New Haven Conference Talks on YouTube
November 26, 2025
The SOF has started releasing on its YouTube channel a selection of talks presented at the 2025 Annual Conference. The first batch includes the keynote
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Earl Showerman: Oxfordian of the Year
November 5, 2025
Earl Showerman, M.D., longtime scholar, teacher, and leader in the Shakespeare authorship field (and SOF President, 2022–24), was honored on September 20, 2025, as Oxfordian
Blue Boar Tavern Tonight: What Do We Really Know?
November 4, 2025
“Then take him up and manage well the jest. Carry him gently to my fairest chamber And hang it round with all my wanton pictures.
Blue Boar Tavern Nov. 4: Mark Your Calendars!
October 28, 2025
“Then take him up and manage well the jest. Carry him gently to my fairest chamber And hang it round with all my wanton pictures.
Renaissance Quarterly Reviews Sky Gilbert Book
October 7, 2025
Professor Sky Gilbert’s recent book, Shakespeare Lied, was published by Guernica Editions in September 2024 (available from the publisher and on Amazon). A review by
“Bringing Down the Courses”: Fennel, Angelica and Abortifacients in Early Modern England
October 3, 2025
by Dorothea Dickerman “Madam, I sent yesterday of my water to my Lord for my Lady Oxford. Methinks there is some doubt made of it
The New Haven Annual Conference
September 29, 2025
The 13th Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Annual Conference was held in New Haven, Connecticut, on September 18–21, 2025. The theme was “Women and the Authorship Question.”
Shakespeare Illuminated Returns
September 9, 2025
Shakespeare Illuminated episodes Zoomed live last year will be posted henceforth on Professor Michael Delahoyde’s new YouTube channel. The second episode of that series, Julius
SOF Launches Official Online Merch Shop!
September 2, 2025
Want to show off your Oxfordian pride? Phoebe Nir and Lyle Colombo have created a line of SOF logo merch featuring a wide variety of
A Reasonable Doubt presentation
August 29, 2025
On Wednesday September 3 at 5:00pm PT/8:00 ET, SOF Trustee Tom Woosnam will be presenting an argument for Reasonable Doubt on the Morristown, Summit and
We’ve added two new features
August 27, 2025
Look for “Teacher Resources” under the “Discover Shakespeare” tab at the top of this page where we’re helping high school teachers teach the Shakespeare Authorship
Summer SOF Newsletter
August 26, 2025
Volume 61, No. 3: Summer 2025 is now available for members only. Click here. Members can find the password by clicking on the red “My
Blue Boar Tavern Tonight: Elizabethan Letter Writing
August 18, 2025
“Our letters, madam, show’d much more than jest.” Love’s Labor’s Lost, V.ii Letter writing (among the literate) was
The Oxfordian 2025 is Now Available
August 15, 2025
The 27th issue of The Oxfordian – the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship – is now available on the SOF website for
Blue Boar Tavern Aug. 18: Mark Your Calendars!
August 11, 2025
“Our letters, madam, show’d much more than jest.” Love’s Labor’s Lost, V.ii Letter writing (among the literate) was
Richard Kennedy
August 9, 2025
Our Oxfordian community has lost another long-time player from the great stage of life – a real maverick. Richard Kennedy passed away recently at age
