The Oxfordian articles from January 1 2006

The Oxfordian archives from January 1 2006

Sonnet 107.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... Sonnet 107 Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule, Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love controule, Supposde as forfeit to a confin'd doome. The mortall Moone hath...

Dating sonnet 107: Shakespeare and the "mortall Moone".(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... St Fame dispos'd to cunnycatch the world, Uprear'd a wonderment of Eighty Eight: The Earth addreading to be overwhurld, What now availes, quoth She, my ballance weight? The Circle smyl'd to see the Center feare: The wonder was, no wonder fell...

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... The artist must make posterity believe he never lived Gustave Flaubert Time, like a river, rushes on, wrenching familiar landmarks from their moorings and sweeping them away out of sight. This past year, it took one of the landmarks of...

Authorship clues in Henry VI, Part 3.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... SOME years ago, in an article in Notes & Queries, Philippa Sheppard noted strong similarities between the speech of Prince Edward in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 3 (5.4. 44-49) and the famed "St. Crispin's Day" speech in Henry V (4.3.29-39)....

Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Was Shakespeare a woman? Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare? by Robin Williams Wilton Circle Press Was Shakespeare a woman? WHEN the famous folio of Shakespeare's thirty-six dramas appeared in London bookstores...

De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... De Vere as Shakespeare: An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon by William Farina McFarland: 2005 Shakespeare through Oxford glasses AN excellent introductory book for readers new to the Shakespeare authorship issue and to the...

In Search of Shakespeare at the Yale Center for British Studies and in The Smithsonian Magazine.
January 1, 2006... In Search of Shakespeare at the Yale Center for British Studies and in The Smithsonian Magazine Oxfordians who were able to make it to New Haven, Connecticut, this past month to see the exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art,...

First MA in Shakespeare authorship studies.(A Cup of Newes)(masters degree)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... William Leahy, Head of English at Brunel University in London, England, informed TOX that the University will initiate a Masters program in the Shakespeare Authorship Issue next year. Professor Leahy told TOX this summer that, "The first...

Jacobi recording of Oxford's letters reviewed by London Sunday times.(A Cup of Newes)(Sir Derek Jacobi, Oxford's Letters )(Audiobook review)
January 1, 2006... Malcolm Blackmoor and Susan Campbell, producers of the well-designed 2CD set of Oxford's Letters as read by Sir Derek Jacobi, were pleased by the following review by Christina Hardyment in the Audiobooks Section of the London Times of...

Mark Rylance makes plans as chairman of the Shakespearean authorship trust.(A Cup of Newes)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Mark Rylance, Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London for ten years and an actor with the RSC and Globe for twenty-five, is satisfying his long interest in the authorship question with a number of projects as Chairman of...

Great Oxford reviewed in times literary supplement.(A Cup of Newes)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Great Oxford, a trade paperback selection of research essays originally published in the De Vere Society Newsletter, was reviewed recently by Brian Vickers in the Times Literary Supplement. The book has sold more than 375 copies since it came...

Oxfordian scholar published in English historical review.(A Cup of Newes)(Christopher Paul, English Historical Review )(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... A book review by Oxfordian Christopher Paul (a short version of the review published here on page 91) of Daphne Pearson's 2005 book: Edward de Vere (1550-1604): The Crisis and Consequences of Wardship, has been published in the September 2006...

Shakespeare by Another Name now in paper.(A Cup of Newes)(hardcover book in paperback)
January 1, 2006... Mark Anderson's 2005 hardcover, Shakespeare by Another Name, is now held by 443 libraries worldwide, 11 of which are abroad: 8 in Canada, 1 in Australia, 1 in England (the University of Leeds), and the National Library of Scotland. While...

Farina's De Vere as Shakespeare selling well.(A Cup of Newes)(William Farina)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... DeVere as Shakespeare by Oxfordian William Farina (reviewed here on pages 135-7), has been purchased to date by ninety-nine libraries in the US, according to the World Catalog, a strong showing for a trade paperback edition on a scholarly...

