The 2015 Shakespeare Authorship Conference took place September 24-27 at the Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, OR.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, 24 September
8:00 – 12:00 Conference Registration Opens
9:00 – 12:00 Exhibit of Folio Editions at Hannon Library of Southern Oregon University
10:00 – 12:00 Screening of Nothing Is Truer than Truth at Ashland Springs Hotel Ballroom – Cheryl Eagan-Donovan
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (on own)
1:00 – 1:15 Welcome, Introductions and Orientation
1:15 – 2:00 Julia Cleave: Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Case of the Bassano Fresco
2:00 – 2:45 Jan Scheffer: Oxford’s Capture by Pirates, April 1576
2:24 – 3:00 Coffee/Tea Break
3:00 – 3:45 Heward Wilkinson: Did We Mislay Hamlet’s ‘as ’twere’ on the Way to the Authorship Amphitheatre?
3:45 – 4:30 Don Rubin: Methinks the Man: Peter Brook and the Authorship Question
4:30 – 5:00 Alexander Waugh & Roger Stritmatter: A New Shakespeare Allusion Book
5:00 – 5:30 Shakespeare Identified 100
5:30 – 7:30 Opening Reception with No-Host Bar and Appetizers
8:00 – 10:40 Much Ado about Nothing (Bowmer Theatre – separate ticket purchase required)
Friday, 25 September
8:00 – 8:30 William J. Ray: The Droeshout Etching as a Revolutionary Renaissance Work of Art
8:30 – 9:15 Robert Prechter: Why Did Robert Greene Repent His Former Works?
9:15 – 10:00 Margrethe Jolly: Juliet and the Grafter
10:00 – 10:15 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Research Grants Report
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 – 11:30 OSF Actor Panel: Much Ado about Nothing
11:30 – 12:15 Ros Barber: Shakespeare: The Evidence
12:15 – 1:30 Buffet Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 Alexander Waugh: ‘Vulgar Scandal’ Mentioned in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
2:15 – 3:00 Michael Morse: “Such virtue hath my pen”: Onomastic Wit and Revelatory Wordplay in Shake-speare’s Sonnets
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee/Tea Break
3:15 – 4:15 Michael Delahoyde: Antony & Cleopatra
4:15 – 5:00 Richard Whalen: The Queen’s ‘Worm’ in Antony and Cleopatra
5:00 – 5:30 Julia Cleave: Antony and Cleopatra as Chymical Theatre
5:30 Adjourn
8:00 – 11:00 Antony and Cleopatra (Allen Elizabethan Theatre – separate ticket purchase required)
Saturday, 26 September
8:00 – 9:30 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Annual Membership Meeting
9:30 – 10:15 Mark Anderson: Shapiro Agonistes—Why James Shapiro’s claims of a Jacobean phase to Shakespeare’s career are wrong
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 – 11:30 OSF Actor Panel – Antony & Cleopatra
11:30 – 12:15 Kevin Gilvary: Who Wrote Shakespeare’s First Biography?
12:15 – 1:30 Buffet Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 Katherine Chiljan: Origins of the Shakespeare Pen Name
2:15 – 3:00 Roger Stritmatter: The Theology of Pericles
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee/Tea break
3:15 – 4:00 Wally Hurst: Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Its Authorship, The Question of Collaboration, and its Place in the Shakespearean Canon
4:00 – 4:45 Earl Showerman: Pericles: Shakespeare’s Early Tragi-Comedic Miracle Play
4:45 – 5:30 Ren Draya: Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Music, Structure, and Fantasy
5:30 Adjourn
7:30 – 10:30 Screening of BBC Pericles in Ashland Springs Ballroom (available for those who will not be attending the live theatrical performance)
8:00 – 10:30 Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Thomas Theatre – separate ticket purchase required)
Sunday, 27 September
8:00– 8:45 John Shahan: Shakespeare Authorship Coalition Update
8:45 – 9:30 James Warren: Oxfordian Theory and Academia: Past, Future and Present
9:30 – 10:15 Tom Regnier: The Law of Evidence and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
10:15 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 – 11:30 OSF Actor Panel – Pericles
11:30 – 12: 30 Legitimizing the SAQ Panel: Tom Regnier, Wally Hurst, James Warren, and John Shahan
12:30 – 2:00 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Awards Banquet – Keynote: Mark Anderson
