Largest-Ever Issue Contains Major New Discoveries The largest issue ever published of the SOF annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal, The Oxfordian, has been published. It contains
Why the Prince Royal Did Not Inspire The Tempest — Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director and Stratfordian, Gregory Doran, believes he has found the ship
This article from the Summer 1998 Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter gives an introduction and brief overview of researcher Peter Dickson’s startling, provocative theory about the true political-historical context surrounding the publication of the First Folio, namely that the publication occurred in the midst of a major –but now all but forgotten– historic event: the Spanish Marriage Crisis. Dickson makes a strong case that the First Folio publication project must have been connected with –and influenced by– this political crisis. Such a connection –if borne out over time– could change forever all Shakespearean scholarship (Stratfordian and anti-Stratfordian) on this critical period in English history.
