to Edward de Vere by KeithD. Jewell; Oxfordian News; Sonnets are Stratfordian Achilles ‘ heel by Joseph Sobran; The Art of The Art of Shakespeare s Sonnets by Mark K. Anderson; Book Reviews: Three editions of the Sonnets: Katherine Duncan-Jones: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, G. Blakemore Evans: The Sonnets,  Helen Vendler’s The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets –  All Reviewed by Richard F. Whalen; From the Editor: The tactics of the authorship debate; Letters to the Editor

1997

Vol. 33, No. 3-4: Fall 1997

Contents: Enter Ben Jonson by James Fitzgerald; 21st Annual Conference in Seattle; Obituary: Morse Johnson 1915-1997; The Cause in is My Will by Randall Sherman; Master F.W.D., R.I.P. by John Rollet; A Monumental Problem by Richard F. Whalen; Oxfordian News; Beauty and “Bottom’s Dream” by Mark K. Anderson; Book Reviews; From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 33, No. 2: Spring 1997

Contents: Shakespeare’s Disgrace by Joseph Sobran; Meet the New Bard by Mark K. Anderson; Two Tales of our Times; Charles Burford Resigns as Society President, Randall Sherman Elected to Complete his Term; Reinventing the Professoriate by Roger Stritmatter; Oxford Week Spreads the Word by Katherine Chiljan and Walter Hurst; Concordia University Opens Door to Oxford; The Oxford Street Players by Dr. Anne Pluto; Oxfordian News; Shakespeare, Oxford, and Du Bartas: A Follow Up by James Fitzgerald; Book Reviews;  From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 33, No. 1: Winter 1997

Contents: Shakespeare, Oxford, and Du Bartas by James Fitzgerald; Writing History; 21st Annual Conference Announcement; Branagh’s Sound & Fury by Charles Burford; Society Library has a Home; Funeral Elegy: Proof for Oxford? By Dick Desper; Of Standins, Pseudonyms, Mummings, and Disguisings by Stephanie Hughes; News from England; Oxfordian News; A New Portrait Comes to Light by Katherine Chiljan;   Book Reviews;  From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

1996

Vol. 32, No. 4: Fall 1996

Contents: Oxford’s Metamorphoses: How Oxford adapted Ovid’s tales may be a key to understanding his life and Works by Hank Whittemore; 20th Annual Conference Marks Turning Point: Elizabethan, authorship and Society politics converge in Minneapolis; Mark Rylance stirs up the Globe; Charles Boyle on the Mend; Reporting his Cause through Local Chapters by Randall Sherman and Katherine Chiljan; Shakespeare and the Fair Youth Panel; Shakespeare’s Bible Brings Truth to Light: Conference Seminar Reports on Work-in-Progress on Edward de Vere’s Bible by Mark K. Anderson; Oxfordian News: Shakespeare performed at Hedingham Castle; new authorship documentary planned in Austria; authorship courses in Oregon; John Louther Reports; Book Reviews: Harold M. Otness’ The Shakespeare Folio Handbook and Census by Carol Sue Lipman; From the Editor: Who Won, and Why?; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 32, No. 3: Summer 1996

Contents: Conference Update: Oxford in Minnesota; The State of the Debate: As the Internet grows, the authorship battle must be fought and refought every day; In the New York Times, it’s “All the News that fits … “; … While in The Washington Post it’s “persistent idiocy”; This Star of England: Some Historical Notes on its publication and authors Charlton and Dorothy Ogburn by Charlton Ogburn, Jr.; The Tempest and the Bermuda Shipwreck of 1609 by Peter Moore; How Are the Mighty Fallen? by Charles Burford; The Marketing of a Paradigm Shift by Randall Sherman; Of ”’Em’s” and “Them’s” Do these two words reveal an important clue in the Elegy debate? by Stephanie Caruana; What’s in a Name? by C.V. Berney; The Phaeton Sonnet by Joseph Sobran; Oxfordian News: Authorship in the Classroom at Cleveland State; Authorship debate on Australian Radio; John Louther Reports; William Byrd: Songs, Dances, Battles, Games: Carolyn Kunin reviews the new CD performed by Society Trustee Sally Mosher; Music Named for Edward de Vere by Sally Mosher; Book Reviews: Russ McDonald’s The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents reviewed by Richard Whalen; The Riverside Guide to Writing features authorship question; From the Editor: 20th Annual Conference; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 32, No. 2: Spring 1996

Contents: Oxford, the Order of The Garter, and Shame by Peter R. Moore; Authorship Fireworks at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress: Reception, Seminars make an impact; Events at the World Shakespeare Congress: Visions, revisions and a premature death by Carol Boettger; Obituary: Samuel Schoenbaum 1927-1996; Lessons from a Seminar by Charles Boyle; Minneapolis Conference: full slate of events set; John Price sues Shakespeare Oxford Society; The Board of Trustees votes in a new era: fundraising now the key by Charles Burford; Funeral Elegy: An update –  Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes Yet? by Stephanie Caruana; The debate heats up on the Web; Globe Theater’s Mark: Rylance latest to sign Authorship Petition; Oxfordian News: Nelson-Chiljan debate in San Francisco; “Shaksper” dethroned at Shakespeare Duel in Michigan; Annual Oxford Day Banquet in Boston; John Louther Reports; Shakespeare and the Politics of Protestant England by Charles Boyle; Book Reviews by Richard Whalen: Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography by Peter Martin; From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

Vol. 32, No. 1: Winter 1996

Contents: The Problem of The Funeral Elegy by Joseph Sobran; To Our Members: From New President Charles Vere; World Shakespeare Congress to be held in Los Angeles; That Way Madness Lies: Elegy Conference in LA still leaves questions by Carol Boettger; Oxford prevails in NYC Bar Association debate; 19th Annual Conference in Greensboro, NC; 20th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Oct. 10-13; Prince Charles’ Views by Charles Vere; A Little More than Kuhn, And Less than Kind: Examining the headlines with The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in Mind By Mark Anderson; British actor Sir Derek Jacobi is latest to sign Society petition on authorship; Shakespeare on the Internet: 1995 a landmark year as discussion group grows and Home Page is opened; Oxfordian News: Ruth Loyd Miller honored in Louisiana; Horatio Society founded in San Francisco; Northeast Chapter resumes monthly meetings; John Louther Reports; Authorship Down Under: Pat Buckridge launches one man publicity campaign in Australia; Book Reviews by Richard Whalen: Shakespeare, A Life in Drama by Stanley Wells; Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court 1603-1613 by Alvin Kernan; Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber; From the Editor; Letters to the Editor

 


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