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
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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
A corner in the Folger Library’s year-old museum nods to the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
August 5, 2025
“When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness; And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault
New Haven Conference Announced
August 1, 2025
(For a full update on SOF conference news, as of November 6, 2025, with the conference schedule, brochure, and other information, please click here.) The
Blue Boar Tavern Tonight: Ben Jonson
July 29, 2025
“Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.” – Ben Jonson To be unaware of Ben Jonson, his relationship to the author known as
Mark your calendars for the next Blue Boar Tavern!
July 22, 2025
“Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.” – Ben Jonson To be unaware of Ben Jonson, his relationship to the author known as
2025 Board nominations
July 18, 2025
Under the SOF bylaws, the Nominations Committee (Brent Evans, Chair; Bonner Miller Cutting, Cheryl Eagan-Donovan) is responsible for nominating candidates for any new Board terms
Behind the Scenes returns!
July 14, 2025
In this latest episode of Bob Meyers’ popular interview series spotlighting the people behind the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, meet author, lecturer, and SOF trustee Dorothea Dickerman. Dorothea
Discounted New Haven Conference Booking Deadline Approaching
July 3, 2025
The deadline for discounted booking at the upcoming SOF Conference in New Haven is approaching quickly. Anyone booking on or before August 17 will save
Phoebe Nir interviews Earl Showerman About “Shakespeare’s Greater Greek”
June 27, 2025
Phoebe Nir sat down for a zoom interview with Dr. Showerman about his new book, “Shakespeare’s Greater Greek”, which is now live on her YouTube
Shakespeare Illuminated
June 24, 2025
We are bringing you up to date on the Shakespeare Illuminated project begun last year. Soon the original episodes will be available on Professor Michael Delahoyde’s own
Apply Now for an SOF Research Grant
June 20, 2025
To foster new and original research about Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and the Elizabethan Age as it relates to Edward de Vere’s
