Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Diana Price’s groundbreaking “Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem,” originally published in 2001, was “the first book to undertake a systematic comparative
book review by Michael Hyde Michael Blanding, North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work (Hachette, 2021). This review
Historian Katherine Chiljan and SOF President John Hamill Among Recent Guests Interviewed by Host Steven Sabel by Bryan H. Wildenthal Katherine Chiljan, an independent historian
by Tom Regnier Writing anonymously or under a pseudonym was commonplace in Elizabethan England. Archer Taylor and Frederic J. Mosher, in their seminal book on
All back issues of the Elizabethan Review, published by Gary Goldstein from 1993 to 1999, are now freely available for download on the SOF website. They
[Republished from Diana Price’s website with her kind permission.] In its June 2019 issue, the Atlantic published Elizabeth Winkler’s article describing the case for a relatively
June 24, 2019 — Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal has published a landmark new book, Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubts. The book refutes the commonly heard Stratfordian
by Diana Price (Editorial Note: This article was originally published in The Elizabethan Review, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 4 (August 1996) (PDF available here),
March 5, 2019 The traditional biography of Shakespeare never made sense to me. On a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, I picked up a biography with the
Special Issue Edited by Professor Don Rubin February 4, 2019 — “The Question That Won’t Go Away: Did the Man From Stratford Really Write the
Intertextual Evidence for Shakspere as an Authorship Front Man by Jonathan Dixon Editorial Note: This article was originally published in Shakespeare Matters, vol. 4,
SOF Vice President Don Rubin Will Edit Critical Stages (critical-stages.org), a mainstream webjournal published three times a year by the Paris-based International Association of Theatre
Robin Fox Originally published in THE OXFORDIAN, Volume XI 2008, pages 113–136 There has been a checkered history of attitudes to William Shakespeare of Stratford’s
My name is Piet-Hein Zijl, living in Zaanstad, a town just north of Amsterdam, Holland. My age is 69, I worked as a teacher and
My fascination with Oxford/Shakespeare was a coup de foudre, a sudden jolt. My first brush with Shakespeare came years ago, when as a young woman
By Dr. Michael Egan Readers will know that Shakespeare Beyond Doubt contributor, Hardy Cook, also runs SHAKSPER, an online discussion group. Recently the issue of
