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Return to Planet of the Poet Apes

3 Apr 2018

Waugh, Poet Ape

Riddled with errors

3 Apr 2018

Sketch of Ankerwycke Priory by J M Turner “It is simply a story. It’s true to me.” “Yea Hercules with yong children, Agesilaus with his sonne, Socrates with Alcibiades, Architas with his… goto

The Tempest Teapot

3 Apr 2018

Tempest

Weetabix

3 Apr 2018

While flicking through my pictures of the Mid-West, I came across the bright colours you see here on a very dull day. In Mitchell, South Dakota, there is a palace built of corn cobs. A large… goto

Dating The Tempest

2 Apr 2018

David Kathman Introduction Though Oxfordians consistently try to deny it, one of the biggest problems for their theory is The Tempest, which can be dated with virtual certainty as having been… goto

Strachey

Tempest

Diana Price’s Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography (2001)

2 Apr 2018

Professor Alan Nelson on Paper Trails [For Price's reply and my reply to her reply see below.] Diana Price knows how to put a sentence together, but she does not know how to put an argument… goto

Diana Price

Did Earls really write plays?

2 Apr 2018

Yes and no. How’s that for an answer? Elizabeth 1’s reign saw the great rift between the amateur and professional writer turn into a bottomless chasm only crossed by writers who could sell their… goto

Even Hawking

2 Apr 2018

I know a hawk from a handsaw,said Hamlet while plotting in Elsinore;but the Bard sadly erred - it was really a bird,not a carpenter's tool that the Prince saw. If De Vere wrote… goto

Falconry

Hamlet (1599–1601)

Fusina

2 Apr 2018

Click bottom right to advance the slides. This was a Lovely day in late September. All argument aside, this is the way to arrive in Venice. Not over the Bridge and into the terrible car parks. There… goto

Italy

Giraffe gaffe

2 Apr 2018

Alexander Waugh has trumpeted a great Oxfordian discovery. In The Spectator (2 November 2013), he wrote: “Researching a new book on Shakespeare’s sonnets, I stumbled upon an astonishing piece… goto

Waugh

Hardly ever sick at sea

2 Apr 2018

What never? Hardly Ever? On such a full sea are we now afloat;  And we must take the current when it serves,  Or lose our ventures Shakespeare's seamanship provides a classic example of… goto

Failed argument

Hamlet (1599–1601), Tempest

Hh-education

2 Apr 2018

“I swear by God’s body, I’d rather that my son should hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to blow the horn nicely, to hunt skillfully and elegantly, carry and train a hawk… goto

Education

Is it important?

2 Apr 2018

  Yes. Surely all that really matters to the modern reader is that we have a body of work containing both drama and poetry, never equalled in English or any other language. We have no idea… goto

Letter from America

2 Apr 2018

A tale from the early days of Authorship Doubters, with sincere apologies to Alistair Cooke. Good evening. Once, in the early 30's, I was travelling through The Panhandle in the tornado season when… goto

Strachey

Tempest

Persuasion

2 Apr 2018

Oxford as a brilliant writer is a construct, all made up of fantasy and theft. “What he hath left us” is a dismal little heap of slag. So then his cultists must appropriate the words of Shakespeare… goto

Oxford's writing

Riot gear

2 Apr 2018

Coriolanus’ date Is 1608  “ONE of the beauties of the Oxfordian theory is that it brings to life about two-thirds of the canon otherwise tending to be ignored; Coriolanus is a perfect example… goto

Coriolanus

The Italian Job

2 Apr 2018

'Almost no Oxfordian argument has wasted more bandwidth than Will's knowledge of Italy. The arguments have a unique brand of silliness all their own. We revisited this subject here… goto

Italy

Tempest, The Merchant of Venice

Unequivocal

2 Apr 2018

Macbeth is a Jacobean play, through and through. It celebrates the accession of James VI & I, and his descent through a true line of  Scottish kings, foreseen to “stretch out to the crack… goto

Chronology

Macbeth (1606)

Waughbait—The Oxfordian Empire Strikes Back

2 Apr 2018

What's this article doing here??… goto

Failed argument

Why is there an authorship ‘debate’, anyway?

2 Apr 2018

Isolating the bug up the Oxfordian backside Schopenhauer on genius It is a persistent, uninterrupted activity that constitutes the superior mind. The object to which this activity is… goto

Wracke and Redemption

2 Apr 2018

Dating William STRACHEY’S ‘A TRUE REPORTORY OF THE WRACKE AND REDEMPTION OF SIR THOMAS GATES’: A comparative textual study In their article published in the September 2007, Review of… goto

Stritmatter, Strachey

Tempest

Wracke and Redemption

2 Apr 2018

Dating William STRACHEY’S ‘A TRUE REPORTORY OF THE WRACKE AND REDEMPTION OF SIR THOMAS GATES’: A comparative textual study In their article published in the September 2007, Review of… goto

Stritmatter, Strachey

Tempest

2. The Dissertation

1 Apr 2018

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery...  I tremble every day lest something should ‘turn up’.”—Charles Dickens  On his website, called Shak-… goto

Bible

A W Pollard

1 Apr 2018

A W Pollard by Frank Brook. The British Library. Click on the link below to download Pdf of the CUP 1923 edition of Pollard's book, Shakespeare's Hand in The Play of Sir Thomas More… goto

Sir Thomas More  (1592–1604)

Hand D home

1 Apr 2018

The debate on authenticity is over Hand D belongs to one of six different individuals, five authors and one scribe, who contributed to the manuscript of Sir Thomas More, now in the British Library… goto

Sir Thomas More  (1592–1604)

404

31 Mar 2018

404  O hateful error, melancholy's child, Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? We're sorry, you might have asked for something that isn't… goto

500 Words

30 Mar 2018

500 words…      (from Oxford's core poetical work, V&A and Hero & Leander)† Not proof of anything, just early experiments with PCA tables… goto

The Upstart Crowbar

30 Mar 2018

Tired to death There can be few topics in the Shakespeare authorship debate which have engendered as much nonsense as Robert Greene's complaint about an Upstart Crow treading on his toes.… goto

Was Shakespeare an actor?

30 Mar 2018

A 2.1 Was Will of Stratford an Actor Mark Johnson Week 1 · a month ago Shakespeare was a "fellow" player: 1. The court payment in 1595 to "William Kempe William Shakespeare &… goto

Will WAS an Actor

30 Mar 2018

Shakespeare was an actor, period. It's not a matter of dispute. David Kathman Week 3 · 9 days ago · Edited Part 1   Getting serious By Week 3, things were getting a… goto