Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter articles from March 2001

Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter archives from March 2001

Cross-examining Leonard Digges on his Stratford connections.
March 22, 2001... Leading Stratfordians have often called Leonard Digges to the witness stand to testify for the Stratford man as the author of Shakespeare's works. They present Digges as a friend and neighbor of the Stratford man. They say Digges knew him as...

Oxford as Shakespeare celebrated coast to coast: 5th Annual De Vere Studies Conference convenes in Portland.
March 22, 2001... A highly entertaining performance--and world premiere--of The Bubble Reputation, a play focusing on the circumstances behind the infamous William Henry Ireland Shakespeare forgeries, kicked off events for the 5th Annual Edward de Vere Studies...

Oxford as Shakespeare celebrated coast to coast: birthday bashes in Boston and Chicago.
March 22, 2001... Oxfordians in Boston and Chicago celebrated Shakespeare in the month of his birth by honoring Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, born April 12, 1550. Events in two of America's major cities provided a benchmark of the existing and...

A new Shakespeare portrait?(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Toronto's Globe and Mail took the Shakespeare world by surprise in May 2001 when they published a front page story on a possible new portrait of Shakespeare--the Stratford Shakespeare, that is--supposedly painted from life in 1603 by one John...

Arthur Golding's Metamorphoses: new edition now available, and one reviewer considers the de Vere/Shakespeare connection.
March 22, 2001... Newsletter readers and Oxfordians everywhere should be alerted to the availability of an old and valuable text that has just now returned to print after an absence of 40 years: Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. ...

Bard barred as "too boring".
March 22, 2001... The Guardian in Johannesburg (South Africa) reported last April 18th on a Shakespeare story that--unfortunately--has parallels in other school systems around the world, making "official" (as the article's author Chris McGreal put it) what...

The Hamlet formerly known as Prince: Royal National production leaves out the politics and the stakes.(Theater Review)
March 22, 2001... The much ballyhooed Royal National Theatre production of Hamlet arrived in Boston this spring, with Simon Russell Beale playing the famous tragical-historical hero, billed as "a Hamlet for our time." Director John Caird envisions Hamlet...

James Edmund Fitzgerald, 1943-2001.(Obituary)
March 22, 2001... James Edmund Fitzgerald, a member of the Shakespeare Oxford Society since the 1960s and a regular contributor to its publications, died at the age of 58 on April 27th, after a long bout with cancer. Fitzgerald was born on December 8th,...

Prince Hamlet, the "spear-shaker" of Elsinore: a consideration of just how often the madcap Prince wielded words in the cut-throat world of the court.
March 22, 2001... For several months in 2000 there was a discussion on the Internet forum Phaeton over the pseudonym "William Shakespeare," with the point in contention being whether Oxford simply adopted the Stratford man's name more or less directly, or...

De Vere Society in England sets July 2004 for anniversary conference; authorship play debuts in Tennessee; Renaissance Festival in Vermont.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2001... Massachusetts For those New England Oxfordians who didn't go to Portland, Oregon, in April, there were several local authorship events in Cambridge. The month began with the Oxford St. Players (managed by Lesley University English...

Midsummer night's dream on film: from Hollywood extravaganza to British opera.(Confidential Video Bard)
March 22, 2001... In the late 1970s and early 1980s the British Broadcasting Corporation produced a series of videos comprising the complete set of plays commonly attributed to Shakespeare. These productions featured strong professional casts from the top and...

Most Greatly Lived: a Biographical Novel of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Whose Pen Name Was William Shakespeare.(Book Review)
March 22, 2001... Most Greatly Lived: a Biographical Novel of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Whose Pen Name Was William Shakespeare. By Paul Hemenway Altrocchi. (Xlibris, 2000). Historical novels have long been accepted as a legitimate...

As we like it?(From the Editor)(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... After an eventful April for Shakespeareans of all stripes (Stratfordian and anti-Stratfordian), May came upon us with even more Shakespeare news, this time news making front pages around the world and raising many questions--again--about who...

Goodbye to a friend.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... It was a sad irony that our friend and devoted Oxfordian, James Fitzgerald, passed from this world on April 27th, the day of the Oxford Day Banquet in Cambridge, an event at which he had been a regular for years, just as he had been an...