Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter articles from March 2003

Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter archives from March 2003

"Shakespeare or De Vere?--That is the Question": authorship debate at the Smithsonian.
March 22, 2003... Following the success of its 2002 evening seminar, "Who Wrote Shakespeare," the Smithsonian Resident Associates presented on April 19, 2003 another seminar on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, titled, "Shakespeare or De Vere?--That is the...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in London: did a Danish writer discover the real men behind the Shakespeare characters?
March 22, 2003... Hamlet's childhood friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are among Shakespeare's most famous pairs of characters. But this inseparable couple, whom King Claudius called to the court from Wittenberg, has always been a puzzle to scholars. Were...

Good Queen Bess at the Folger.
March 22, 2003... As reported in the last issue of the newsletter, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. is holding an extensive exhibition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death. With the largest collection in America of...

A tribute to Delia Bacon: much can be learned from this courageous forerunner of the authorship issue.
March 22, 2003... This article is taken from a presentation at the De Vere Studies Conference, April 13, 2003, Concordia University Delia Bacon and Elliott Baker are, in my opinion, both great minds and great writers who have been neglected. Elliott Baker...

Concordia's Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference.
March 22, 2003... From its modest beginning seven years ago, Prof. Daniel Wright's Annual Edward de Vere Studies Conference at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon has blossomed into a major venue for Oxfordian scholarship in America. In 1997, fewer than...

De Vere Society report.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2003... The De Vere Society held its Annual General Meeting on May 10, 2003, at Birkbeck College, London featuring several outstanding Oxfordian papers. Dr. Noemi Magri (lecturer in English in Mantua, Italy) captivated the audience with maps and...

Bloom blooper.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2003... On May 3, 2003, Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom gave a live three-hour television interview for "In Depth," on CSPAN2, and answered several questions from callers from around the country. Bloom lauded Shakespeare as "the greatest of all...

Price on NPR.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2003... On Sunday April 27, 2003, an interview with Diana Price aired on National Public Radio, focusing on her book, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography. Price mentioned that a purely anti-Stratfordian approach, not committing to an alternative...

Oxfordian Studies seminar.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2003... "Hamlet: Shakespeare's Biography?" is this year's topic for Concordia University's second annual seminar in Oxfordian studies, August 17-23, 2003. The play will be studied with an Oxfordian perspective, along with related topics, such as "How...

Proposed Oxford Shakespeare Centre.(Oxfordian News)
March 22, 2003... Long-time Oxfordian Ron Destro made the front page of the New York Sun on May 2, 2003 with his plans for a non-profit Oxford Shakespeare Centre, which includes two theaters, a drama school, museum, library and restaurant to be built in Lower...

"Household words": common and uncommon words coined by Shakespeare, part II.
March 22, 2003... This is the second part of a list of Shakespeare-invented words compiled by Michael Macrone and featured in a chapter in his bestselling book, Brush Up Your Shakespeare! As Macrone explains in his work, it is "a partial list of the words for...

Thoughts on Oxfordian strategy: a high jumping metaphor.
March 22, 2003... We Oxfordians face a predicament in trying to resolve the authorship issue. The following metaphor may help us to understand that predicament: Imagine the authorship issue as a high jumping event at a track meet. We are in a stadium full of...

An interview with Chasing Shakespeares author Sarah Smith.(Interview)
March 22, 2003... Sarah Smith, author of three best-selling historical suspense novels, has a Ph.D. from Harvard and describes herself as a "recovering academic." Her newest mystery is Chasing Shakespeares, from Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She is on...

Chasing Shakespeares.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... CHASING SHAKESPEARES a novel by Sarah Smith, 349 pages, Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, $24.00. This Oxfordian novel is Sarah Smith's fourth mystery/suspense to be published. A best-selling Harvard Ph.D. who became persuaded of merits in...

John Louther: a recollection.(Obituaries)
March 22, 2003... John H. Louther was a trustee of the Shakespeare Oxford Society during 1990-1991. He was responsible for organizing the Burford lecture tour, and for its great success, the Society honoured Louther with the "Oxfordian of the Year" Award in...

G. Grant Gifford.(Obituaries)
March 22, 2003... Former SOS trustee G. Grant Gifford passed away on April 27, 2003. Gifford served on the SOS board from 1997-1998, and was a founding member of the Oversight Committee, serving from 1999 until his death. "Grant was a dear friend and a...

Oxford bites the big apple: the 27th annual Shakespeare-Oxford Society conference New York City, October 23rd-26th, 2003.
March 22, 2003... Plans continue to take shape for the 27th annual Shakespeare-Oxford Society conference, this year taking place in New York City, birthplace of the Society, and coinciding with St. Crispin's Day (October 25th). The conference theme is...

On Shakespeare's profession.
March 22, 2003... Reprinted below is a paragraph and a poem extracted from the English journal, Notes and Queries (3rd Series, V, March, 1864), written by Edmund Lenthal Swifte in honor of the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. We forgive Mr. Swifte for...