News and Scholarship on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Category Literary forensics

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 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 →

Forthcoming Article on Audley End Annotations to help Revolutionize Shakespeare Studies

Nearly a year ago the De Vere Society Newsletter published several brief first impressions of the content of the Audley End Annotations, following my April 2022 discussion of the handwriting question for the Shakespeare Authorship Trust. The Authorship Trust lecture… 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 Sea Serpent and the Valentines

One emphasis of this developing blog and website is on forensic method, a topic I’ve long studied and recently written about in the Journal of Forensic Document Examination (Vol. 27, 2017). One way I’ve developed an understanding of forensic methods… Continue Reading →

Hypnerotomachia and the Shakespeare Sonnets Dedication Page Encryption

Guest Post by William S. Niederkorn. After the recent post on Hypnerotomachia, I downloaded the first edition of that book (1499) from archive.org courtesy of the Boston Public Library and upon opening it, saw that the text block pattern of… Continue Reading →

Treasures of Audley End: Annotated Shakespeare Sources May Provide New Clue in the Authorship Question

In April I delivered an invited lecture to a members-only meeting of the Shakespeare Authorship Trust, a British organization dedicated to exploring the authorship question, about some annotated books at the Essex Estate of Audley End. John Casson and Bill… Continue Reading →

Whose Handwriting is in the de Vere Geneva Bible?

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The blog entry contests the facile and mistaken argument that Edward de Vere is not the annotator of his own Bible, using photographic evidence of handwriting and underlining in two of the three major ink types in the Bible.

Shakespeare’s Bible: St. Paul and the De Vere Geneva Bible

The post considers the significance of one of the most striking of the de Vere Bible annotations, the annotator’s supplemental correction of the missing pronoun at Romans 7:20.

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