Oxford's music now on CD.(A Cup of Newes)('My Lord of Oxford's Maske'; sound recording)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Singers, musicians, and students of early music Donna Stewart (mezzo soprano) and Ron Andrico (lutes, baritone) have recorded over an hour of music by or in some way connected with Edward de Vere on a CD, titled "My Lord of Oxford's Maske."...

Friends of the Globe lecture series.(A Cup of Newes)(Shakespearean Authorship Trust)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... This November the Shakespearean Authorship Trust and the Friends of the Globe are presenting the John Silberrad Memorial Lecture Series, four lectures, one per week, on early modern authorship issues, at the Globe Theatre, Bankside, London....

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Season 2007.(A Cup of Newes)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... For a Shakespeare experience of the finest kind, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon, has it all. From mid-February through October, they will be showing As You Like It, and from early June through early October: The Tempest,...

Gary Goldstein TOX news editor.(A Cup of Newes)(The Oxfordian, Shakespeare-Oxford Society)(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... Most readers are familiar by now with Gary B. Goldstein, former editor of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter and former editor and publisher of The Elizabethan Review, an independent, peer-reviewed history and literary journal covering the...

Una Mason TOX editorial assistant.(A Cup of Newes)(The Oxfordian, Shakespeare Oxford Society)
January 1, 2006... Had she been born during "Celtic Tiger" times, Una Mason might not have left her hometown of Cavan, Ireland, but after being awarded 1st and 2nd Arts at University College, Dublin (in English and French) and finding few opportunities at home,...

Professor Michael Delahoyde welcomed to the TOX editorial board.(A Cup of Newes)
January 1, 2006... Prof. Michael Delahoyde has been teaching English at Washington State University since 1992 and giving Shakespeare courses there since 1999. Earlier details are sketchy. He locates his birth in Poughkeepsie, NY on a cold July day after the...

From Russia with love: a case of Love's Labour's Lost.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown, To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own. The Princess: Love's Labour's Lost ALTHOUGH not officially one of three so-called "problem plays," Love's Labour's Lost is probably...

One last gift.(Ruth Loyd Miller)(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... HOSE who engage in the study of the Shakespearean authorship owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the life and work of Oxfordian pioneer Ruth Loyd Miller, who passed from this life in September of last year. Not only for the depth of her...

Oaths forsworn in Love's Labour's Lost.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... You do not love Maria? Longaville Did never sonnet for her sake compile, His loving bosom to keep down his heart? Berowne (1.1.150-53) VIRTUALLY all orthodox Shakespearean editors of the past 280 years have considered Love's Labour's...

DeVere's Lucrece and Romano's Sala di Troia.(Edward de Vere's The Rape of Lucrece, Giulio Romano)
January 1, 2006... To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come, To find a face where all distress is stell'd. Many she sees where cares have carved some, But none where all distress and dolour dwell'd Till she despairing Hecuba beheld,... Lucrece (1441-45)...

On the chronology and performance venue of: a Midsummer Night's Dreame.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities. Hippolyta (1.1.7-11) AILURE to acknowledge variant premises and methodologies...

A crisis of scholarship: misreading the earl of oxford.(Edward de Vere)
January 1, 2006... Timon: How goes the world, that I am thus encount'red With clamorous demands of broken bonds, And the detention of long since due debts Against my honor?... Flavius:... My loved lord, Though you hear now, too late, yet now's a time:...

Apples to oranges in bard stylometrics Elliott & Valenza fail to eliminate Oxford.(Ward E.Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza's article that challenges the Oxfordian authorship theory)
January 1, 2006... SIX years ago, professors Ward E.Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza published an article in THE OXFORDIAN titled "Can the Oxfordian Candidacy be Saved?" Their article reported negative results for stylometric tests comparing the known verse of...