Category Edward de Vere
The author reflects on their journey studying Shakespeare’s authorship since 1990. They discuss the suppression of doubts about Shakespeare and highlight figures like Charlton Ogburn and Freud, who supported post-Stratfordian theories. The piece notes the influence of prominent skeptics on the authorship debate and acknowledges their evolving perspectives in this ongoing exploration.
Thank you to those who have recently posted a reply any to the blog entries or the conversation on them, or have privately messaged me via the “Feedback” system. I’ve been so focused on several forthcoming articles, including one of… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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 →
Part II of Jonathan Jackson’s “Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere.”
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 →
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 →
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?
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 →
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 →