Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Earl Showerman reported on the Shakespeare authorship conference to be held in Toronto October 17-20, 2013: North America’s two leading Oxfordian associations – the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society – are pleased to announce that their  2013 Joint Conference will take place in  Toronto ,  Canada  from October 17 to 20, 2013 . The Joint Conference , held with the support of the Theatre and Drama departments of   York   University  and the  University  of  Guelph , two major Canadian universities,  will take as its theme “Shakespeare and the Living Theatre.” “The man who wrote under the name of Shakespeare,  “said conference organizer Professor Don Rubin of  Toronto ’s  York   University , “was clearly a man of the theatre. We know that William of Stratford had connections to the Globe but few people know that the 17 th  Earl of Oxford, also had significant theatre co...

Students at Shakespeare authorship seminar at York University April 7, 2012 Richard Joyrich, MD gave an excellent overview of “Shakespeare: The Authorship Question” seminar hosted by Professor Don Rubin at York University on April 7, 2012 in his article, “York University Tackles the Authorship Question” . The seminar was planned and executed by students under Rubin’s direction as the culmination of their participation in his Shakespeare authorship course held during the winter semester. “Two years ago I suggested we offer a course and got the usual laughter,” Rubin said. “A friend tried to stop me from making a fool of myself. After debate and stubbornness on my part, I offered the course. We cut off the class enrollment at 30 members, and 26 students finished. I thank my students; they were the primary researchers. My goal is to make them all understand just how odd the connections are between the author and Shaksper.” His success was demonstrated during the culminat...

Patricia Keeney reading "Shakespeare in Space" York. U. April 7, 2012 Poet Patricia Keeney read her poem "Shakespeare in Space" at the York University seminar titled "Shakespeare: The Authorship Question" held April 7, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. Keeney is professor of English and creative writing at the university and is married to conference organizer Don Rubin. Together they attended the 2009 SF/SOS Shakespeare authorship conference held in Houston where Keeney was inspired to compose "Shakespeare in Space". Keeney said: What inspired the poem is contained in the little headnote under the title. That first (for me) conference in Houston with the Oxfordians was a revelation. Combined with our tour of the space centre, it gave me two whole sets of languages with which to express what I think is really a call to take risks in our thinking, especially in academia which should be all about discovery and exploration, intelligent adventure! ...

Lamberto Tassinari Christopher Innes, David Prosser, Don Rubin, Michel Vais, Keir Cutler, Mark Anderson This past weekend Linda Theil and I represented Oberon at an Authorship Conference at York University in Toronto. This conference was organized by Professor Donald Rubin of the Theatre Department at York University as a culmination of a semester long seminar he taught at that university over the winter (more on this course in a later post). The conference was very enjoyable. Don Rubin was an excellent host and I was glad to meet him again (he had been at the Joint SOS/SF conferences in Houston and Washington). The conference began at 11:00 on Saturday with some opening remarks by Professor Rubin, in which he described how he became interested in the Authorship Question after reading Mark Anderson’s Shakespeare By Another Name and how he was very happy to have taught a course on the subject (over some objections by fellow faculty members at the University). Many, if...

York University, Toronto (Center for Film & Theatre on left) Professor Don Rubin of the York University Department of Theatre in Toronto, Canada has sent information about the public seminar titled "Shakespeare:  The Authorship Question" scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on April 7, 2012 at the J oseph G. Green Studio  in the Centre for Film and Theatre at York University.  The Toronto seminar is the culmination of a new, one-semester, three-credit, seminar for fourth-year students offered by the York University Department of Theater titled "Shakespeare: The Authorship Question". The class began in January 2012.   The deadline for reserving a place at the seminar is April 2, 2012. Professor Rubin  shared the following accommodation recommendation for those who are traveling to the event:                                          ...

Professor Don Rubin  of the Department of Theater,  York University  will convene a one-day conference on the Shakespeare authorship question from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., April 7, 2012 at York University in downtown Toronto. The event is open to the public and the cost will be modest, according to Rubin. A preliminary list of events includes: Shakespeare By Another Name   author  author Mark Anderson as keynote speaker, Keir Cutler  presenting "Is Shakespeare Dead?", a panel discussion chaired by Rubin, and Lamberto Tassinari author of  John Florio: the Man Who Was Shakespeare . Rubin plans on including representatives from the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario and others.  The Toronto conference is the culmination of a new, one-semester, three-credit, seminar for fourth-year students offered by the York University Department of Theater titled "Shakespeare: The Authorship Question". The class begins in January 2012. When asked about ...