Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Shelly Maycock and Roger Stritmatter at the "Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography" conference held April 3-5, 2014 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Photo credit: Bill Boyle by Linda Theil The anti-Strat community was well represented among the 156 Shakespeare luminaries who attended the "Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography" conference sponsored by the Folger Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 3-5, 2014  at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC . Anti-Strat attendees included: William Boyle, MA  Library and Information Science, owner of the New England Shakespeare Oxford Library , Forever Press, and EverReader weblog Peter Dickson, MA author of  Bardgate: Shake-speare and the Royalists Who Stole the Bard , Kissinger and the Meaning of History (Cambridge Press, 1978) Shelly Maycock Roger Stritmatter, PhD James Warren, author of An Index to Oxfordian Publications Richard Waugaman, M...

by Linda Theil The Folger Institute has extended the deadline for National Endowment for the Humanities grants to support travel and lodging to their “Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography” conference to be held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC on April 3-5, 2014. The new deadline for aid applications is February 14, 2014. NEH grants are available to qualified graduate students and faculty from US institutions and may be applied for online at the Folger Shakespeare Library: info at “Scholarly Programs Application Guidelines” and “The Folger Institute Application forAdmission” . Enrollment to the conference is open to all, and those who are not applying for grants must send a registration form that is available online and the $50 registration fee to arrive at the Folger no later than March 21, 2014. I was delighted to hear that the great Folger plans to address the issue of the Shakespeare authorship and I read the conference précis with interest: Th...