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Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship trustee Earl Showerman, MD, said today that he will serve as interim director for the Richard Paul and Jane Roe Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre  (SARC) annual Shakespeare authorship studies conference at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon on April 11-13, 2014. Acting as ambassador for the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship board of trustees, Showerman traveled to Portland this week to confer with Dr. David Kluth -- dean of the Concordia University College of Theology, Arts and Sciences -- who is acting as interim director of SARC since the center's founder and director Daniel Wright, PhD, is no longer employed by the university. (See "Dan Wright leaves Concordia U."  Jan. 29, 2014) A statement by Showerman along with a preliminary roster of conference speakers was posted today on the SOF webpage at "Showerman to act as interim chairperson of SARC annual conference". Update: January 25, 2014 SOF News: "Keir Cut...

Earl Showerman reported on the Shakespeare authorship conference to be held in Toronto October 17-20, 2013: North America’s two leading Oxfordian associations – the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society – are pleased to announce that their  2013 Joint Conference will take place in  Toronto ,  Canada  from October 17 to 20, 2013 . The Joint Conference , held with the support of the Theatre and Drama departments of   York   University  and the  University  of  Guelph , two major Canadian universities,  will take as its theme “Shakespeare and the Living Theatre.” “The man who wrote under the name of Shakespeare,  “said conference organizer Professor Don Rubin of  Toronto ’s  York   University , “was clearly a man of the theatre. We know that William of Stratford had connections to the Globe but few people know that the 17 th  Earl of Oxford, also had significant theatre co...

by Linda Theil Shakespeare Fellowship trustee and immediate past president Earl Showerman  kicked off his fourth year teaching the Shakespeare authorship question at Southern Oregon University’s Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute with a class titled,  titled, " The Shakespeare Authorship Challenge: State of the Debate 2013" . Following the first day of class on April 17, 2013, Showerman said: I have about 20 in class, half-of-whom are already converts. Not exactly preaching to the converted, but it is fun to see how people really light up when they get an idea about what is at stake and the terms of the discussion. . . . The SBT (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) polemic, “Shakespeare Bites Back” was discussed yesterday as a way [of] showing them how threatened and vitriolic are our critics. We'll use Steve McClarran's second edition of   I Come to BuryShaksper , (2011) (available later this month I understand) as a primary text.   Showerman also intends to discu...

According to an article titled "Dr. Bill? Retired physician says medical lingo betrays Shakespeare" in the March 12, 2012 issue of Ashland Daily Tidings , Shakespeare Fellowship President Earl Showerman will teach a class called "The Shakespeare Authorship Question" from May 8 through June 5 at Southern Oregon University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. For more information, visit  www.sou.edu/olli/courses.shtml  or call OLLI Coordinator Sally Klein at 541-552-6048.

Shakespeare Fellowship president Earl Showerman reported Tuesday (June 14, 2011) that the fellowship has issued a statement about Roland Emmerich's upcoming film on the Shakespeare authorship question, Anonymous . Showerman said: A majority of the trustees of the Shakespeare Fellowship recently approved  a statement regarding the anticipated plot of Roland Emmerich's feature film, Anonymous. This statement will be published later this year in  Shakespeare Matters, the newsletter of the Shakespeare Fellowship. The entire statement is available on the Shakespeare Fellowship News page under the title "SF board re: Prince Tudor: The Shakespeare Fellowship commends Roland Emmerich for directing the film, Anonymous, but stresses that this production’s 'Prince Tudor' narratives are not essential to the theory that the Earl of Oxford was the writer 'Shakespeare.'" UPDATE 7/15/11: This statement was repudiated by the SF board July 15, 2011. See "Fello...