About Shakespeare’s Bible
Welcome to Shake-Speare’s Bible. This website covers news and scholarship on the Shakespeare authorship question.
Our primary focus is on documenting the recovery of the lost-and-found books of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, starting with Oxford’s 1568-1570 Geneva Bible, owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library. This Bible is the subject of my 2002 University of Massachusetts PhD dissertation in Comparative Literature.
I’ve studied the authorship question since 1990 and written over a hundred articles, many in peer reviewed articles, covering many new elements of fact patterning supporting the 1920 hypothesis of de Vere’s authorship of the plays. You can see my current CV here.
Other topics documented on this website include the intellectual history of the authorship question, early Shakespeare Allusions, the numerical and hermetic aspects of early modern poetry, and Shakespeare and the Bible.
For basics on the Authorship Question, please see the Authorship FAQ. For basics on the de Vere Geneva Bible, please see the Bible FAQ.
All images from the de Vere Geneva Bible are courtesy the Folger Shakespeare Library’s invaluable Luna Archive. This digital reproduction of the original document is available there in exceptional high resolution clarity so that any reader who questions any aspect of my presentation also has access to the best evidence on the topic available anywhere, namely the original document. I encourage both my supporters and my critics to make more use of it.
For links to more videos, please see my current CV: