Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University.

The 9th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University opened on Thursday afternoon, the 7th of April, with a film and panel discussion on "Shakespeare and the Politics of Art." Panel members included Professor Tom Shuell and Professor Richard Hill (professors of mathematics and English, respectively, at Concordia University), as well as Shakespeare Matters editor Bill Boyle and Hank Whittemore, author of The Monument, a revolutionary study of Shakespeare's sonnets. The discussion was followed by a slide presentation by Stephanie Hughes describing her recent Conference-sponsored summer of study in England that she devoted to gathering more information about Edward de Vere's tutor, Sir Thomas Smith. Dr Eric Altschuler of the University of California--San Diego and independent scholar William Jansen spoke next on recent Stratfordian contributions to Oxfordian scholarship. The opening day's events concluded with a stunning refutation, by Professor Roger Stritmatter and Shakespeare Fellowship President Lynne Kositsky, of the old Stratfordian claim that …