Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship President John Hamill has announced that the SOF Research Grant Program has awarded two grants for 2020. The purpose of the Research Grant Program (RGP) is to promote new research about Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford: research about his biography, his literary life, and supporting evidence for his case as the true author of the Shakespeare canon.
“These researchers have received RGP grants in the past,” said Hamill, “and we are pleased we can assist their continued research endeavors. Their grants can be used for proposed expenses during the 2020 calendar year. The SOF asks only from each awardee a one to two page report of the work, along with a summary of expenses as to the amount granted. The report is due no later than February 1, 2021.”
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James A. Warren
Has been awarded $4,000 to cover proposed costs for research on the early decades of the Oxfordian movement and the life of John Thomas Looney, who launched the Oxfordian movement with his ground-breaking book, “Shakespeare” Identified. The research will be conducted at the British Library, the University of London, Brunel University, and other locations in England. Jim has done tremendous work locating Looney documents and has found many previously unknown articles and letters. Most of this research has been done at his own expense. The reports of his current findings are extensive and impressive. This grant will further aid his on-going research.
Eddi Jolly
Has been awarded $2,000 to cover proposed costs for research in Public Record Offices and Libraries in England investigating whether there are any traces of manuscript marginalia on four late 16th century books or any uncovered documents that might shed light on Oxford’s life or activities. This will include further work in the British Library in case Sotheby’s sale catalogue from 1739-51 mentions anything about any of Francis Peck’s materials that weren’t published in Desiderata Curiosa. This missing manuscript is the focus of Oxford’s missing play, the so-called Flemingii mss. Eddi has also done much research in England and France over the past few years, looking for Oxford’s presence, though finding little evidence of it. Those libraries and records offices that she has searched no longer need to be investigated and can now be crossed off our list. Eddi has reported extensively on her previous investigations, mostly at her own expense also, and we want to assist her in her continuing research.
The SOF wishes both grant awardees the best as they continue their research.
