New videos from the 2023 Conference available
January 16, 2024
The SOF held its 2023 Annual Conference November 9-12 in New Orleans. More than 100 people attended live and many more joined us via livestream.
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Bob Meyers interviews Ron Destro
January 12, 2024
Ron Destro is an acclaimed actor, director and teacher whose recently published, award winning, fast-paced and entertaining historical novel The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne:
Blue Boar Tavern with Roger Stritmatter on January 9th
January 2, 2024
“Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.” – Comedy of Errors Despite 400 years of searching, no letters, manuscripts, plays, poems, notes or
2023 Conference videos posted
December 29, 2023
The SOF held its 2023 Annual Conference November 9-12 in New Orleans. More than 100 people attended live and many more joined us via livestream.
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December 15, 2023
Thinking of giving Elizabeth Winkler’s Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature as a
A Hedingham Castle video
December 8, 2023
SOF member Paul Bredderman Sr. sent a videolink featuring Hedingham Castle in Essex, the birthplace of Edward de Vere: “I bring this video to the
An interview with Diana Price
December 1, 2023
Diana Price’s groundbreaking “Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem,” originally published in 2001, was “the first book to undertake a systematic comparative
The SBT’s view of the Shakespeare signatures
November 29, 2023
On their Shakespeare’s Signature page the The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) says There is ongoing discussion amongst scholars as to whether all of these six
New York Public Library conversation now online
November 24, 2023
On October 24th the New York Public Library sponsored a conversation presented by the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, featuring Professor William Leahy, Dr. Ros Barber, &
A holiday season Blue Boar Tavern
November 21, 2023
On December 5 at 8 pm Easter/ 5 pm Pacific, the Blue Boar Tavern is inviting YOU to grab a glass of your favorite beverage
An interview with Michael Dudley
November 17, 2023
Shakespearean scholar, University of Winnipeg librarian and newest SOF Board member Michael Dudley talks with Bob Meyers about his new book, which takes a philosophical
William Boyle: 2023 Oxfordian of the Year
November 14, 2023
It is with the greatest pleasure that the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship announces that Bill Boyle is 2023’s Oxfordian of the Year. William E. Boyle, or
How I Became an Oxfordian – Jack Shuttleworth
November 10, 2023
Jack M. Shuttleworth, Ph.D. Brigadier General, USAF (ret.) Professor of English, Emeritus, USAF Academy The short version: I became an Oxfordian because Susanna and
First Folio turns 400
November 8, 2023
The First Folio, “the book that brought us Shakespeare,” was published 400 years ago today. This first collection of 36 Shakespeare plays included 18 that
Shakespeare’s medical knowledge
November 3, 2023
In the 2000 edition of The Oxfordian, Frank M. Davis, M.D., wrote this comprehensive article on medical knowledge revealed in Shakespeare’s plays. His interest in
Cracking Open the First Folio – Blue Boar Tavern encore video
November 1, 2023
Happy Folio 400! November 8, 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the First Folio’s publication. Ever since 1623, Shakespeare enthusiasts have been discussing this book’s
