Jim Boyd named to SOS board
April 5, 2010
At the March 28, 2010 Shakespeare Oxford Society (SOS) board meeting, trustees named Jim Boyd as an interim trustee to fill one of the positions
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Niederkorn weighs in on Shapiro
April 3, 2010
Former New York Times editor William S. Niederkorn weighed in on James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? with his review “Absolute Will” in the
Oxfordian edition of Othello available from Llumina
March 30, 2010
Author Richard F. Whalen sends word that the Oxfordian edition of Shakespeare’s Othello edited by Whalen and Ren Draya, PhD is now available from Llumina Press.
Editing Othello by Ren Draya
March 30, 2010
This essay on preparing an Oxfordian edition of Othello was first presented by Ren Draya, PhD, as part of a talk entitled “The Dramatist’s Knowledge
More Contested Will reviews
March 29, 2010
More reviews of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare by James Shapiro: Erudite Laura Miller at Salon.com on March 28, 2010 lays out the situation clearly,
Shapiro sez
March 28, 2010
Contested Will author James Shapiro published an essay titled, “Did Shakespeare write his plays alone?” in Sunday’s London Financial Times dated March 26, 2010. Shapiro
Robert Detobel translates Whalen review
March 28, 2010
Robert Detobel has translated Richard F. Whalen’s English-language review of James Shapiro’s new book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, into German. Whalen’s review is now available
New tactic: Who cares?
March 23, 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer John Timpane wrote an interesting article about the addition of Cardenio/Double Falsehood to the Arden Shakespeare series, “The stamp of Shakespeare’s
Dobson and Mantel say Shakespeare deniers need shrink
March 21, 2010
Michael Dobson, professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck College/ University of London wrote a review of James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? that was
Sunday Times reviewer calls Shapiro book “devastatingly funny”
March 20, 2010
John Carey reviews James Shapiro’s new book in London’s The Sunday Times, dated March 21, 2010: “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro —
Whalen reviews Contested Will
March 19, 2010
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010) Richard F. Whalen For the first time, a leading
NPG curator repudiates “Shakespeare” portrait
March 18, 2010
An article by Sarah Knapton that appeared in the London Telegraph yesterday (dated 20 March 2010) throws doubt on the newest “Shakespeare” portrait: “William Shakespeare
Hunter reviews Contested Will
March 17, 2010
Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Simon & Schuster 2010) Thomas Hunter, Ph.D. Let’s start with the good news about James Shapiro’s
But soft, yinz guyz
March 16, 2010
Looks like the Arden Shakespeare editors are adding yet another play to the Shakespeare canon, according to yesterday’s Guardian, “Shakespeare’s ‘lost play’ no hoax says
Egan interviews Shahan in Forever Young
March 16, 2010
The Shakespeare Oxford Society’s The Oxfordian journal editor, Michael Egan, asked the SOS News Online to share an interview he conducted with Shakespeare Authorship Coalition
