Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Yesterday, Oberon member Susan Nenadic  reported this encounter in Ann Arbor: A woman who had taken my Shakespeare Authorship Controversy class came to the program I presented today and handed me a note indicating that the Petit Larousse from a 1965 biographical entry of Shakespeare calls into doubt the authorship by Stratford Will. I Wonder how many other foreign language sources do the same thing. Oberon member Rey Perez followed up with this information from the 2001 edition of Larouse : The online Larousse dictionary of literature, 2001 edition, in the entry “Shakespeare (William)” from its first sentence begins by expressing doubts about the traditional authorship, then continues with the bare facts about Shakespeare from  Stratford . The key sentence is the second, that some have seen in him a pseudonym for others, such as  Oxford . The French seem way ahead of the rest of us. Rey provided this link to the dictionary item on William Shakespeare: http://...

Oberon colleague Susan Nenadic of Ann Arbor will teach a Lifelong Learning non-credit class on the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy at Washtenaw Community College this fall. Four weekly sessions from 6-8 p.m. will begin September 20 and run through October 11, 2011 on the Ypsilanti campus of WCC. Registration information will be available when the fall classes are posted July 13, 2011 on the college website at: http://www.wccnet.edu/lifelong-learning/ Nenadic taught history and English in Saline Area Schools. Since her retirement in 2004, she has taught women’s history for non-credit programs at WCC , the University of Michigan , and Eastern Michigan University . She has completed a book about nineteenth-century working women titled A Purse of Her Own , and is currently consulting with a publisher. Recently, while discussing ideas for non-credit classes at WCC, a new administrator asked: “What else can you say about Shakespeare?” Nenadic replied, “I can tell you he didn’t ...