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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 →
De Vere Geneva Bible Online
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Here’s a direct link to the Folger Library’s digitized copy of the de Vere Geneva Bible about which so much has been written in the New York Times and other international publications.
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.
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on January 15, 2014 The featured image above shows the title page of the Folger V.a.230 copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia.The partially obscured, apparently Elizabethan annotation at the top of the leaf reads: “This book to… Continue Reading →
Leslie Howard’s fierce commitment to the Oxfordian cause is memorialized in his 1941 Pimpernel Smith.
The blog entry examines and disproves the hypothesis that annotations in books from Sir Thomas Smith’s library are in the handwriting of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. They are, instead, in the handwriting of de Vere’s tutor, Sir Thomas Smith.
After rummaging around on the Wayback machine, I’ve salvaged most of the original posts from this site. Starting today, I’ll be blogging again as well as restoring those posts to an archive accessible here. The site features news and scholarship… Continue Reading →