Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Oxfordian of the year! Roger Stritmatter, PhD was named Oxfordian of the Year at the 2013 Shakespeare Oxford Society/Shakespeare Fellowship joint conference held at the Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, October 17-20. SOS President John Hamill and SF President Tom Regnier, JD announce the results of the unification vote. Members of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (138 to two) and the Shakespeare Fellowship (74 to four) voted in favor of unification. Hamill will assume presidency of the unified organization, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, when legal papers are filed today. Update 10/22/13: Ann Zakelj posted a video of the presidents signing the new bylaws at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQK7J2d9r8&sns=em . Shakespeare Authorship Coalition Director John Shahan spoke to attendees at the conference banquet about what they can do to forward the cause of anti-Stratfordian research: 1. read and sign the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt , 2. share auth...

by Richard Joyrich As you know, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) has come out with their new book, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt , which they believe will settle this whole Authorship Question once and for all. They couldn't be more wrong! Tom Regnier, current President of the Shakespeare Fellowship, has written a remarkable review of this new book. His review will be published in the next issue of Shakespeare Matters (the quarterly Shakespeare Fellowship newsletter), but you can read it here . You can believe that the discussion will continue to go on. The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (SAC) has already published a book in response to Shakespeare Beyond Doubt , called Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (the similarity in title is of course intentional). See previous posts on this blog for more information on this. I will just say here that the SAC book actually has the evidence and argument that the SBT's book completely lacks (despite its subtitle: Evidence, Argument, Con...