Vladimir Nabokov and William Shakespeare
Questions have been raised from time to time as to why Oxfordians claim that Vladimir Nabokov doubted the Stratford story… after all, the argument goes, there is no clear indication in his works, nor in his biography. As it turns out, we were privileged ten years ago (1990) to publish in the Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter an obscure 1924 Nabokov poem — translated by his son in 1988 — that should, once and for all, settle any doubts about Nabokov’s Stratford doubts.