Oberons got the right (double) stuff!

Sharon Hunter, Rosey Hunter, (unseen) Pam Verilone, Richard Joyrich, and Robin Browne confer at

March 12, 2016 Oberon meeting at Bloomfield Twp. library -- discussion fortified by Oreo Double-stuff!

Present but not pictured: Linda Theil and Rey Perez.

by Linda Theil

Fortified with Oreo Double-stuff cookies, Oberons met March 15, 2016 to discuss upcoming events.

Oberons plan to attend Shapiro lecture in Stratford, Ontario
June 18, 2016
Several members have purchased tickets and plan to attend James Shapiro's lecture on "The Scottish Play" at 10:30 a.m. June 18, 2016 in the Studio Theatre, Stratford Ontario. The lecture is part of the Stratford Festival Forum series of lectures. Tickets are $20 Canadian.

Oberons host "Reasonable Doubt about Shakespeare" at UM-Flint
April 24, 2016

Oberons discussed plans to will host an event -- "Reasonable Doubt about Shakespeare" -- a discussion of the Shakespeare authorship question, and the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition's "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" at:

2 p.m., Sunday, April 24, 2016

Happenings Room
University Center Building, main floor

University of Michigan - Flint,

303 E. Kearsley St., Flint MI.

Park at Mill Street ramp or lot, open to public on weekends. A campus map and directions are available on the University of Michigan - Flint website.

Oberons examine 2015 yearbook

We viewed a hard copy of the Oberon Shakespeare Study Group Yearbook 2015 , available free in ebook format from Blurb. Print-on-demand hard copies may be ordered from Blurb. A PDF version is also available for $4.99.

Waugaman named Oxfordian of the Year 2021

by Linda Theil Waugaman taking his first selfie in his home office in Potomac Maryland The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship named Richard Waugaman, MD, Oxfordian of the Year 2021 at their annual conference on October 9, 2021. Waugaman is a clinical professor of psychiatry on the faculty of Georgetown University, a training and supervising analyst emeritus with the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and is in private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Potomac, Maryland. For over a decade Waugaman has published extensively on the topic of Shakespeare authorship including work in journals outside the normal reach of the subject such as Psychoanalytic Quarterly , the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies , and Contemporary Psychoanalysis . He has presented on the topic before such diverse venues as the International Psychoanalytic Congress, the New Directions Conference, the Shakespeare Association of America, the American Shakespeare Center, and the Cosmos Club in ...

What's a popp'rin' pear?

James Wheaton reported yesterday in the Jackson Citizen Patriot that the Michigan Shakespeare Festival high school tour of Romeo and Juliet was criticized for inappropriate content -- " So me take issue with sexual innuendoes in Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s High School Tour performances of ‘Romeo & Juliet’" : Western [High School] parent Rosie Crowley said she was upset when she heard students laughing about sexual content in the play afterwards. Her son didn’t attend the performance Tuesday because of another commitment, she said. “I think the theater company should have left out any references that were rated R,” Crowley said. “I would say that I’ve read Shakespeare, and what I was told from the students, I’ve never read anything that bad.” She said she objected to scenes that involved pelvic thrusting and breast touching and to a line in which Mercutio makes suggestive comments to Romeo after looking up the skirt of a female. The problem with cutting out...

Dudley nails it to the door

Michael Dudley author of The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosphy: Knowledge, Rhetoric, Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) Michael Dudley views his vocation of librarian at the University of Manitoba with dialectic rigor. "Librarianship has a duty to inform democracy," he said in Kathryn Sharpe's virtual bookclub on April 27, 2024. Dudley discussed his new book The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy: Knowledge, Rhetoric, Identity published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing last fall. Update 08/21/24 Dudley's book is also available as an ebook from Google Play . In SAQ and Philosophy Dudley uses the hammer of logic to nail his accusations against the barricaded door of the Shakespeare citadel. "The question of Shakespeare's authorship is a malformed debate practiced in an unethical fashion," Dudley said. When asked why his book is important, Dudley said: "What sets my book apart from others on the authorship quest...

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