Gary Goldstein founded the semi-annual journal The Elizabethan Review in the spring of 1993 because there were no peer-reviewed publications publishing Oxfordian research on the Shakespeare authorship question. Since the authorship question is a scholarly subject, it was vital to address professors through research they could trust. Goldstein also wanted academia to accept the scholarship of both academic and independent researchers. To that end, he established an editorial board composed of academicians teaching at accredited universities, as well as scholars with Ph.D. or other terminal degrees in the humanities — English, History, Religion, Theatre, Music, and Religion — who were not affiliated with any school.
The Review was published from 1993 to 1999, for a total of 13 issues. The editorial well consists not only of research papers, but essays, short notes, and book reviews on topics covering the full spectrum of the English Renaissance.
In the end, the journal was successful in its goals. The World Shakespeare Bibliography, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature all agreed to index the contents of the Review. What’s more, 50 colleges and universities decided to subscribe to it, including Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and other leading institutions of higher education.
When the SOS’s new journal, The Oxfordian, initiated publication in 1998, submissions to the Review declined to the point that it became difficult to sustain its publication. Goldstein therefore ceased publication in 1999. The new home of the Review here, on the SOF website, ensures that its invaluable research and contents will remain freely available to everyone interested in the period, and especially in the Oxfordian theory.
All issues of The Elizabethan Review are available below. Please click on “Complete Issue” to access a pdf of an entire issue, or click on individual links to read pdf versions of specific articles.
Spring 1993, Volume 1, Number 1
From the Editor (and Letters to the Editor)
The Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Construction by John Paul Stevens
The Singing Swallow: Sir John Davies and Shakespeare by Warren Hope
The Rare Italian Master and the Posture of Hermione in The Winter’s Tale by Bette Talvacchia
Notes: Shake-hyphen-speare by Peter R. Moore; “Concealed Poets” by Warren Hope; Did Shakespeare Read Dante in Italian? by Gary Goldstein
Fall 1993, Volume 1, Number 2
From the Editor (and Letters to the Editor)
Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler: Taming the Spirit of Discontent by James R. Keller
A Reconsideration of Heywood’s Allusion to Shakespeare by Gerald E. Downs
A Statistical Approach to the Shakespeare Authorship Question by C. Richard Desper and Gaty C. Vezzolli
Book Reviews
Mind Over Manner, The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne, review by Peter Sokolowski
Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Services, Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services, 1570–1603 by Alan Haynes, review by Francis Edwards, S.J.
Shakespeare’s Missing Personality, Shakespeare’s Personality edited by Norman Holland, Sidney Homans, and Bernard Paris, review by Roger Stritmatter
Paging Mrs. Shakespeare, Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Robert Nye, review by Warren Hope
Shylock by John Gross, review by Gary Goldstein
The Essential Shakespeare by Ted Hughes, review by Gary Goldstein
Spring 1994, Volume 2, Number 1
From the Editor (and Letter to the Editor by Roger Stritmatter)
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded—and Abridged by Elliott Baker
Death Put Off by Cunning and Forc’d Cause by David Chandler
An Encore for Shakespeare’s Rare Italian Master by Ross Duffin
Book Reviews:
Masterless Men, The Elizabethan Underworld by Gamini Salgado, review by Warren Hope
England’s Secret Theater, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl, review by Gary B. Goldstein
Autumn 1994, Volume 2, Number 2
Sir Philip Sidney Satirized in Merry Wives of Windsor by Charles Vere
Bitter Fruit: Troilus and Cressida in Queen Elizabeth’s Court by Charles Boyle
Kill, Kill, Kill by Peter Moore
William Shakespeare: Why Was His True Identity Concealed? by Francis Edwards
On the Meaning of “True Copy” by Robert Detobel
Book Reviews:
The Influence of the Italian Renaissance, Italian Drama in Shakespeare’s Time by Louise Clubb, review by Felicia Londré
The Elimination of Humanity, Deciphering Elizabethan Fiction by Reid Barbour, review by Warren Hope
Shakespeare and the Secret Service, The Shakespeare Conspiracy by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman, review by Patrick Buckridge
Spring-Summer 1995, Volume 3, Number 1
Elizabethan Views of the “Other”: French, Spanish, and Russians in Love’s Labor’s Lost by Felicia Londré
The Queen’s Hand in The Merchant of Venice by Elliott Baker
Was William Byrd’s “The Battell” Composed for the Theater? by Sally Mosher
Allusions to Edmund Campion in Twelfth Night by Richard Desper
Book Reviews:
This Lost Land: Ireland in Elizabethan Times, The Twilight Lords: An Irish Chronicle by Richard Berleth, review by Alan Cheney
The Voice of God, William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell, review by Warren Hope
Shakespeare’s Censored Personality, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England by Annabel Patterson, review by Roger Stritmatter
A Groatsworth Variorum, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit edited by D. Allen Carroll, review by David Chandler
Shakespeare, In Fact by Irwin Matus, review by Publius
Shakespeare: Who Was He? by Richard Whalen, review by Gary Goldstein
Autumn 1995, Volume 3, Number 2
The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised by Peter Moore
What Are Shakespeare’s Sonnets? by Warren Hope
A Further Reconsideration of Heywood’s Allusion by David Chandler
The Divisions Among the English Catholics: 1580–1610 by Francis Edwards
Edward de Vere and the Psychology of Feudalism by Charles Vere
Who Was Joseph Hall’s Labeo by Fred Manzo
Book Reviews:
Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Comedies by Naseeb Shaheen, review by Roger Stritmatter
The Man Who Was Shakespeare by Charlton Ogburn Jr., review by Gary Goldstein
Spring 1996, Volume 4, Number 1
Shakespeare, Shake-scene and the Clayton Loan by Diana Price
Monograph: Found—Shakespeare’s Manuscript of Henry IV by John Baker
Book Review:
Harold Bloom and His Discontents, The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages by Harold Bloom, review by Warren Hope
Autumn 1996, Volume 4, Number 2
Letter to the Editor (Richard Whalen)
Rough Winds Do Shake: A Fresh Look at the Tudor Rose Theory by Diana Price
Note: This article is also available on the SOF website.
