Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

by Richard Joyrich Last year, after some discussion among remaining members of the original Oberon Shakespeare Study Group, we decided to liquidate the remaining Oberon treasury --which was no longer needed for such things as meeting space rental and social events -- and donate the funds. Accordingly, the funds were split into a donation to the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship and a donation to the Aim High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Aim HS is a private school that caters to students with language-based learning differences, anxiety disorders, and attention deficits. Further information on this school is available at aimhighschool.com . Our donation was made as part of Giving Tuesday, on December 2, 2024, and the funds were designated to be used by the school to further its English Literature teaching program. It turns out that there is a good concentration of Shakespeare in their curriculum. The students read Shakespeare, watch videos, and also par...

Bonner Cutting and Richard Joyrich, MD at SOF 2025 conference in New Haven, CT by Linda Theil The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship awarded Oberon co-founder and chairman Richard Joyrich, MD the 2025 Tom Regnier Veritas Award at their annual conference on September 20, 2025 in New Haven, Connecticut. SOF Vice-president Bonner Miller Cutting presented the award citing Joyrich's decades of service to the Oxfordian mission, his lifelong devotion to, and encyclopedic knowledge of the works of William Shakespeare, and his enormous contribution to the SOF as board member, past-president, conference committee stalwart, and conference tech support. "There would be no conference without Richard and his computer," Cutting said. Oberon members Joy and Tom Townsend were able to congratulate Joyrich in person, as they had traveled from their home in Seattle to attend the New Haven conference. "I sat next to Richard during most of the conference," Joy Townsend said. "I had ...

Title page: Is Shakespeare Dead: From My Autobiography by Mark Twain, 1909 by Linda Theil A major project involving creating a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote should include at least the names of all the author's published works, but after twenty years of toil, The Mark Twain Project Online  has no plans to even mention  Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography by Mark Twain -- a book published by Harper & Brothers Publishing in 1909, a year before the author's demise. Oberon addressed this topic in a 2016 post titled "Mark Twain's benighted book" featuring background information about the Mark Twain Project Online and the absence of Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography from the project site. Nine years later, we still find no mention of Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography on the Mark Twain Project Onlline. When we queried the site regarding this omission, we received the following information from ...