Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter articles from September 2009

Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter archives from September 2009

Watertown symposium.
September 1, 2009... The two-day "Shakespeare from the Oxfordian Perspective" symposium held May 29-30, 2009 in Watertown, Massachusetts, was a great success. About 50-60 people--many of them first timers--turned out for both a play on Friday night and the all-day...

SOS President Matthew Cossolotto: my name be buried--marking the 400 anniversary of Shakespeare's posthumously published sonnets.
September 1, 2009... "A booke called Shakespeares Sonnettes" was registered for publication on May 20, 1609, by publisher Thomas Thorpe. That much we know for sure. It is assumed by most scholars that the book bearing the rather bland title Shake-speare's Sonnets...

SOS on Facebook.
September 1, 2009... SOS board member and publications committee member Brian Bechtold opened the SOS Facebook page on July 23, 2008. He was assisted by Stuart Green and Julia Bechtold. Julia helped with initial building of the social networking site and both...

2009 SF/SOS joint conference.(Shakespeare Fellowship, Shakespeare Oxford Society)
September 1, 2009... The 2009 joint conference of the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society will be held November 5-8 at the Houston Intercontinental Airport Doubletree Hotel in Houston, Texas. The cost for full registration is $200 including...

Remembering K.C.(Obituary)
September 1, 2009... Friends, colleagues and students of Katherine Dunfee Clarke (K.C.) Ligon gathered on June 22 in New York to celebrate the life of this multi-talented and beloved actress, dialect coach, teacher, writer and leader of the modern Oxfordian...

TOX update.('The Oxfordian', the annual journal of the Shakespeare Oxford Society)(Brief article)
September 1, 2009... The next issue of the Shakespeare-Oxford Society annual journal, The Oxfordian, Vol. XI 2008, is in active preparation and will be available in fall, 2009. The line-up of contributors reflects the editor's emphasis on the authorship question as...

Somebody we know is behind No-body and Some-body.(the play 'Nobody and Somebody', which was once performed by Shakespeare's theater company)(Essay)
September 1, 2009... In 1878, Chatto and Windus published The School of Shakspere, a two-volume collection of seven anonymous Elizabethan and Jabobean plays edited by the recently-deceased Richard Simpson, a prominent Shakespeare scholar. They had all been performed...

Edward de Vere as Henry IV.
September 1, 2009... In 1993 I presented a talk I at the Shakespeare Oxford Society Conference in Boston that included brief references to a portrait by an unknown artist. I claimed the painting depicted Edward deVere in the role of King Henry IV (Figure 1). Older...

Ben Jonson & The Tempest: "The Copie may be Mistaken for the Principall".
September 1, 2009... Meanwhile, we make it clear that we do not rest upon these earlier date theories, and that the rejection of "The Tempest" must in our view be incorporated ultimately into the general argument. J.T. Looney, Shakespeare Identified, 1920 J. T....

Proofs of Oxfordian authorship in the Shakespearean apocrypha.
September 1, 2009... With appreciation for Katherine Chiljan's analysis of "A Lover's Complaint" (Chiljan 5-8) as Oxfordian, I should like to extend the discussion of Shakespearean apocrypha, and to establish a like conclusion, that two more of the minor poems are...

Much Ado ... on the Hudson.('Much Ado About Nothing'; Hudson River)
September 1, 2009... My family and I had a wonderful time last weekend at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's production of Much Ado About Nothing, performed in (and around) a big circus type tent on the grounds of Boscobel, one of the great estates that line...

Soul of the Age, the Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare.
September 1, 2009... Soul of the Age, the Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate (UK: Penguin Books, Ltd. Oct. 2008; published as Soul of the Age. A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare, US: Random House, April 2009.) First...

Update on Eagan-Donovan film project.
September 1, 2009... What if Shakespeare was bisexual? What if Shakespeare was French? What if everything you knew about Shakespeare was wrong? The true challenge in making a contemporary film about Shakespeare is in making Shakespeare sexy. To compete with the...

Altrocchi and Whittemore build the case.
September 1, 2009... The first five volumes of a new series of books entitled Building the Case for Edward De Vere as Shakespeare, edited by Paul Hemenway Altrocchi and Hank Whittemore, is now available online at iUniverse.com, Amazon and Barnes & Noble...

Shahan's letter to Shermer, the skeptic.(John Shahan of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition; editor Michael Shermer of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... On July 24, 2009, independent Oxfordian researcher John Shahan sent this letter to the editor in reply to Michael Shermer's column, "Shakespeare, Interrupted," in the August 2009 issue of Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican....