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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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