The Earl of Oxford’s annotations in Tacitus and Blondus?

| February 19, 2012

  An article in the November 2011 de Vere Society newsletter by  Elizabeth Imlay hypothesizes that marginal annotations and drawings contained in copies of Tacitus’ History of Rome and Blondus History of Europe  from Sir Thomas Smith’s library, now in the Queen’s College Library in Cambridge, are by the young Edward de Vere.

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Roger that, CEDAR

| February 1, 2012

  Well, its been a few weeks since I’ve done a post, and I can only plead in my own defense for such lack of productivity that I have in fact been very productive indeed, just not on Facebook or on this blog  (Hey, we old fuddy-duddy scholars have to do real work sometimes…..with such [...]

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Ben Jonson: Still Laughing at Us

| October 26, 2011

Ben Jonson, propelled in part by his central role in Anonymous, which provides an intriguing reconstruction of his possible relationship with “Shakespeare,” is in the news again. With thanks to Lisa W. for the tipoff, here’s the  Science Daily article, reporting on the possible discovery of a a major new Jonson-related manuscript by University of Nottingham and [...]

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The Stratfordian Ethic and the Imprisoned Innocent

| February 9, 2011

“Do the right thing” — Spike Lee This is going to be perhaps the most important post I’ve made to Shake-Speares-Bible.com. I put a lot of effort into the two detailed posts on James Shapiro’s hyphen error, and several other posts may be of some long term interest as well. Certainly its worthwhile to find [...]

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James Shapiro and the “Notorious Hyphen,” Part II

| April 18, 2010

Yesterday we took a long hard look at James Shapiro’s faux pas in claiming, in Contested Will, that the first appearance of the name Shakespeare in print, on the dedicatory page of the first edition of Venus and Adonis (1593), is hyphenated. It’s not. We also saw that Shapiro builds on this misconception to create [...]

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