The blog entry contests the facile and mistaken argument that Edward de Vere is not the annotator of his own Bible, using photographic evidence of handwriting and underlining in two of the three major ink types in the Bible.
This Pretty Much Seals It – A Review of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible Mark Woodward 5.0 out of 5 stars Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017 Verified Purchaser If some literate but time-pressed friend were to… Continue Reading →
The Blog entry discusses the startling fact pattern of the de Vere Geneva Bible annotations: almost 2/3 of Shakespeare’s most commonly alluded to Bible references are marked or underlined in the book.
Here’s a direct link to the Folger Library’s digitized copy of the de Vere Geneva Bible about which so much has been written in the New York Times and other international publications.
This Blue Boar Tavern kindly sponsored a discussion on the Audley End Annotations in this video recorded two weeks ago. Blue Boar hosts Bonner Miller Cutting, Dorothea Dickerman, Alex McNeil, and Jonathan Dixon — all experienced authorship skeptics — posed… Continue Reading →
A detailed forensic study, forthcoming in the Journal of Forensic Document Examination, of the annotations of six books at Audley End in Essex shows that that they are not made, as sometimes supposed, by Sir Henry Neville, but by Edward… Continue Reading →
Here’s the first of what will be many videos on the Audley End Annotations, sponsored by the Shakespeare Authorship Trust and the and posted to Youtube in April 2022. The video shows with detailed analysis why the annotations are not,… Continue Reading →
Nearly a year ago the De Vere Society Newsletter published several brief first impressions of the content of the Audley End Annotations, following my April 2022 discussion of the handwriting question for the Shakespeare Authorship Trust. The Authorship Trust lecture… Continue Reading →
In James Baldwin’s uncollected works, The Cross of Redemption, falling in between “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” and “We Can Change the Country” on one side, and “The Uses of the Blues” on the other, is Baldwin’s “Why I Stopped… Continue Reading →
Roger Stritmatter In a Winter 2022 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Newsletter article, “Who Wrote George Peele’s “Only Extant Letter,” Robert Prechter conducts an analysis claiming to establish that a 1595 letter sent to William Cecil, describing a literary work written by… Continue Reading →
Eastern Christianity remains the most poetical and art-affirming of Christian traditions, developing an ethos that is much closer to the spirit of Shakespeare than seen in the western Churches. Was there significant influence from this earlier Christian tradition that helped the poet transcend the most polemical elements of the Catholic-Protestant conflict?
Critical Survey, an established peer-reviewed academic journal edited by Professor Graham Holderness at Hertfordshire University, has accepted for publication a 13,000-word study of Frances Meres’ Palladis Tamia (1598) and its role in the authorship debate. The new article, “Francis Meres… Continue Reading →
Originally posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 22, 2013 In a recent blog entry I cited some evidence for what appears to be a renewed campaign to make Professor Alan Nelson the face of scholarship when it comes to all… Continue Reading →
Bob Meyers interviews me on the newest volume in the Brief Chronicles series, Shakespeare and the Law: How the Bard’s Legal Knowledge Affects the Authorship Question (2022). The book is also gaining a series of solid recommendations and reviews on… Continue Reading →
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