The Oxfordian, Volume 23, Is Now Available
Largest-Ever Issue Contains Major New Discoveries The largest issue ever published of the SOF annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal, The Oxfordian, has been published. It contains
Largest-Ever Issue Contains Major New Discoveries The largest issue ever published of the SOF annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal, The Oxfordian, has been published. It contains
August 2, 2021 When I was ten, my mother took me to Franco Zeffirelli’s ground-breaking Romeo and Juliet on the big screen. I begged for
Independent Shakespeare scholar Maria Hablevych has recently published The Light of Shakespeare’s Temple: Articles, Translations, a collection of her Shakespearean scholarship in Ukrainian. The book
The Sonnets consist of “love poetry that is as passionate, daring, intimate, searing, and lyrical as any that we may ever encounter,” Rudenstine writes, adding that the poems are “more carefully ordered—as a coherent sequence” than most commentators allow, and that “some of the clusters of linked sonnets seem so tightly bound together”
December 5, 2014 Survey Says (2014) by Alex McNeil Attendees at this year’s Annual Conference were invited to fill out a survey (see below),
Quote from Sir Derek Jacobi: “I’m on the side of those who do not believe that the man from Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays. I think the name was a pseudonym, certainly. [Anonymous] puts the authorship question firmly and squarely on the big screen. It’s a very risky thing to do, and obviously the orthodox Stratfordians are going to be apoplectic with rage.”
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.
Joseph Sobran based his 1997 book Alias Shakespeare on his Oxfordian reading of the Sonnets, and he re-states here what he said in his book: the Sonnets are indeed an “Achilles’ heel” for Stratfordians, since any acceptance of their reality virtually blows the Stratford actor out of the water as their author.
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