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Newsweek PDF

17 Mar 2018

A searchable, annotatable pdf of the recent Newsweek article debate with all 1750 comments. Since finding things on the site is distinctly tricky and FB doesn't seem to want to store such a big file… goto

Reverse Engineering

17 Mar 2018

Anyone who worked in the electronics industry in the 1980's will remember the early days of reverse engineering. Computer equipment designed in high tech facilities in Silicon Valley, Glen or Fen… goto

The Smithsonian Folio Tour Thread

17 Mar 2018

Authorship Threadwatch Another longish thread in which no questions get answered. Notable only for the latest tactic of fielding Kamikaze Novice Oxfordians like cc and Bob. The untrained combatants… goto

Bermuda Triangle

16 Mar 2018

An essential task, when planting the shipwreck in the Tempest into the Oxfordian calendar or locating Prospero's island in Italy, is to explain what the 'still-vex'd Bermoothes' might be, while… goto

Tempest

Cipherogratography 101

16 Mar 2018

Ogburn's work on ciphers, along with Roper's and Burghstaler's, is not really all it should be. Like all soi-disant literary cipher-experts, they start with a desired solution and work backwards.… goto

Marlowe, Cipher nonsense

Cipherogratography 101

16 Mar 2018

Ogburn's work on ciphers, along with Roper's and Burghstaler's, is not really all it should be. Like all soi-disant literary cipher-experts, they start with a desired solution and work backwards.… goto

Marlowe, Cipher nonsense

The 19C Irish Novel

16 Mar 2018

The Irish mint offered a clue to Joyce's hidden influences by deliberately misquoting him on the 'Hidden Eye' 10 euro coin, alerting literary detectives everywhere to the mystery and conspiracy… goto

Who Wrote Woody Allen?

16 Mar 2018

Smashing through the Orthodoxy Saxophonist George Coleman handed the world a clue to the WAQ when he said 'the only time he made me laugh was when he picked up a clarinet.' Clearly not talking… goto

Confirmation Bias

11 Mar 2018

Confirmation

A compendium of Oxfordian argument

6 Mar 2018

Collected by John W Kennedy on his site, with additions from argument elsewhere  If you are not acquainted with the anti-Stratfordians, your state is the more gracious, for it is a vice to know… goto

Crackpot test

6 Mar 2018

A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to the Study of Shakespeare's Authorship:1 A -5 point starting credit.  1 point for every statement that is widely… goto

De Vere revealed

6 Mar 2018

Excitement is crackling in the cold February air as journalists wait to discover the identity of a skeleton unearthed in a collection of abandoned supermarket trollies found in a disused car park in… goto

Death Proof

6 Mar 2018

Here on the Oxfraud University Campus, as temperatures rise and the holidays begin, the deadline for another of our internationally famous, rollover scholarships heaves into view. The excitement over… goto

Drawing a blank

6 Mar 2018

Although there are a few hundred lines of verse indisputably attributable to De Vere, none are in the characteristic Shakespearean blank verse or indeed, if one is being exact, any of the metrical… goto

Ed the Undead

6 Mar 2018

Will Kemp, on his dance to Norwich, felt the need to carry a wooden stake, 1 metre in length. Could this have been because he feared De Vere wanted to neck him? Vampires are commonplace in… goto

Hermeneutics

6 Mar 2018

RS arguing for a reassessment (quoting himself while posting anonymously).

Internet Argument 101

6 Mar 2018

Hey, before you post that daft response, remember, Big Art may be watching you! In fact, judging by his expression, he probably is. You just gotta love a German philospher who spells a huge… goto

Pareidolatry

6 Mar 2018

Here at Oxfraud University, we defer to nobody in the physical and mental care of those in our charge. All students on the Authorship Question course must therefore take the following test before the… goto

Poll Results

6 Mar 2018

Which is the silliest Oxfordian argument? 62 voters cast 311 multiple choice votes. The number of choices increased as the poll went on from 3 to 7.  I expected lots of options to be added and… goto

The Gob Particle

6 Mar 2018

The UniVeres is comprised of a number subatomic particles. The Looney Ogburn Boson is primarily responsible for the formation of initial mass/energy and trace elements, measured in terms of… goto

cyrillic

The New Vasari

6 Mar 2018

After a complaint on the Oxfraud Facebook page that bemoaned the lack of variety in recent articles, I have decided to preview my forthcoming book, The New Vasari: The Lives of the Yorkshire… goto

The Shawshank Redemption

6 Mar 2018

A series of Oxfordian Guides to popular plays and films outside the Shakespearean Canon.1. The Shawshank Redemption 1994(?)Directorship (claimed) Frank Darabont Authorship (claimed) Stephen KingThe… goto

The Straw Army

6 Mar 2018

An incredible find was revealed to the public in the university town of Baltimore, today. After a long period of campaigning, a group of Stratfordian historians and archaeologists were finally given… goto

The Vere—ISO 43277

6 Mar 2018

We constantly hear from Oxfordians, as they assess the so-called autobiographical content of Hamlet or Macbeth or even Coriolanus, that 'there are just too many coincidences for [insert name of play… goto

Their Finest Hour

6 Mar 2018

Examples of some of the finest reasoning the Authorship debate can offer. This is, naturally, a work in progress. An Illiterate Effort Greg Koch on something or other Pending translation, we have… goto

What makes Oxfordians tick?

6 Mar 2018

What indeed? ‘Explaining the authorship controversy isn’t a job for a Shakespearean scholar: it’s a job for a pathologist’. —Financial Times - Michael Dobson. Having spent long hours arguing… goto

Dinner Party

5 Mar 2018

Dear Oxfraud Despite my advice (and latterly my RULES), my partner has inadvertently invited an Oxfordian to dinner on Thursday. The last time this happened, there were broken glasses before the main… goto

Integrity test

5 Mar 2018

In the race to complete a list of 100 reasons why Oxford did or did not write Shakespeare's plays, Hank Whittemore's site has taken a strong lead in the final straight and now looks certain to beat… goto

Marlowe

Integrity test article

5 Mar 2018

Dear Oxfraud Despite my advice (and latterly my RULES), my partner has inadvertently invited an Oxfordian to dinner on Thursday. The last time this happened, there were broken glasses before the main… goto

Marlowe

John Milton

5 Mar 2018

Frontispieces Coleridge claimed that the English get their history from Shakespeare and their theology from Milton. John Milton’s father, also called John, was a trustee of the Blackfriars Theatre… goto