Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference
October 17 – 20, 2019 | Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, Connecticut
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, October 16, 2019:
Attendees arriving in Hartford on Wednesday will have the option of touring the Twain House or the Harriet Beecher Stowe House (just next door) on that day and also a chance to attend a reading at the Stowe House. For complete information, click here.
Thursday, October 17, 2019:
12:45 – 1:00 Welcome and Announcements
1:00 – 1:30 Shelly Maycock: “Floating ‘the Sweet Swan of Avon’: An Oxfordian Reading of Jonson’s First Folio Metaphor”
1:30 – 2:00 Marty Hyatt: “A Mullet is Born”
2:00 – 2:45 Steven Sabel: “Shakespeare: Playwright and Stage Director – The Brilliance of the Bard’s Stage Directions to Actors”
2:45 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00 Heward Wilkinson: “Oxfordians Need to Become Post-Modernists”
4:00 – 4:45 William Boyle: “Why One Word, in One Sonnet, Matters”
4:45 – 5:30 Hank Whittemore: “The Launch of the Pen Name: Who Knew What and When?”
5:30 – 7:00 Opening Reception
Friday, October 18, 2019:
8:00 – 9:30 SOF Annual Meeting
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:15 Tribute to Ron Hess by Jan Scheffer
10:15 – 10:30 Tribute to Justice Stevens by Tom Regnier & Alex McNeil
10:30 – 10:40 Ben August: Some Words on de Vere’s Herodotus Volume
10:40 – 10:45 John Hamill: Update on Research Grant Program Results
10:45 – 11:15 Stephanie Hughes: “Why Is It Taking So Long to Get the Truth Out?”
11:15 – 12:15 James Warren: Keynote Address: “Reclaiming the Oxfordian Past”
12:15 – 2:15 Lunch (in lobby)
Tours of Twain House: 12:15, 12:25, 12:45, 12:55, 1:15, 1:25 (sign-up)
2:15 – 3:00 Sky Gilbert: “Double Falsehood: Was Shakespeare Don Quixote?”
3:00 – 3:45 James Norwood: “A New Way of Looking at Shakespeare’s Stagecraft”
3:45 – 4:30 Mark Anderson: “The Unlikely Bardographer”
4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Break
5:00 – 5:30 John Hamill: “Southampton and the Devereux Family”
5:30 – 6:15 Rick Waugaman: “Did Shakspere Write Shake-Speare? Internal and External Meanings of Pen Names”
6:15 – 7:00 Tom Regnier: What did Shakespeare mean by “Kill All the Lawyers”?
Saturday, October 19, 2019:
9:00 – 9:15 Announcements
9:15 – 10:45 Alice Eaton & Student Panel: “Teaching the Shakespeare Authorship”
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Roger Stritmatter: “‘O What a Tangled Web’: Oxfrauds, Misfits, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 21st Shakespearean Discourse”
11:45 – 12:30 Don Rubin: “The New ‘Field’ of Shakespeare Authorship Studies: A Critical Look at the Work of Taylor, Leahy, John Florio and Edward de Vere”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (in lobby)
1:30 – 2:00 Bryan Wildenthal: “Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubts”
2:00 – 2:45 Cheryl Eagan-Donovan: “The Lives of Poets in Late 16th and Early 17th Century London”
2:45 – 3:15 Ted Lange: “The Cause, My Soul, The Prequel to Othello”
3:15 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:15 Earl Showerman: “Shakespeare and the Greeks Revisited”
4:15 – 4:45 Marc Lauritsen: “Mapping the Authorship Arguments”
4:45 – 5:30 James Norwood: “Mark Twain and ‘Shake-Speare’- Soul Mates”
5:45 – 7:15 Reception: Build Your Own Baked Potato
7:30 – 9:30 Keir Cutler: “Is Shakespeare Dead?”
Sunday, October 20, 2019:
9:00 – 9:45 Bonner Cutting: “Connecting the Dots: How a man who could scarcely write his name became revered as the greatest writer in the English language”
9:45 – 10:30 Peter Dickson: “The Politics of Venus and Adonis”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 Robert Meyers: “Was It Really William?”
11:45 – 1:00 “Shakespeare” Identified 100 Session: Kathryn Sharpe, Linda Bullard, Heward Wilkinson, Earl Showerman; sneak preview of dramatic presentation; panel discussion on strategy with James Warren, Roger Stritmatter, and Bryan Wildenthal, moderated by Robert Meyers.
1:00 – 2:30 Banquet, Awards, and Open Mic
