Scholar James A. Warren has published a comprehensive history of the Oxfordian movement from its founding in 1920 to the present day. The new book, Shakespeare Revolutionized: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified, studies the impact of Looney’s work identifying Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the author of the plays and poems.
Warren delves deeply into academic and popular attitudes toward “William Shakespeare,” the man from Stratford-upon-Avon who may have fronted for Oxford. Those attitudes have stifled accurate research for decades. The definitive 765-page book was released in July and is available on Amazon.
Warren, honored as Oxfordian of the Year in 2020, is a much-published author and the editor of the centenary scholarly edition of Looney’s 1920 classic, “Shakespeare” Identified in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Linda Theil posted an interview with Warren about the new book on the blog of the Oberon Shakespeare Study Group. Full reviews are forthcoming in The Oxfordian (volume 23, mid-September; also to be republished on the SOF website), and in the Fall 2021 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (in November).
