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					<description><![CDATA[Jack M. Shuttleworth, Ph.D. Brigadier General, USAF (ret.) Professor of English, Emeritus, USAF Academy &#160; The short version: I became an Oxfordian because Susanna and Judith Shaksper were illiterate. The idea that the great author who created, clearly admired, maybe adored, articulate, bright, witty women would not educate his own daughters made the whole Stratfordian [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Jens Münnichow is a historian and German philologist, lives in a small town in the Mannheim/Heidelberg region of Southern Germany and works as a tutor. Since I was born, raised and schooled in Germany, it was by no means natural for me to get in contact with Shakespeare. In Germany, he isn’t a national hero [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Born in London into crime and poverty, Katherine began the long climb to education as a mature adult, gaining a BA in Fine Art at the age of 30. She worked first as a journalist, then switched to education and high-school teaching with the advent of parenthood. Her only novel, Dance for Your Daddy, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Diana Reynolds Roome is an award-winning writer and editor and a former editor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for academic papers and case studies. ————————————————————— My first hazy doubts about William Shakespeare’s identity came about due to my intense devotion to the Stratford Bard. I was seventeen and managed to get a summer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Mark Jackson was a marine insurance broker, sailor, and cyclist from Seattle. He was one of the founding members of the Seattle Shakespeare Oxford Society (SSOS).  Before his passing in 2018, he recounted his HIBAO story to friend and fellow SSOS member Kathryn Sharpe. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; I became an Oxfordian in 1990 by accident, due to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[December 3, 2021 As a man who loved the power of words, David Lloyd Kreeger was attracted to “the profundity of Shakespeare’s understanding of human nature in all its strengths and glory, its weaknesses and vices.” He recognized the playwright’s profound understanding of the law and other disciplines. At 81, the industrialist and philanthropist continued [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[August 2, 2021 When I was ten, my mother took me to Franco Zeffirelli’s ground-breaking Romeo and Juliet on the big screen. I begged for the film’s album and memorized every line. Then I discovered that my local public library had Old Vic recordings of Shakespeare’s plays. One by one, I carted the weighty three-record [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[July 6, 2021 My affinity for Shakespeare began when I was eight years old, while visiting Anne Hathaway’s cottage, where I purchased a small leather-bound book, Tales From Shakespeare for young readers, by Charles and Mary Lamb, and also “Shakespeare’s Birthday Book” with quotes from the Bard for each day of the year. My birthday, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2021 I’ve taught Shakespeare for almost three decades. I’ve strutted the stage in live Shakespeare productions. I’ve shepherded dozens of students through the tourist sites in Stratford-upon-Avon. Park Honan, traditional Shakespeare biographer, was my thesis adviser at the University of Leeds. In other words, the Stratfordian force was strong with this one. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[January 19, 2021 When I read about how others became Oxfordians, I’m always surprised how people know so clearly. My experience was a slower evolution. As an English literature graduate of Oxford University, of course I studied Shakespeare, but naturally we didn&#8217;t talk about the man, only his works — in total contrast to every [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[December 8, 2020 I had help becoming an Oxfordian. My father, a hard-headed businessman, was interested in the authorship question. I remember at an early age finding a copy of Calvin Hoffman’s The Murder of the Man Who Was “Shakespeare” on our bookshelves. But the point was never pressed, either by my dad, or later, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[November 24, 2020 &#8220;Who cares,&#8221; right? Through high school and college, I became reasonably educated in the literature of Shakespeare. My primary major in college was Comparative Literature, and my Shakespeare professor was an avid Stratfordian. All my other classes were in the sciences, especially biology. I attended medical school and was steeped in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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