Alexander Waugh
July 24, 2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Alexander Waugh. As SOF President Earl Showerman says, we have lost a precious avatar
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New videos available from the 2023 Conference!
July 23, 2024
Have you registered for the 2024 SOF Annual Conference yet? Check out the in-person and livestream options here! For a taste of the variety of
Denver Conference Livestream tickets now on sale
July 16, 2024
Attend virtually! Watch the conference live on your computer or phone. Join us virtually from the comfort of your home (or wherever!). The livestream registration
Hamlet in Denver tickets now available for purchase
July 9, 2024
Tickets are now available for the production of Hamlet which will be playing in Denver during the SOF’s upcoming Conference September 26-30. The production is
Hamlet Illuminated over 2 Sundays in July, 7/14 and 7/21!
July 5, 2024
Join us LIVE this month for a new 2-part episode of Shakespeare Illuminated! Prof. Michael Delahoyde will discuss the Oxfordian connections in Hamlet over two Sundays in July, the
The next Blue Boar Tavern on July 10th
July 2, 2024
ANOTHER ROUND OF DRINKS WITH BOB PRECHTER AT THE BLUE BOAR TAVERN EXPLORING ROBERT GREENE “[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Grand Reopening
June 28, 2024
By: Dorothea Dickerman “These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the
Denver Conference Schedule Announced
June 25, 2024
Full details including registration and the preliminary schedule of the four-day event – scheduled for September 26 to 29 at Denver’s Hyatt Centric Hotel —
Response to Henry Oliver
June 21, 2024
By Tom Woosnam On June 16th Henry Oliver published this on his blog: https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/shakespeare-wrote-shakespeare. It deserves a response. During the lifetime of the man
The Merry Wives of Windsor in the Guardian
June 18, 2024
Under the heading “Need Proof who wrote Shakespeare’s Plays? See the Merry Wives of Windsor”, the Guardian critic Michael Billington wrote this: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/20/proof-who-wrote-shakespeare-plays-see-the-merry-wives-of-windsor Derek Jacobi
A light hearted item for the end of the week
June 14, 2024
This comes from the BBC’s Horrible Histories series.
Shakespeare’s Songbook
June 11, 2024
Paul Bredderman Sr shared the following with us recently: The Complete Collection of Ballads, Rounds, Ayres & other Songs from the Plays of William Shakespeare
Pembroke Intervention? The Pavier Quartos
June 7, 2024
In 1619, just a few years before the release of the 1623 First Folio, publisher William Jaggard printed a series of playbooks which seems to
The Financial Times: “Who was Shakespeare?”
June 4, 2024
Elizabeth Winkler’s article in last weekend’s FT weekend supplement can be found here: Who was Shakespeare? (ft.com) You may hit a paywall, but if you
Oliver Kamm Falls into ‘The Certainty Trap’: Responding to “The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism.”
May 28, 2024
By Michael Dudley In the long-standing debate over the authorship of the Shakespeare works—about which so much remains unknown and subject to speculation—there is but
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Illuminated, live on Sunday June 2!
May 24, 2024
Join us LIVE on Sunday, June 2 at 4pm E | 1pm P when Professor Michael Delahoyde will be joined by guest commentator Dr. Earl Showerman,
