Mark Twain and “Shake-Speare”: Soul Mates
January 6, 2017
James Norwood One of the hallmarks of Mark Twain was irreverence. His first major publication, The Innocents Abroad, called into question the high culture of
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SHAKESPEARE IN COMPOSITION
November 14, 2016
Evidence for Oxford’s Authorship of “The Book of Sir Thomas More” by Fran Gidley The play Sir Thomas More survived its obscure Elizabethan origins to
Editorial: Midnight in the Garden of the SAQ
October 22, 2016
By Dr. Michael Egan Readers will know that Shakespeare Beyond Doubt contributor, Hardy Cook, also runs SHAKSPER, an online discussion group. Recently the issue of
Oxfordians Spreading Authorship Doubts at First Folio Tour
September 6, 2016
Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship members have been distributing flyers questioning the traditional authorship theory at institutions and events connected to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2016 national First
The Oxfordian Era on the Supreme Court
August 30, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936–2016), Justice John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), and Other Authorship Skeptics on America’s Highest Court by Bryan H. Wildenthal Published on the SOF website
Remembering Rollett and Debunking Shapiro (Again)
July 13, 2016
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
An Hour With Wells and Edmondson
August 17, 2015
Note from the Editor By Alex McNeil I hope you’ll read with care the interview, conducted by Don Rubin and Patricia Keeney, with Stanley Wells
‘Thy Stratford Moniment’ – Revisited
March 13, 2015
Holistic Interpretation by Alexander Waugh This article was first published in the De Vere Society Newsletter, October 2014. It is here presented, in a version
The Latin Inscription on the Stratford Shakespeare Monument Unraveled
March 1, 2015
Its Bearing on the Stratfordian Controversy by Jack A. Goldstone* The Shakespeare monument in Stratford-upon-Avon is frequently cited as one of the clearest pieces of
Was Actor Edward Alleyn the Real “Upstart Crow”?
February 28, 2015
February 28, 2015 — Stratfordian professors have long claimed that a passage in Robert Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance (1592)
Shakespeare Full Circle
February 22, 2015
by Nate Briggs (from the Winter 2015 Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter) Seeing a recent local production of Much Ado About Nothing brought me back to the
William Shakspere — The Irrelevant Life
July 6, 2014
by Richard Malim of The De Vere Society. ‘Any man who believes that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote Hamlet or Lear is a fool.’ –
2012 Winning Essay by Jacob Karlsson Lagerros
September 9, 2013
Bringing Truth to Light – Why it Matters Who Wrote William’s Words by Jacob Karlsson Lagerros According to the legend, Richard Burbage, the most famous
Ten Eyewitnesses Who Saw Nothing: Shakespeare in Stratford and London
September 8, 2011
by Ramon Jiménez It is well-known that the first references in print that seemed to connect William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon to the playwright William Shakespeare
The Case for Oxford Revisited
September 1, 2011
by Ramon Jiménez In his biography of William Shakespeare, the critic Sir Jonathan Bate wrote: “Gathering what we can from his plays and poems: that
Who Was Spencer’s EK: Was He the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford?
July 3, 2011
by Nina Green First published in the 1998 edition of The Oxfordian Scholars have never satisfactorily identified the mysterious individual known only as E.K. who
