Tag De Vere Geneva Bible
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 →
The de Vere Bible annotator underlines three key moments of action in I Samuel 16:23, in which the young David plays on his harp to cure the madness of Saul.
The Blog reports on Richard Waugaman’s influential 2009 and 2010 Notes and Queries articles on the influence of the Sternhold and Hopkins edition of the Psalms in Shakespeare. Visual evidence from the de Vere Geneva Bible shows eight of the Psalms whose influence Waugaman discusses are marked with manicules in the de Vere copy of Sternhold and Hopkins.
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.
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.
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 18, 20, 2011 In case you were wondering if the internet is going to make us any smarter, the evidence is now in. The answer is, “no” – at least if one may draw… Continue Reading →
The Blog entry discusses the startling fact pattern of the de Vere Geneva Bible annotations: almost 2/3 of Shakespeare’s most commonly alluded to Bible references are marked or underlined in the book.
Welcome to the first post in a series on the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. Here we will review Ben Jonson’s “Witty Numbers” in his First Folio Epigram. The power point lecture gives an introduction. To me, this is one of… Continue Reading →
Here are pdfs of my (currently) 9 Notes and Queries articles on Shakespeare and the Bible. Click on the Zoom to enlarge. Comments are welcome.
Leslie Howard’s fierce commitment to the Oxfordian cause is memorialized in his 1941 Pimpernel Smith.