Tom Goff: How I Became an Oxfordian
At Tower Books on Watt Avenue in Sacramento, I first spotted Charlton Ogburn’s The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality, in a stack
At Tower Books on Watt Avenue in Sacramento, I first spotted Charlton Ogburn’s The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality, in a stack
July 6, 2016 Not long out of high school, while watching Kevin Kline’s Hamlet on PBS with the father of a school friend, he said
I had never heard of Edward de Vere. I was in the first place interested in Hamlet. Possibly I was too benumbed, as many people
I came to discover the Shakespearean Authorship Question when I was in grade 9. For me, the most enticing thing about it was the
In his opening paragraph, James Ross describes John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, as “the last great medieval nobleman.” He continues…
Here is another classic from our files. This article was originally published in the Summer 1983 issue of our newsletter. I was never a Stratfordian.
May 31, 2016 It was thanks to the New York Times. Much as I admire the important books by Mark Anderson, Thomas Looney, Charlton Ogburn
To evaluate Ver, begin and the challenge it represents for modern Shakespearean scholarship, we revisit an imperative written by J. Thomas Looney:
We shall first have to dissociate from the [canon] writings the conception of such an author as the steady, complacent, business-like man-of-the-world suggested by the Stratford Shakspere. …
“Why would anybody believe it?” The teenaged girl’s eyes were wide, her head shaking. She’d come to the front of the school auditorium to speak
May 3, 2016 The first requirement of becoming an Oxfordian is learning to love Shakespeare, both in production and on the page. I became possessed
April 30, 2016 Tom Regnier gave his presentation, “Did Shakespeare Really Write Shakespeare? Or Did Someone Else?” on April 11, 2016 in Coral Gables, Florida
In response to the many activities marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakspere of Stratford, and particularly in response to the Folger
It was in third form of grammar school in 1964 when my English (Language and Literature) teacher, Joost de Lange announced: “Now we have to
A few years back, I was a guest at a duo-piano recital in the elegant Portland home of a prominent arts patron, Mary Tooze. Her
Tom Regnier has recently appeared on television and in person promoting the Shakespeare Authorship Question in South Florida (Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties). On
It was the first showing of PBS Frontline; “The Shakespeare Mystery” in 1989. I was living in Santa Cruz, California, it was just after the
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