Authorship Podcast: “Don’t Quill the Messenger”
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
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 Diana Price (Editorial Note: This article was originally published in The Elizabethan Review, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 4 (August 1996) (PDF available here),
by John Hamill Originally published in The Oxfordian, v. 8, pp. 25–59 (2005) (repaginated PDF version here); republished on the SOF website Nov. 8, 2017,
A red string wound about the left wrist is a Cabalistic talisman, a supplication to Rachel, matriarch of all humanity. By wearing this thread, Henry
Joseph Sobran writes about the central thesis to his new book Alias Shakespeare, namely that the Sonnets provide the key evidence that the author of the Shakespeare Canon cannot be the Stratford man, and must be, among all the various claimants, Edward de Vere; and further, that the homosexual relationship revealed in the Sonnets explains the reason for covering up the true authorship.
Charlton Ogburn, Jr. responds to Sobran’s “Shakespeare’s Disgrace” by noting that the homosexual theory doesn’t measure up either to Oxford’s known life, or to what is revealed of the author in all the Shakespeare plays. He considers instead that the controversial alternate theory to the relationship between Shakespeare/Oxford and Southampton (i.e. that they may have been family) is more likely to explain the authorship mystery and the need for preserving his mature works under the “Shake-speare” pseudonym.
Peter Dickson reports on some incredible findings that have resulted from his recent researches into the 1620s and the life and times of King James I. When checking recent 1990s biographies of James, looking to see what new facts and insights may have been added, Dickson found instead that some critical information now appears to be missing!
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