Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter articles from September 1999

Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter archives from September 1999

23rd Annual Conference caps an eventful year: controversial issues addressed; six new members elected to Board of Trustees.
September 22, 1999... The annual conference in Newton, Massachusetts not only helped ring down the curtain on the century and the millennium for all of us, it also concluded an incredible decade of progress on the authorship front for all anti-Stratfordians, but...

Poetry challenge in The Shakespeare Newsletter draws an Oxfordian response.(News Notes)
September 22, 1999... Two Oxfordians, one Stratfordian and a Nashe/Stracheyan responded to a challenge by The Shakespeare Newsletter to explain the meaning of the cryptic poem by John Davies, "To our English Terence, Mr. Will. Shakespeare." The Oxfordian...

Jonson, Jones masque manuscripts found in Wilton House.
September 22, 1999... Researchers looking for material to support an exhibition of 17th century portraits at one of Britain's leading stately homes have been stunned to discover a long hidden volume of dramatic works by two of the most celebrated artistic figures...

A Call for action.
September 22, 1999... Let's all give 60 Minutes a healthy suggestion for their April schedule. Send a postcard, letter, or fax requesting a report on the Earl of Oxford and the Shakespeare Authorship Question. Make it short and concise, and name dropping...

24th Annual Conference to be held in Stratford, Ontario--Home of the Shakespeare Festival.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Society's 24th Annual Conference will be held from October 26th to 29th in Stratford, Ontario (Canada). Through the efforts of Canadian Sue Sybersma, newly elected to the Board of Trustees last November, the Society will mark its first...

Vera Ogburn's letter to Society members, in memory of Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
September 22, 1999... I am very sorry that I cannot be with all of you at this 23rd Annual Conference. I do appreciate having this opportunity, however, to say a few words to you. I want especially to thank members of the Society for the many letters I...

The legend of the round-earthers.
September 22, 1999... A long time ago in a land far away, there arose a civilization that spanned an entire continent. This civilization was very powerful and technologically advanced, but in some ways it was naive. For example, most of its citizens believed the...

Shakespeare, Southampton and the Sonnets: conference presentations explore competing theories.
September 22, 1999... On Friday afternoon, three conference presentations centered around one topic, namely, The 3rd Earl of Southampton and the Order of the Garter of Southampton, his relationship with the Sonnets' author Oxford/Shakespeare (and with others,...

Shakespeare and religion: conference panel highlights sticking points for all Shakespeare scholars.
September 22, 1999... In a significant departure from customary patterns of engagement with Shakespearean orthodoxy, three Oxfordians joined two Boston College Professors on the Boston College campus in a discussion of the topic "Shakespeare and Religion," under...

Shakespeare's religion.
September 22, 1999... The personal religious convictions of Shakespeare are unknowable. The private side of the poet's religious faith is likely lost to us for all time. We cannot, however, say the same of Shakespeare's public theology. In the theological face...

James Roberts and Oxford: another key publishing relationship.
September 22, 1999... James Roberts (1564-1606), a prolific printer, held the unique royal monopoly on the printing of Astrological Almanacs and Prognostications. His patent was granted on May, 12, 1588, and lasted throughout the reign of Elizabeth. In May of...

1622 Othello cracks a frozen Shakespeare market.
September 22, 1999... Consistent with Robert Brazil's work--published in the last two Shakespeare Oxford Newsletters, and presented at the 23rd Annual Conference--a close examination of the pattern of publication and ownership to the some 20 Shakespeare plays...

Authorship Roundtable hosts lectures about recent research on Oxford and about Giordano Bruno; in England, an Oxfordian theater debuts in London.(Oxfordian News)
September 22, 1999... California The Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable in Los Angeles, California opened their 1999-2000 season with two very interesting talks. In September, Professor Alan Nelson from the English department at UC Berkeley spoke about his...

Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 1999... Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England (1995) by Eric S. Mallin of the University of Texas, Austin. Unlike many academics Professor Mallin studies plays "in their contemporary historical context." Troilus and...

Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 1999... Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare (1998) by Theodor Meron of New York University School of Law. For Professor Meron Shakespeare is a defender of feudal chivalry that has shaped today's international law. Shakespeare had...

Shakespeare's Shakespeare: How the Plays Were Made.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 1999... Shakespeare's Shakespeare: How the Plays Were Made (1997) by John C. Meagher of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Shakespeare's dramaturgy is the subject of this curious, sometimes self-deprecatory book. Professor Meagher...

The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 1999... The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (1994) by Carole Levin of the State University of New York. In this meditation on the implications of an unmarried woman being England's ruling monarch,...

William Shakespeare.(Book Review)
September 22, 1999... William Shakespeare. By Anthony Holden (Little, Brown, 1999) From Peter Ackroyd's review (November 11th issue of the London Times): "Every biography of Shakespeare creates a different writer and a different man. The principal facts...

Was the Troilus and Cressida Preface written in 1602-1603?(Research Notes)
September 22, 1999... Both Oxfordians and Stratfordians engaged in the authorship agree that the extraordinary preface to the 1609 quarto of Troilus and Cressida ("A Never Writer to An Ever Reader. Newes") is extremely important for several reasons. The...

No new play?(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Oxfordian researcher Nina Green, writing on the internet discussion group Phaeton, brought to light an interesting fact revealed in a letter to Robert Cecil in 1604. The letter, from Sir Walter Cope to Cecil, is cited in passing in...

The Board of Trustees.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
September 22, 1999... The elections for the Board of Trustees at this year's Annual General Meeting brought a total of six new members to the Board, marking one of the more significant changes in the overall makeup of the Society's Governing Body in recent years....

The Oxfordian.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
September 22, 1999... The 1999 issue of The Oxfordian was completed in time to be distributed at the Conference, and mailed to all subscribers by the end of November. If there is anyone who subscribed last year, or believes they subscribed at the 1998 conference,...