Oberon celebrates Shakespeare's UN-birthday April 16, 2011

The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group will host

Shakespeare's UN-birthday celebration

2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16

Laurel Park Place Mall

37700 West Six Mile Road, Livonia, MI 48152

Everyone is welcome and attendees will receive a slice of UN-birthday cake! The celebration will include a panel discussion of the Shakespeare authorship question by:

Oberon Chair R. Thomas Hunter, PhD,
Oberon founder and Shakespeare Oxford Society President Richard Joyrich,MD
Oberon Treasurer Thomas Townsend

Although the Shakespeare authorship question has puzzled Shakespeare lovers for centuries, the topic is intriguing new devotees because Roland Emmerich will release Anonymous -- a major motion picture about the Shakespeare authorship with Vanessa Redgrave, Joey Richardson, Rhys Ifans, and David Thewlis -- this fall.

The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group UN-birthday celebration is featured as part of the Michigan Spring Book Festival held April 15-17 from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from noon until 5 p.m. on Sunday at Laurel Park Place.

The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group is a Michigan group dedicated to the study of the works of William Shakespeare with particular interest in the authorship question. We meet monthly at the Farmington Community Library.

Update 04/10/11: Observer & Eccentric staff writer Sharon Dargay wrote about the Michigan Spring Book Festival in an article titled, "New festival brings authors, books, readers together" published 04/10/11.

Sources:

Michigan Spring Book Festival, http://www.michiganspringbookfestival.info/
Laurel Park Place, http://www.laurelparkplace.com/shop/laurel.nsf/index
Anonymous trailer, http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30649
Oberon Shakespeare Study Group: http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com

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