The Blue Boar Tavern kindly sponsored a discussion on the Audley End Annotations in this video recorded two weeks ago. Blue Boar hosts Bonner Miller Cutting, Dorothea Dickerman, Alex McNeil, and Jonathan Dixon — all experienced authorship skeptics — posed their questions to me.

The discussion covers many aspects of the annotations not discussed in previous videos:

  • The connection between the Audley End research and my 2001 PhD dissertation on the de Vere Geneva Bible
  • Edward de Vere’s Handwriting
  • The use of forensic handwriting analysis on early modern documents
  • Early modern book annotations
  • Comparison of the dramatic differences in sample sizes between de Vere Bible and Audley End Annotations
  • Comparison Italic and Secretary hands in early modern writing
  • Handwriting in play manuscripts
  • Why the Audley End annotations supply more compelling evidence than the de Vere Geneva Bible.