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Whose Handwriting is in the de Vere Geneva Bible?

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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.

A Gratifying Amazon Review of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible

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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 →

What is a Shakespeare Diagnostic? Why should You Care?

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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.

De Vere Geneva Bible Online

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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.

Mistaken Identity: Discovering The Two Cinnas in the Audley End Notes

Shows that one of the most potent passages relevant to the authorship question — namely the murderous confusion of “Cinna the Poet” for “Cinna the Conspirator — by the mob roused to a fury by Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration — is inscribed as an annotation in the Audley End copy of Cassius Dio.

Audley End Annotations Revealed at the Blue Boar Tavern

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 →

Audley End Annotations Show Handwriting of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

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 →

The Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere

Part II of Jonathan Jackson’s “Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere.”

The Audley End Annotations are Not in Sir Henry Neville’s Handwriting

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 →

Forthcoming Article on Audley End Annotations to help Revolutionize Shakespeare Studies

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 →

James Baldwin on the Authorship Question and the Mystery of the Poet

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 →

Handwriting 101: Did the Earl of Oxford Ghostwrite George Peele’s 1596 Letter to Lord Burghley?

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 →

The Moral and Spiritual Vision of Edward de Vere

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?

Milestone Research on Francis Meres Forthcoming in Critical Survey

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 →

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