Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter articles from January 2001

Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter archives from January 2001

Elizabeth's Glass.(Book Review/Commentary)(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... When Elizabeth I was just 11 years old she made an English translation of Marguerite of Navarre's Mirrors, calling it The Glass of a Sinful Soul. The translation was first published in Germany as A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen Sowle in...

Semiotics and the Shakespeare authorship debate: the author--and his icon--do make a difference in understanding the works.
January 1, 2001... A year ago I spoke to a high school English class about the Shakespeare authorship question. The students offered the typical landscape of reactions: broad plains of skepticism, peaks of interest, valleys of apathy. The most challenging...

Shakespeare allusions and Oxford; wounded truth; Titian and Venus and Adonis; Hamlet and a "lost inheritance".
January 1, 2001... Allusions to the 17th Earl of Oxford as the poet/dramatist Shakespeare in obscure verse stanzas and in a printer's colophon are explored in two articles of the October 2000 issue of the De Vere Society Newsletter, published in England. ...

Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt the real winner in a Shakespeare biography auction.
January 1, 2001... Publisher's Weekly reported in January that a dozen publishers competed in an auction for the rights to publish Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt's planned Shakespeare biography. W.W. Norton won the rights, and The Boston Globe...

The Bad Boy is back: amidst all the recent Oxfordian authorship news, The New York Times trumpets Marlowe.
January 1, 2001... As the Oxfordian / Shakespeare authorship paradigm continues to shift, leave it to The New York Times to headline the wrong story. Or maybe from their point of view it's the right story, a perfect combination of Elizabethan theatre, history...

Authorship film projects underway in US, UK.
January 1, 2001... At the winter 2001 meeting of the De Vere Society Michael Peer (the producer of last year's The Shakespeare Conspiracy, a documentary narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi outlining the Oxfordian case) announced that he is finishing the script of...

25th Annual Conference to be held in Carmel, California.
January 1, 2001... The Carmel Shake-speare Festival will host the 25th Annual Conference of the Shakespeare Oxford Society, October 4th to 7th, 2001. Over 100 participants are expected, with a conference highlight sure to be the performances of three plays from...

President's letter.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... I am pleased to report to you on the Society's continued progress in the past year and excellent prospects for this year. The major news for 2000 is the success of our fundraising efforts. Last spring the Board of Trustees--building on...

A flood of Shakespeare biographies since the Ogburn and Honigmann works in 1984-1985.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2001... There are almost 10,000 books in the Library of Congress dealing in whole or in part with Shakespeare as a topic but the numbers of serious scholarly biographies are not that numerous... for the obvious reason given the paucity of records....

A brief history of interpretation.
January 1, 2001... The history of the interpretation of literature begins with the word of God. For more than a dozen centuries, the only literature that mattered was Scripture, and the only serious question was, "What does the Author mean by that?" Discovery...

Authorship play in California; an April Oxfordian weekend scheduled in Chicago; Michigan Oxfordians spread the word; DVS meeting in London.(Oxfordian News)
January 1, 2001... California The South Coast Repertory company, based in Costa Mesa, will be producing an original play this coming June that takes on the Shakespeare authorship question. The Bard of Avon is a new play by award-winning playwright Amy...

Stone Coffin Underneath.(Research Notes)
January 1, 2001... "Truth hath a quiet breast." King Richard II It was suggested in 1975 that Edward de Vere might lie buried under the mysterious inscription "STONE COFFIN UNDERNEATH" in Westminster Abbey's Chapel of St. John the Evangelist, adjacent...

The ABCs of the authorship debate.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... As more and more people become aware of the authorship debate, certain fault lines lurking just beneath the surface bring on tremors that sometime surprise or even shock newcomers, but are really just part of the territory for those who have...

Changes in addresses, phone numbers.
January 1, 2001... Alert readers of recent newsletter issues may have already noticed several changes in phone numbers and addresses for several of our offices and contacts. We wish to alert everyone now that the transition is complete. Beginning last year...