Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Regnier Named 2016 Oxfordian of the Year SOF President Tom Regnier and immediate past president John Hamill received awards at the SOF Annual Conference in
The SOF has created a Speakers Bureau — over 30 people who are willing and able to give live introductory Shakespeare Authorship Question (SAQ) talks
“The absence of the author has brought about an absolute tragedy . . . .” by Theresa Lauricella Award-winning poet Chris Pannell, editor of The
Tom Regnier has been selected by the Dade County (Florida) Bar Association to speak on “Hamlet and the Law of Homicide” as part of the DCBA’s
July 13, 2016 Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal of Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, in “Remembering Rollett and Debunking Shapiro (Again),” an article
by Bryan H. Wildenthal July 13, 2016 On June 29, 2016, the New York Times once again gave a platform to a Stratfordian academic to
On May 12 of this year, the SOF posted a news item on this website, “SOF Responds to Omission of Authorship Book from Mark Twain
Professor David Gontar has traveled far from the beaten path. He teaches at Inner Mongolia University in China, as distant from American academe as an airplane can reach…
In his opening paragraph, James Ross describes John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, as “the last great medieval nobleman.” He continues…
Colin Burrow, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has written widely on the relationship between Renaissance literature and the classics. In his most extended study of this subject, Shakespeare & Classical Antiquity, he argues that “Shakespeare knew …
Independent Shakespeare scholar Maria Hablevych has recently published The Light of Shakespeare’s Temple: Articles, Translations, a collection of her Shakespearean scholarship in Ukrainian. The book
Astrologer Priscilla Costello, who spoke at the SOF’s 2013 conference, will launch her new book, Shakespeare and the Stars: The Hidden Astrological Keys to Understanding
Kirill Shatilov, who has translated Romeo and Juliet into Russian, has now also translated Mark Twain’s anti-Stratfordian romp Is Shakespeare Dead? into Russian. The Kindle book
To evaluate Ver, begin and the challenge it represents for modern Shakespearean scholarship, we revisit an imperative written by J. Thomas Looney:
We shall first have to dissociate from the [canon] writings the conception of such an author as the steady, complacent, business-like man-of-the-world suggested by the Stratford Shakspere. …
The Sonnets consist of “love poetry that is as passionate, daring, intimate, searing, and lyrical as any that we may ever encounter,” Rudenstine writes, adding that the poems are “more carefully ordered—as a coherent sequence” than most commentators allow, and that “some of the clusters of linked sonnets seem so tightly bound together”
The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship recently objected to the current omission of Mark Twain’s masterpiece of Shakespeare authorship skepticism, Is Shakespeare Dead? from the University of California
