A brand new edition of An Index to Oxfordian Publications, edited by James Warren, was released on September 10. This Fifth Edition is a complete index to more than 12,000 articles, commentaries, reviews, letters, books, pamphlets and audio-visual productions addressing the Oxfordian theory that have been published during the 103 years since it was introduced by J. Thomas Looney in “Shakespeare” Identified in 1920. The Fifth Edition of An Index to Oxfordian Publications is available on Amazon.
In addition to its author and title indexes, this volume reprints the tables of contents for all periodicals issued by Oxfordian and selected other authorship organizations, past and present, and provides listings for more than 3,600 articles published in non-Oxfordian periodicals (such as The Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement). It also lists more than 500 non-fiction books of special interest for those investigating the Oxfordian idea, as well as more than 100 works – novels, plays, musicals, song cycles and so on – inspired by the idea that Edward de Vere was the real “Shakespeare.”
The new edition includes some 3,000 items added since the Fourth Edition was published in 2017. In addition to Oxfordian items published since then, these include more than 2,000 older items uncovered by editor James Warren during five research trips to the United Kingdom beginning in 2018. As he explained after the release of the volume, “I now feel like a free man, having worked on the Index ten hours a day, every day, for four months to add the new listings gathered over the last six years. The five editions over the past dozen years have cost me more than 8,000 hours of my life. I hope it will be as useful for others as I know it will be for me.”
