In the first issue of Apostrophe, a new publication from the University of South Carolina in Beaufort, editor Sheila Tombe talks with Charlton Ogburn about his life-long mission to convince the world of the Edward de Vere’s authorship of the Shakespeare Canon.
Charlton Ogburn, Jr. responds to Sobran’s “Shakespeare’s Disgrace” by noting that the homosexual theory doesn’t measure up either to Oxford’s known life, or to what is revealed of the author in all the Shakespeare plays. He considers instead that the controversial alternate theory to the relationship between Shakespeare/Oxford and Southampton (i.e. that they may have been family) is more likely to explain the authorship mystery and the need for preserving his mature works under the “Shake-speare” pseudonym.
by Charlton Ogburn Jr. This essay was posted on the Shakespeare Oxford Society (now SOF) website on September 9, 2005, and represents an enlightening summary
book review by Roger Stritmatter John Michell, Who Wrote Shakespeare? (London: Thames & Hudson, 1996). This review was originally published in the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter,
