Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

James A. Warren at work on  J. Thomas Looney’s Shakespeare Identified: The 100th Anniversary of the Book that is Revolutionizing Shakespeare Studies in his Cary, NC office, February 27, 2020 Researcher James A. Warren told us that he hopes to publish J. Thomas Looney’s Shakespeare Identified: The 100th Anniversary of the Book that is Revolutionizing Shakespeare Studies by the end of this 2020 centennial year. On February 6, 2020, Warren reported: "I have just finished the first draft of the SI book, after 93 consecutive 12-hour days. I need to do more research, though, and now expect to finish the book near the end of this year." Warren became interested in public response to Looney’s identification of Shakespeare as Edward DeVere, seventeenth earl of Oxford, while producing his own 2012 An Index to Oxfordian Publications , currently in its fourth edition (Forever Press, 2017). Warren’s list of Shakespeare Identified reviews and articles publ

The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group joins the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, the DeVere Society, and Shakespeare lovers everywhere in celebrating the centennial of the March 4, 1920 publication of Shakespeare Identified as Edward DeVere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford by J. Thomas Looney. Oberons will host a luncheon party at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at Paesano Restaurant and Wine Bar, 3411 Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor. The event is open to the public; tickets are $25 per plate; the reservations deadline is March 27, 2020. For information and reservations contact Linda Theil at mailto:linda.theil@gmail.com. We hope that Shakespeare devotees near and far will join us in this once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the brave and brilliant  J. Thomas Looney and the revolution in Shakespeare studies that his love of the work has brought us. UPDATE March 18, 2020: This event has been cancelled . During an Oberon Shakespeare Study Group telephone meeting on March 14, the g