Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Cheryl Eagan-Donovan at Shakespeare Authorship Studies conference April 12, 2012 Director Cheryl Eagan-Donovan reports on her film, Nothing Is Truer Than Truth : I wanted to let your group know about my new Kickstarter campaign to raise [$25,000]  finishing funds for my film Nothing Is Truer Than Truth . I screened an  excerpt from the film at the Concordia [Shakespeare Authorship Studies] Conference [on April 13, 2012]. . . .  The total budget for the film is less than one million dollars, and we are working toward festival a debut in 2012. . . .   Funding received to date has been generously provided by individual donors and by a grant from Shakespeare Fellowship Foundation. For more information about the film, go to:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027553076/nothing-is-truer-than-truth-finishing-funds?ref=email or www.controversyfilms.com . From Eagan-Donovan's press release on the new fundraising campaign: Director Cheryl Eagan-Donovan...

During the just-concluded 16th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon (which I hope to describe in an upcoming post) I had the opportunity to see a very unusual production of Shake-Speare's Sonnets in Portland (Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, another conference attendee) went along with me). Note that this was definitely NOT part of the Conference; we went on our own after the Conference events were finished for the day. There were only two other people in the audience with us. I am curious as to what they thought of the performance. The production was very "avant-garde" (a term I got from Cheryl; I would have said "incomprehensible"). It was done (as you may be able to see in the above advertising poster) by the Fuse Theatre Ensemble at the Q Center in Portland. This is the community center for the Gay and Lesbian community in Portland and is quite a nice place. The intent of the production was to show how the Sonnets...

Mark your calendars for the next (the 16th) Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, to be held April 12-14, 2012. It should be a great (and informative) time, as usual for this Conference. Here is a posting by Professor Daniel Wright, director of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Center (SARC) and leader of the Conference: Friends, It’s nearing that time – spring time! – conference time! – once again! The 16 th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University will convene for three days from April 12 through April 14 this year. Sessions will run from 6pm – 9pm on Thursday the 12 th ; from 9am – 5pm on Friday the 13 th ; and from 9am – 5pm on Saturday the 14 th . Registration is $165. This year, the university’s Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Scholarship will be conferred on Katherine Chiljan for her outstanding new study, Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and H...

Roland Emmerich's Shakespeare authorship film,  Anonymous, will debut at the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference held Sept 6-9, 2011 at Concordia University, home of the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre headed by Daniel Wright, PhD.  Wright said: I hope  that  many  people  will come here to the conference to see Emmerich while he is in the USA and on the Concordia University campus, and I hope that, accordingly, they will sign up for the conference to see the film and participate in the proceedings of the conference which will include discussion and Q&A time with Roland Emmerich and various Shakespeare scholars. It's the rarest of opportunities and of great historic impor t - a  moment that will not return agai n!  We think it a great investment  in opening the discussion up to a broader community  that should yield some far-reaching results for the Shakespeare authorship question in the USA. . . .  Emmerich ’...

As the only Oberoner to attend, I will take this opportunity to report on what happened during the four days of the 14 th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Conference, held at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon Day 1 —Thursday, April 8, 2010 The Conference convened at 4:00 PM. First up was Mark Goggin on "The Case for Bacon as the Author of Julius Caesar ". Mr. Goggin focused on the underlying symbolism and allusions of the play and how it is all about using rhetoric for persuasion. Of course Bacon was a master of rhetoric. Bacon also wrote the most of any writer at the time about the psychology of decision making, another important theme in this play. Mr. Goggin went through the usual "qualifications" that the writer Shakespeare must have had, such as knowledge of law, medicine, music, military matters, and the new astronomy as well as possessing a large vocabulary. Bacon fits the bill quite well. (Of course so does Edward deVere and, in my own opinion, ...