Category Oxfordian fact pattern
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.
Apparently in responses to Ms. Winkler’s Guardian story about the Francis Meres analysis I published in Critical Survey a chorus of followers has taken it upon themselves to lecture the internet. A leading argument of this internet flashmob concerns de… Continue Reading →
Shows that one of the most potent passages relevant to the authorship question — namely the murderous confusion of “Cinna the Poet” for “Cinna the Conspirator — by the mob roused to a fury by Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration — is inscribed as an annotation in the Audley End copy of Cassius Dio.
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 →
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 →
Critical Survey, an established peer-reviewed academic journal edited by Professor Graham Holderness at Hertfordshire University, has accepted for publication a 13,000-word study of Frances Meres’ Palladis Tamia (1598) and its role in the authorship debate. The new article, “Francis Meres… Continue Reading →
“Edward de Vere gives me hope. And in these trying and uncertain times, humanity’s best path forward is the one in which we’re able to draw inspiration from the greatest poet who ever lived. Just as the Founding Fathers modeled… Continue Reading →
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on November 29, 2013. Lightly revised 6/2/2022. Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1853): The idea of ‘My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is’ is Shakespeare’s. My Mind to me a kingdom is;……My wealth is health and perfect ease,My… 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 →
Leah Marcus 1988 “Puzzling Shakespeare” says that Ben Jonson’s first folio epigram “sets readers off on a treasure hunt. Where is the real author to be found?”