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	<description>Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford</description>
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		<title>This Month in Oxfordian History – August</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sixteenth Century House Party By Sara Hill It’s August of 1561. Twenty-eight-year-old Queen Elizabeth is making her annual summer progress in the English countryside with her sprawling entourage of courtiers and servants. The throng eddies around Hedingham Castle in Essex, ancestral home of the de Vere family, for a five-day soirée, hosted by the current [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Order your De Vere merch for the Seattle Conference!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The apparel oft proclaims the man.” — Hamlet With the September conference fast approaching, now’s the time to visit the SOF merch shop and order your Edward de Vere finery! We have hats, shirts, bags, phone cases, thermoses, posters, and so much more! Order now so your Oxfordian swag will arrive for September! Visit the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earl Showerman—In Memoriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship is saddened to report the death of Earl Showerman on 2 August 2026. A prolific scholar, former SOF President, and 2025 Oxfordian of the Year, Earl was renowned in the authorship community as an energetic voice for the Oxfordian case, and for his original and groundbreaking research regarding Edward de Vere’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Speaks in the Text? A New Study Reopens the Shakespeare Authorship Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Erminia Passannanti’s latest book challenges long-held assumptions about Shakespeare, arguing that the traditional narrative may rest more on convention than on solid evidence. Who Speaks in the Text? A Comparative Study of Authorship and Authenticity in Shakespeare In her 2025 book, Erminia Passannanti argues that the Shakespeare–de Vere debate is a clear example of how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alex McNeil—In Memoriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our friend and colleague, Alex McNeil, passed away on July 13, 2026 following a long illness. The winner of two major awards from the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, Alex was a longstanding pillar of the Oxfordian movement, serving its organizations in multiple capacities while contributing significant scholarship and promoting the authorship question on YouTube and other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Seattle Conference Hamlet tickets now available!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Only 60 tickets available at the discounted price—reserve yours today! If you’ve been reading your SOF emails, you know that we just learned that a major new production of Hamlet produced by the Union Arts Center in Seattle will open the same day our conference begins. Because we were sure that many of our people would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Seeking Editor for the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, a U.S.- based non-profit, is seeking an editor for its quarterly newsletter. The Fellowship conducts and embraces research focused on Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, increasingly regarded as the true author of the works attributed to Shakespeare. The Newsletter serves as the Fellowship&#8217;s intellectual commons and living record—a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Schedule for the Seattle Conference now online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chock-A-Block Schedule for the Seattle Conference &#38; Other News “Places are filling up fast for the upcoming SOF annual conference in Seattle September 24-27,” according to Conference Chair Don Rubin. “The last four conferences have actually sold out in advance, so we urge everyone to register now through the SOF website. Don added that the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Month in Oxfordian History – July</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Merchant of Venice By Sara Hill One of 13 Shakespeare plays set in Italy, The Merchant of Venice was entered for publication at the London Stationers Register in the month of July 1598. Richard Paul Roe’s The Shakespeare Guide to Italy (2011) supports the contention that the author of the plays, whoever he was, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Policy Regarding Announcements of Member Publications and Creative Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship (“SOF”) is pleased to support awareness of completed scholarly and creative work by its members relating to Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, the Shakespeare Authorship Question, and related Elizabethan subjects. From time to time, the SOF may announce or promote qualifying member works through the SOF website, email [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shakespeare’s Effeminacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sky Gilbert is very proud to announce the publication of his new book Shakespeare’s Effeminacy, published by Edward Everett Root Co. Ltd. In Brighton, England, which is now for sale on Amazon. This book is of particular interest to Oxfordians because it takes for granted that Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford, who travelled to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Member News: Dr. Lyle Colombo&#8217;s Encryption Research Now Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lyle Jennings Colombo (Tulane University) has published What Counts as a Cipher? The Evolving Role of Shakespearean Paratexts in Cryptographic History in the Proceedings of The International Conference on Historical Cryptography. The article traces how the Baconian cipher controversies of the 19th and early 20th centuries shaped the modern definition of cryptography. Building on Alexander Waugh&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Month in Oxfordian History – June</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ Oxford’s £1,000 Annuity Four hundred and forty years ago this month, the Elizabethan Exchequer issued a Privy Seal warrant that has puzzled researchers for decades. The warrant, dated June 26, 1586, awarded Edward de Vere, “Erle of Oxford,” the annual sum of £1,000, the valuation of which ranges from a low of around $312,000 to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shakespeare Illuminated presents King Lear live</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Probably with more dysfunction than in your family and with crazier ranting than from your older relative, King Lear is the focus of our next Shakespeare Illuminated episode. Professor Emeritus Michael Delahoyde will provide the Oxfordian lens. We will stream live at 2:00 pm EDT / 11:00 am Pacific on June 7th: https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareIlluminated-oxford. A play [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Spring Newsletter is now available. Unlock your copy today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2026 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter has been published. SOF members have received the printed edition if they chose that option. All SOF members — and students signed up for free — have been emailed the password for online access. You too can gain access to this latest Newsletter (if you haven&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Boar Tavern Tonight! Tournaments, Jousting and Tilting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tournaments, Jousting and Tilting at the Blue Boar Tavern tonight! ’Twere good, I think your lordship sent him thither: There shall he practice tilts and tournaments, Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen. And be in eye of every exercise Worthy of his youth and nobleness of birth.   Two Gentlemen From Verona, I.iii Jousting, tilting, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Month in Oxfordian History – May</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Sonnets “Be not self-will&#8217;d, for thou art much too fair / To be death&#8217;s conquest and make worms thine heir.” —Sonnet 6 An entry for May 20, 1609, in the Elizabethan Stationers’ Register shows Thomas Thorpe’s intention to publish “a booke called Shakespeare’s sonnettes,” printed later that year. Today, after 417 years the authorship [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Boar Tavern May 28: Mark Your Calendars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tournaments, Jousting and Tilting at the Blue Boar Tavern! ’Twere good, I think your lordship sent him thither: There shall he practice tilts and tournaments, Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen. And be in eye of every exercise Worthy of his youth and nobleness of birth. Two Gentlemen From Verona, I.iii Jousting, tilting, and combat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Boar Tavern Tonight! Examining Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford’s Reputation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Examining Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford’s Reputation: “Truth is Truth to the End of Reckoning.” A Zoom Event at the Blue Boar Tavern April 23, 2016, 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific “Of very revered reputation, sir, Of credit infinite, highly beloved, Second to none that lives here in the city: His word might [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Boar Tavern April 23: Mark Your Calendars!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Examining Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford’s Reputation: “Truth is Truth to the End of Reckoning.” A Zoom Event at the Blue Boar Tavern April 23, 2016, 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific “Of very revered reputation, sir, Of credit infinite, highly beloved, Second to none that lives here in the city: His word might [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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