The Oxfordian articles from January 1 2010

The Oxfordian archives from January 1 2010

Good deeds in a naughty world.(Editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2010... The case for and against Oxford or anyone else as the author of the Collected Works and several apocryphal plays, has lately been dominated by the stylometricians and their acolytes. Refuting or confirming their attributions often requires the...

Robert Sean Brazil: 1955-2010.(In Memoriam)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I am saddened to report the death of Robbie Brazil, co-partner in the Elizabethan Authors web site. A born jester, but no fool, he wore his motley with the ride of one who believes in his mission; a born teacher but no...

Verily Anderson Paget: 1915-2010.(In Memoriam)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2010... It is with the deepest regret that I notify readers of the passing from nature to eternity of Verily Anderson Paget, aged 95. Verily died at home, in her own bed, of a suspected heart-attack. Truly a blessing. I was speaking to her only...

The top ten reasons Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare.(William Shakespeare)
January 1, 2010... 1 The Real Shakespeare There never was an Elizabethan playwright named William Shakespeare. There was an Elizabethan actor by the name of William Shaxper or Shakspere born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. When academics speak of the...

The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England: Shakespeare's first version of King John.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... The anonymous history play The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England occupies an ambiguous place in the limbo of extant Elizabethan plays whose authorship has not been determined. It has been ascribed to as many as eight different...

A matter of pronunciation: Shakespeare, Oxford and the Petty-School Question.(William Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... In "Shakespeare, Oxford and the Grammar School Question" (The Oxfordian, 2009), I tackled the issue of the author's supposed direct knowledge of grammar schools as evidenced in the plays. The argument is familiar. If the author were indeed a...

The fable of the belly: a reassessment of the date of composition of Coriolanus.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Researchers have estimated when Shakespeare wrote his plays using the evidence of (1) first publication date or mention in the Stationers' Register, (2) mention or borrowing of words, phrases or plots by Shakespeare's contemporaries; (3)...

Titus Andronicus and the treasonous House of Howard.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Ever since 1904, when the first and only copy of the 1594 Quarto of Titus Andronicus surfaced in Sweden, most scholars have chosen to dismiss as redundant three-and-a-half lines, found only in this edition: ... and at this day To...

Some comments on Michael Egan's 'slurs, nasal rhymes and amputations'.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Slurs" is apt: Egan casts many on me. I am accused of duplicity, ineptness, ignorance, and almost every kind of deviousness, such as deliberately concealing evidence that tells against my conclusions. This is a strange way to conduct a scholarly...

Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine and The Taming of The Shrew.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... The sole authority for the text of The Taming of The Shrew is the Folio of 1623. It is the eleventh play, appearing amongst the comedies, after As You Like It and before All's Well That Ends Well. It occupies twenty-two folio pages, pp 208-29....

The Swallow and the Crow the case for Sackville as Shakespeare.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Uniquely in the annals of English literature, William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was credited during his lifetime, and for many years afterwards, with writing two large and distinct sets of literary works. The first, conveniently...

The Shakespeare Clinic and the Oxfordians.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2010... Help Gods, help saints, help sprites and powers that in the heaven do dwell, Help ye that to wail aye wont, ye howling hounds of hell; Help man, help beasts, help birds and worms, that on the earth do toil; Help fish, help...