A light hearted item for the end of the week
June 14, 2024
This comes from the BBC’s Horrible Histories series.
News
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,
SOF has a new Instagram
May 17, 2024
Social Media accounts are becoming increasingly more important is spreading the word regarding Edward de Vere. SOF’s account is oxenford_org and the more followers we
The next Blue Boar Tavern is coming up soon!
May 14, 2024
Who Are Those Guys: Marlowe and Bacon, and Was One of Them Shakespeare? Come celebrate the merry month of May on Wednesday, May 22 at
Shakespeare and Oxford in the lecture room
May 10, 2024
We don’t know much about T.L. Adamson, who was a Vice President and member of the Editorial Board of the Shakespeare Fellowship when he penned
Romeo and Juliet Illuminated, live on Sunday May 5!
May 3, 2024
Join us for the third episode in our new series, Shakespeare Illuminated, live this Sunday, May 5, at 4 pm Eastern time / 1 pm
Conference and hotel registration reminder
April 30, 2024
Mark your calendars for September 26-29, 2024 for the Hyatt Centric Hotel located at 1776 Champa St. in downtown Denver. SOF has secured rooms for
Winkler, Rylance to Speak in NYC April 30
April 26, 2024
This is an in-person event for New York Public Library members only, unfortunately, but nonetheless it’s very encouraging to see more evidence that the SAQ
Roger Stritmatter featured in April 19 Guardian article
April 19, 2024
This just in: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/19/questions-over-shakespeares-authorship-began-in-his-lifetime-scholar-claims
Sir Derek Jacobi and Elizabeth Winkler in conversation
April 16, 2024
At the London Library on June 6th author and critic Stephanie Merritt will be talking with Elizabeth and Sir Derek: https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/242-shakespeare-was-a-woman-and-other-heresies-in-person?date=2024-06-06-19-30 This is an in-person
April 12 – it’s Edward de Vere’s birthday!
April 12, 2024
Happy birthday, Oxford! It was on this date, April 12, in 1550 that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was born in Castle Hedingham,
The next Blue Boar Tavern is on April 23rd!
April 9, 2024
Essex’s ‘Rebellion’ Part II, with Hank Whittemore: Why Edward de Vere, Robert Cecil, Henry Wriothesley, and the Sonnets Hold the Keys to the Shakespeare Authorship