What Did John Marston Know About Shakespeare? by Patrick Buckridge
Robert Greene’s Wit Re-evaluated by W. Ron Hess
Spring 1997, Volume 5, Number 1
Letters to the Editor (Walter Klier, Earl of Derby, Derran K. Charlton, Patrick Buckridge, Francis Edwards, Bob Grumman, Richard Edblom, Martha N. Walker, Verily Anderson, Charlton Ogburn, Diana Price, Elizabeth Sears)
A Debate: The Authenticity of Edward Dering’s Henry IV by Gerald Downs and John Baker
Who Was Joyce’s Shakespeare? by Gary Goldstein
Why I’m Not an Oxfordian by David Kathman
Book Reviews:
The Man Who Lived Twice, Sir Philip Sydney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558–1640 by H.R. Woudhuysen, review by Warren Hope
The Thirty-Eighth Play, Shakespeare’s Edward the Third: An Early Play Restored to the Canon edited by Eric Sams, review by Daniel Wright
Love’s Labor’s Won, Love’s Labor’s Lost: Critical Essays, edited by Felicia Londré, review by Gary Goldstein.
Shakespeare’s Scribe, The Texts of Othello and Shakespearean Revision by E.A.J. Honigman, review by Gary Goldstein
Oxford Redux, Alias Shakespeare by Joseph Sobran, review by John Mucci
Autumn 1997, Volume 5, Number 2
Letters to the Editor (John Baker, Richard Whalen, Francis Edwards, Christopher Dams, David Kathman, Charlton Ogburn, Warren Hope)
The Abysm of Time: the Chronology of Shakespeare’s Plays by Peter Moore
Controversy Among Gentlemen by A.M. Challinor
An Alternate Solution to the Funeral Elegy by Richard Desper
The Dedication to Shakespeare’s Sonnets by John Rollett
Notes:
Lear’s Cordelia, Oxford’s Susan and Manningham’s Diary by Warren Hope
Lady Macbeth’s Curds and Whey by David Chandler
Spring 1998, Volume 6, Number 1
Letters to the Editor (Isabel Holden, Francis Edwards)
Monograph: Occulist Influence on the Authorship Controversy by Roger Nyle Parisious
Book Excerpt: The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded: King Lear by Delia Bacon, edited by Elliott Baker
Why Was Venus and Adonis Published? by Richard Lester
Autumn 1998, Volume 6, Number 2
Letters to the Editor (John Rollet, Elizabeth Imlay)
Shakespeare’s Name by Richard Lester
Christopher Hatton, Edward Dyer and the “First Adonis” by Patrick Buckridge
The Use of Renaissance Dance in Shakespearean Productions: A Director’s Guide by LeighAnn Heil
lago Dilated: Delivering Time in Othello by Dean DeFino
Henry Peacham and the First Folio of 1623 by Peter Dickson
William Basse: Who Was He? by Warren Hope
Book & Music Reviews:
Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars, A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature edited by Arthur Kinney, review by John Mucci
De Vere Is Shakespeare: Evidence From the Biography and Wordplay by Dennis Baron, review by Peter Morton
CD: The Food of Love: Words and Music for Shakespeare’s Theatre, The Gesualdo Consort, by Cantoris Records, review by John Mucci
Postscript to the Tudor Rose Theory by Roger Parisious
Spring 1999, Volume 7, Number 1
From the Editor “New Discoveries and Theories”
Monograph: Robin Hood’s Pennyworth: The DeVere-Harlackenden Lawsuits by Daphne Pearson
An Alternative Theory of the Oxford Cover-Up by Richard Lester
Hamlet’s Transformation by Peter Usher
The Latin Mottoes on the Title Page of Henry Peacham’s Minerva Britanna by Noemi Magri
Shakespeare’s Little Hebrew by Gary Goldstein
Book Reviews:
Helen Vendler’s Art and Shakespeare’s Sonnets, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler, review by Warren Hope
Shakespeare’s Fictional Life, The Late Mr. Shakespeare: A Novel by Robert Nye, review by Micah Stem
