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17 Oct 2023 |
Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, another revealing prologue lies at the start of this late play whose authorship the records attribute to Will and John… go to article |
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20 Aug 2023 |
Barrel scraping
One of the worst features of Barber's case, the weakest of her insinuations and one of the most depressing features of the invented… go to article |
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17 Aug 2023 |
A pontification too far
The Spectator. Alexander Waugh's Diary. November 2, 2013
Alexander Waugh's Diary is a sparse but rather good echo of Auberon Waugh's… go to article |
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21 Jul 2023 |
An Anti-Stratfordian Tour de Farce
From the lost play The Spanish Maze based on an as yet undiscovered chapter of Don Quixote, the only copy of which is… go to article |
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27 May 2023 |
We have taken the liberty of reproducing large chunks of Diana
Price's article rebutting the content of our Hand D pages (which she does without… go to article |
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22 May 2023 |
Riding the crest of the #metoo wave, Elizabeth Winkler, an investigative journalist, decided to explore the case that Shakespeare may have been a woman.… go to article |
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5 Apr 2023 |
By the end of the first week of the course, interest was already beginning to flag. The appearance of Alexander Waugh and his worn out arguments about play… go to article |
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23 Mar 2023 |
In 1613 Leonard Digges penned a note onto the fly-leaf of a copy of the third edition of Rimas de Lope de Vega Carpio, printed in Madrid the same year; the… go to article |
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13 Mar 2023 |
How to: Academy, Video Published on Sep 26, 2017
Shakespeare’s plays and poems tell us who we are. But who is he? Join celebrated Stratfordian Sir… go to article |
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15 Dec 2022 |
Inked Out: How Oxford's Letters Cross Him Off As “Shakespeare”
Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you
The Earl of Oxford’s English is… go to article |
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6 Dec 2022 |
Confirmation bias
Is it at all possible that conformation bias can be at work in the authorship question?
One of the great paradoxes in… go to article |
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25 Sep 2022 |
You are looking at Hand D, right here.
There really is no doubt about Hand D. And there really was none created in the MOOC. This section (and its… go to article |
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21 Sep 2022 |
A review by Tom Veal: Diana Price, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000)… go to article |
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15 Aug 2022 |
Droeshout—the face that launched a thousand quips
There is nothing suspicious, nothing indicative of alternative authorship or suggestive of misdirection,… go to article |
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15 Aug 2022 |
Droeshout—the face that launched a thousand quips
There is nothing suspicious, nothing indicative of alternative authorship or suggestive of misdirection,… go to article |
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31 Jul 2022 |
Another Oxfordian fantasy shot to bits
He that takes the pain to pen the book . The poems of Edward de Vere.
A new Oxfordian book has hit the… go to article |
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4 May 2022 |
No.
2020 is the 100th anniversary of Looney's book Shakespeare Identified. Hearts aflutter,
Oxies are busy tooling up to celebrate as if their man was the… go to article |
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4 May 2022 |
William Basse was a poet and a member of the servant class who first comes
to the attention of historians and students of language in 1602, when Basse… go to article |
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26 Jan 2022 |
Ian McKellen does a bit. The last actor to create a Shakespearean role.Can you doubt it? Someone should give this speech at Tory Party Conferences and… go to article |
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1 Jan 2022 |
We have been asking and begging to see a full Oxfordian Chronology and Paul Streitz has kindly provided one.
Now it is fair to say that not all Oxfordians… go to article |
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5 Oct 2021 |
Literary arguments about authorship, especially Oxfordian arguments, are easily subjectivised, stretched and exaggerated. You can't do that so easily with… go to article |
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26 Jul 2021 |
Faced with Sir Thomas More, a patchwork production by a rabble of commoners, which “like the toad … wears yet a precious jewel in his head”—a scene of… go to article |
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22 Jun 2021 |
What are the odds?
A new candidate has emerged in the SAQ battlefield. Female candidates are few and far between: we have discussed the Countess of Pembroke… go to article |
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26 Apr 2021 |
A literal-minded Oxfordian (is there any other kind?), insists that the author of the sonnets is using the word 'lame' in the literal sense to describe himself… go to article |
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4 Oct 2020 |
Feedback
The upgrade to the latest version of our CMS is complete. It would have been quicker to retype every article on a Sinclair ZX81. This is a page… go to article |
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25 Jul 2020 |
Dear Oxfraud,
My husband no longer shows the slightest interest in starting a conversation with me, let alone showing any kind of sexual interest.
After… go to article |
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22 Jul 2020 |
At her funeral, Hamlet leaps into Ophelia’s grave to outdo the grief of her brother with his own: “I lou'd Ophelia; fortie thousand Brothers Could not (with… go to article |
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13 May 2020 |
There are 31,102 verses in the Geneva Bible, including The Apocrypha. There are 550 marked passages which add up to around 975-1100 marked verses depending… go to article |
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29 Oct 2019 |
Anonymous: Scene:36 (Deleted)
Pub interior, Eastcheap. Dark. Some years before Jonson has appeared on the scene, De Vere and his cutthroat henchmen are sitting… go to article |
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26 Sep 2019 |
“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet,
my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods,
I am in ecstasy and agony,
I am possessed by memories of her… go to article |
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