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Who was Edward de Vere? And why are so many otherwise rational and educated hating on him?

Audley End Annotations Revealed at the Blue Boar Tavern

This 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… Continue Reading →

Audley End Annotations Show Handwriting of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

A detailed forensic study, forthcoming in the Journal of Forensic Document Examination, of the annotations of six books at Audley End in Essex shows that that they are not made, as sometimes supposed, by Sir Henry Neville, but by Edward… Continue Reading →

The Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere

Part II of Jonathan Jackson’s “Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere.”

The Audley End Annotations are Not in Sir Henry Neville’s Handwriting

Here’s the first of what will be many videos on the Audley End Annotations, sponsored by the Shakespeare Authorship Trust and the and posted to Youtube in April 2022. The video shows with detailed analysis why the annotations are not,… Continue Reading →

Handwriting 101: Did the Earl of Oxford Ghostwrite George Peele’s 1596 Letter to Lord Burghley?

Roger Stritmatter In a Winter 2022 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Newsletter article, “Who Wrote George Peele’s “Only Extant Letter,” Robert Prechter conducts an analysis claiming to establish that a 1595 letter sent to William Cecil, describing a literary work written by… Continue Reading →

The Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere

Eastern Christianity remains the most poetical and art-affirming of Christian traditions, developing an ethos that is much closer to the spirit of Shakespeare than seen in the western Churches. Was there significant influence from this earlier Christian tradition that helped the poet transcend the most polemical elements of the Catholic-Protestant conflict?

SOF Interview: Brief Chronicles on Shakespeare and the Law

Bob Meyers interviews me on the newest volume in the Brief Chronicles series, Shakespeare and the Law: How the Bard’s Legal Knowledge Affects the Authorship Question (2022). The book is also gaining a series of solid recommendations and reviews on… Continue Reading →

Oxfordian Fact Pattern: Ben Jonson and the de Veres

In his 1616 epigrams Ben Jonson honors Horace Vere, the Protestant military hero and cousin to the 17th Earl of Oxford, in epigram XCI (91) WHich of thy Names I take, not only bears   A Roman Sound, but Roman Vertue wears,Illustrious… Continue Reading →

A Life of Allegory: Eduardus is My Proper Name

Originally posted By Roger Stritmatter on June 15, 2011 “Shakespeare lived a life of allegory. His works are comments on it.” These words by John Keats, perhaps the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, distill the essence of authentic Shakespearean biography… Continue Reading →

O-Philia: or, How I Learned to Love Shakespeare by Learning about Edward de Vere

Guest post by Leda Zakarison* I’m one of those people who should love Shakespeare. I fit the bill perfectly for a teenage Shakespeare fanatic – I read books, speak French, and participate in class discussions. I’ve always bought into this… Continue Reading →

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