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6 May 2022 |
Another Oxfordian fantasy shot to bits
He that takes the pain to pen the book . The poems of Edward de Vere.
A new Oxfordian book has hit the… go to article |
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4 May 2022 |
No.
2020 is the 100th anniversary of Looney's book Shakespeare Identified. Hearts aflutter,
Oxies are busy tooling up to celebrate as if their man was the… go to article |
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4 May 2022 |
William Basse was a poet and a member of the servant class who first comes
to the attention of historians and students of language in 1602, when Basse… go to article |
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26 Jan 2022 |
Ian McKellen does a bit. The last actor to create a Shakespearean role.Can you doubt it? Someone should give this speech at Tory Party Conferences and… go to article |
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1 Jan 2022 |
We have been asking and begging to see a full Oxfordian Chronology and Paul Streitz has kindly provided one.
Now it is fair to say that not all Oxfordians… go to article |
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10 Oct 2021 |
Diana Price,Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem(Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000)
Introduction
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5 Oct 2021 |
Literary arguments about authorship, especially Oxfordian arguments, are easily subjectivised, stretched and exaggerated. You can't do that so easily with… go to article |
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26 Jul 2021 |
Faced with Sir Thomas More, a patchwork production by a rabble of commoners, which “like the toad … wears yet a precious jewel in his head”—a scene of… go to article |
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22 Jun 2021 |
What are the odds?
A new candidate has emerged in the SAQ battlefield. Female candidates are few and far between: we have discussed the Countess of Pembroke… go to article |
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26 Apr 2021 |
A literal-minded Oxfordian (is there any other kind?), insists that the author of the sonnets is using the word 'lame' in the literal sense to describe himself… go to article |
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4 Oct 2020 |
Feedback
The upgrade to the latest version of our CMS is complete. It would have been quicker to retype every article on a Sinclair ZX81. This is a page… go to article |
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25 Sep 2020 |
A pontification too far
The Spectator. Alexander Waugh's Diary. November 2, 2013
Alexander Waugh's Diary is a sparse but rather good echo of Auberon Waugh's… go to article |
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25 Jul 2020 |
Dear Oxfraud,
My husband no longer shows the slightest interest in starting a conversation with me, let alone showing any kind of sexual interest.
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22 Jul 2020 |
At her funeral, Hamlet leaps into Ophelia’s grave to outdo the grief of her brother with his own: “I lou'd Ophelia; fortie thousand Brothers Could not (with… go to article |
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16 May 2020 |
Barrel scraping
One of the worst features of Barber's case, the weakest of her insinuations and one of the most depressing features of the invented… go to article |
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13 May 2020 |
There are 31,102 verses in the Geneva Bible, including The Apocrypha. There are 550 marked passages which add up to around 975-1100 marked verses depending… go to article |
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29 Oct 2019 |
Anonymous: Scene:36 (Deleted)
Pub interior, Eastcheap. Dark. Some years before Jonson has appeared on the scene, De Vere and his cutthroat henchmen are sitting… go to article |
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14 Oct 2019 |
We have taken the liberty of reproducing large chunks of Diana
Price's article rebutting the content of our Hand D pages (which she does without… go to article |
Diana Price |
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26 Sep 2019 |
“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet,
my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods,
I am in ecstasy and agony,
I am possessed by memories of her… go to article |
Stylometry |
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3 Sep 2019 |
Stylometry takes a step forward
In the face of such methodological shortcomings, conflicting opinions, and duelling analyses, what is one to… go to article |
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26 Aug 2019 |
Droeshout—the face that launched a thousand quips
There is nothing suspicious, nothing indicative of alternative authorship or suggestive of misdirection,… go to article |
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26 Aug 2019 |
Droeshout—the face that launched a thousand quips
There is nothing suspicious, nothing indicative of alternative authorship or suggestive of misdirection,… go to article |
First Folio, Droueshout |
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20 Aug 2019 |
Some ideas on the current state of SAQ affairs
Oxfordians claim to have assembled their contentions into a theory built from first principles by… go to article |
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13 Aug 2019 |
Leading Oxfordians seem to have disappeared from public debate. Where are they hiding? What can they be plotting?
First Oxfordian
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1 Aug 2019 |
1. Shakespeare is not Oxford's pseudonym. There is no credible evidence that anyone from Shakespeare's time suggested that the… go to article |
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16 Jun 2019 |
Salting the battlefield for the main arguments
tr.v. salt·ed, salt·ing, salts
To add… go to article |
Diana Price |
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31 May 2019 |
Ethnic cleansing
There are inescapable links between William Shakespeare and Warwickshire, even if the modern tourist industry isn't always academically… go to article |
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31 May 2019 |
Drawing wings on the elephant
Evidence Abuse
Camden knew Will
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21 Oct 2018 |
Alexander Waugh has trumpeted a great Oxfordian discovery. In The Spectator (2 November 2013), he wrote:
“I clearly see that my work… go to article |
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