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Poetry/Prose converter

5 Mar 2018

There's not very much demand for this device, it has to be admitted. In fact I can't see it making its reserve on ebay. The range of poetry on which it operates successfully just isn't big enough to… goto

Court Matters

Professor Shapiro reacts

5 Mar 2018

Shakespeare in Love is a hugely interesting comparison with Anonymous. One has a novel and revolutionary new perspective, one is conventional and dull in the extreme. One is full of… goto

Pyramid Scheme

5 Mar 2018

The Ankerwycke Yew To a novice, Oxfordian architecture seems largely based on sandcastle design. It appears to have no substance or foundation, vulnerable to being washed flat by the next tide. Yet… goto

Nishidani

Synonymity

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

Christopher Marlowe

4 Mar 2018

Christopher Marlowe's candidacy pre-dates De Vere's by some 20 years and has a great deal going for it. There is one major hurdle to overcome. If De Vere was dead before a third of the plays were… goto

Footloose

4 Mar 2018

Footloose and fancy free What meane thei thus to fret and fume? What meane thei thus to fare? What meane thei thus on me to glume? Whi was I not of it aware? Is this—? Could this—? O my God… goto

Henry Neville

4 Mar 2018

Who? A recent entry in the field and an altogether trickier contestant, Henry Neville was a close associate of the Earl of Southampton and was incarcerated after the Essex rebellion along with the… goto

Inked Out: Appendix

4 Mar 2018

Oxlets12 Appendix: Comparative Orthography, Hand D and Oxford's Letters   Oxfordians who mock the spelling "Shaksper" ought to look more closely at Lord Oxford's letters. An… goto

Mmmm! BACON!

4 Mar 2018

Perhaps we should give some recognition for the man who, if not a "better" candidate, at least has the primacy of place: Bacon. Before there were Oxenfraudian fantasies, there were Baconian… goto

Marlowe

Reason for reasons

4 Mar 2018

Can Shakespeare’s true identity be worth all the effort that has been expended on supporting all the different candidates in the authorship debate?  Well, you might as well ask why does… goto

Monument

Sheiken, not stirred

4 Mar 2018

A little south of Basra, now merged into the Basra metropolitan area, is the small - 60,000 currently - city of Zubayr.  In times past, though, it was an emirite, its Emir being entitled to the… goto

The Countess of Pembroke

4 Mar 2018

Persuasion If I could save two of my books from a conflagration, one of them would be Persuasion by Jane Austen. One of the greatest novelists of the 19C and an unsurpassed prose stylist and satirist… goto

Titus Andronicus

Thomas Bayes and Elliott–Valenza

4 Mar 2018

Is “Hand D” of Sir Thomas More Shakespeare’s? Thomas Bayes and the Elliott–Valenza Authorship Tests. Macdonald P Jackson Briefly…The early days of computer stylometry were hopeful ones… goto

Ogburn

What Oxfordians say

4 Mar 2018

The Oxfordian response to the inclusion of a whole section of our site devoted to Hand D has been scant, so far. We'll add bits and pieces as we find them. They are of course, welcome to add… goto

Diana Price

3 Mar 2018

Diana Price's Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography (2001) [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… goto

Edward III, The Comedy of Errors

Diana Price

3 Mar 2018

Diana Price's Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography (2001) [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… goto

Edward III, The Comedy of Errors

Handwriting Home

3 Mar 2018

  It is time to talk of Handwriting.   Oxfordians believe that Shakespeare left nothing behind. In fact, their claims depend entirely on this being true. They believe that Edward, 17th… goto

Popular Disqus Commented articles

3 Mar 2018

Popular discussions on Disqus. We can't sort on Disqus comments as they won't release the data in integer form. So these are sorted by popularity.

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3 Mar 2018

To look only at a few of the most striking contrasts with Oxford’s orthography, take:vi. ck for k after n.In Hand D, we find banck and thanck. This pattern strongly survives in the Quartos and poems… goto

Testing handwriting

3 Mar 2018

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THREAD

3 Mar 2018

Untitled Document  Keir Cutler8 hrsI am interested in developing an argument around the ever expanding Shakespeare's collaborators theory. Does anyone remember, or better yet have a textual… goto

What makes Oxfordians tick?

3 Mar 2018

 ‘Explaining the authorship controversy isn’t a job for a  Shakespearean scholar: it’s a job for a pathologist’. Michael Dobson.  Having spent long hours arguing with Oxfordians , I… goto

Declaration of Reasonable Elimination

2 Mar 2018

Problems The three central problems for Stratfordians are: Oxfordians do not have a coherent case to defend. There is no overall summary or manifesto which currently explains their position.… goto

J. Thomas Looney

2 Mar 2018

  J. Thomas Looney, born into a humble background, was a school teacher in the not very stylish and remote, highly unfashionable town of Gateshead.  A savage, cultural wasteland in the icy… goto

John Davies of Hereford

2 Mar 2018

Conclusive contemporary reference John Davies of Hereford's poem of 1610, written in the present tense to Will Shake-speare (with the hyphen six years after De Vere died) provides all the… goto

Court Matters

Richard Hunt

2 Mar 2018

Richard Hunt was the vicar of Bishop's Inchington (yes there is such a place) near Stratford-Upon-Avon. He was born around 1596 and is famous for precisely nothing, having written absolutely… goto

Article Index

1 Mar 2018

Ben Jonson

27 Feb 2018

Principal Ben Jonson wrote a famous and extensive verse introduction to the Preface to Shakespeare's First Folio. It wasn't the first compliment he paid to Will. That appeared in the First Folio… goto

Sir Thomas More

Jonathan Swift

27 Feb 2018

Jonathan Swift, like any brilliant satirist, centuries ahead of his time, discusses Oxfordian Scholarship techniques in Chapter V of Gulliver's Travels. We crossed a walk to the other part of the… goto

Logan Pearsall Smith

27 Feb 2018

Hit. Nail. Head. On Reading Shakespeare In one of his letters Henry James describes how ignobly fond he had become as he grew older of not travelling ; ‘to keep up not doing it’ he writes, ‘is in… goto