All back issues of the Elizabethan Review, published by Gary Goldstein from 1993 to 1999, are now freely available for download on the SOF website. They join back issues of other past authorship publications, including available newsletters of the British “Shakespeare Fellowship” (1937–58), the (first) American “Shakespeare Fellowship” (1939–48), the online magazine Ever Reader (1995–2000), and Shakespeare Matters (newsletter of the American “Shakespeare Fellowship” of 2001–13).
To browse all publications available on the SOF website, click here.
Goldstein founded the the Elizabethan Review as a semi-annual journal in the spring of 1993 because there were then no peer-reviewed scholarly journals publishing Oxfordian research on the Shakespeare authorship question. The journal was published from 1993 to 1999, a total of 13 issues. It contains not only research papers but also essays, short notes, and book reviews on topics covering the full spectrum of the English Renaissance, including articles by Warren Hope, Diana Price, John Rollett, Roger Parisious, Richard Desper, Peter Dickson, Noemi Magri, Peter Moore, and W. Ron Hess, among many others.
The World Shakespeare Bibliography, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature all agreed to index the contents of the Review. Fifty colleges and universities subscribed to it, including Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and other leading institutions.
When The Oxfordian began publication in 1998, submissions to the Review declined so that it became difficult to sustain its publication. So in the autumn of 1999, Goldstein stopped publishing the journal. In 2018, Goldstein became editor of The Oxfordian.
The Elizabethan Review‘s new home on the SOF website means its research will be freely available to everyone interested in the period and especially in the Oxfordian theory. Having these articles available is a great research tool for authorship scholars. Many thanks to Gary Goldstein for allowing us to post these articles and to Lucinda Foulke for posting them!
[published Jan. 24, 2020, updated 2021]
