Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Interlochen Arts Academy students Clara Honigberg and Peter Carroll attend the "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium" April 22, 2017 at Interlochen Center for the Arts. by Linda Theil David Montee's "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium" at Interlochen Center for the Arts on April 22, 2017, included a large audience contingent of Montee's students who attend his acting classes at Interlochen Arts Academy -- a fine-arts, boarding, high-school in Interlochen, Michigan. Among the students attending were two of the principal actors in Montee's production of Cardenio :  Clara Honigberg of Washington DC who played Luscinda, and Peter Carroll of San Francisco who played Fernando. Both young actors expressed enthusiasm for the topic of Shakespeare authorship, and they agreed to share their reactions and insights with Oberon readers. Their interviews are highlighted below. Academy post-grad Anna Armstrong also shared her response to the authorship symposi...

Image of Marshall Fredericks' sculpture "Two Bears" at Interlochen Center for the Arts, photo by AJ Theil by Linda Theil Oberons returned to the happy scene of former visits when we attended the  "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium"  at  Interlochen Center for the Arts   on April 22, 2017.  Interlochen theater-arts instructor, David Montee, PhD, welcomes attendees at the "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium" held in the Harvey Theater on the campus of Interlochen Center for the Arts on April 22, 2017. Interlochen theater-arts instructor, David Montee, PhD , organized the event to supplement his student production of Cardenio by William Shakespare and John Fletcher that was presented this weekend at Interlochen. Oberon chair Richard Joyrich, MD, delivers presentation at Interlochen "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium"April 22, 2017. At the seminar, Oberon chair Richard Joyrich, MD, delivered an overview of the authorship questi...

Oberon Shakespeare Study Group donates $500 check to SOF Shakespeare Identified Centennial Fund By Linda Theil Oberon Shakespeare Study Group Chair Richard Joyrich, MD, sent a $500 check to the Shakespeare Oxford Society Shakespeare Identified Centennial Fund yesterday to honor the memory of Oberon members who have passed away.  Oberons mourn the loss of our most recently deceased member, Reinaldo Perez, who died December 12, 2016. We continue to miss the friendship and insight of Oberon companions: R. Thomas Hunter (1942-2011), Ronald D. Halstead (1940-2014), and George Thomas Hunter (1923-2015). In a letter to the SOF board of directors, Joyrich said: All of these gentlemen were fine scholars and contributed greatly to our discussions at Oberon meetings as well as, in some cases, presenting papers at various authorship conferences. More information about each of them is available via the Oberon blog. . . .   Although they held various viewpoints, they w...

David Montee, PhD, is the director of Interlochen Center for the Arts April 21, 22, 23, 2017 production of Gregory Doran's version of  Cardenio , a lost play attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In this post, Montee shares his program notes on the history of Shakespeare's "lost play". Montee recently became a signatory to John Shahan's "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare." LT, ed David Montee, PhD, author of  Translating Shakespeare: a Guide for Young Actors  (Smith & Kraus 2014) Cardenio's timeline by guest blogger David Montee, PhD 1564—1616:  William Shakespeare’s life and career. 1623:   The first publication of Shakespeare’s collected plays, the First Folio. 1727:   Theatre entrepreneur, playwright, and Shakespeare editor Lewis Theobald announces that he has found and purchased “at considerable cost” three copies of a manuscript of a hitherto unknown Shakesp...

David Montee, PhD, visits Oberon meeting March 11, 2017 at Bloomfield Twp. Library, Bloomfield Hills, MI by Linda Theil David Montee, PhD, visited Oberons at our March 11, 2017 meeting to discuss the    "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium"  that he has organized at Interlochen Center for the Arts from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. April 22, 2017 in the  Harvey Theater at Interlochen . Oberon chair Richard Joyrich, MD, will be one of three featured speakers at the symposium. Montee and his colleagues at Interlochen organized the symposium to supplement Interlochen's student production of Gregory Doran's version of Cardenio , a lost play attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare that Montee directs for presentation April 21, 22, 23, 2017. Montee said: I think [the question of Cardenio's authorship] ties-in with the larger questions about the whole [Shakespeare] authorship question. It’s becoming kind of murky whether there is a single author in any of t...

The erudite and accessible Richard Waugaman, M.D. has published a second and expanded edition of his first book, Newly Discovered Works by "William Shake-Speare": a.k.a. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford , now available as a Kindle edition from Amazon. Waugaman said: Two new chapters add 30% more material, and I've made other revisions throughout. Both new chapters attribute translations from Latin into English to de Vere -- the  Metamorphoses   traditionally attributed to his uncle; and a 1570 translation of Johann Sturm's short work on rhetoric.   In both of these new chapters, I present detailed philological evidence for de Vere's authorship, including unusual spellings; word coinages including "to coin" a word and words starting "un-"; and especially the highly Shakespearean use of hendiadys -- "the figure of twins," as de Vere called it in the  Arte of English Poesie .  UPDATE Jan. 28, 2017:   You can get the secon...

by Linda Theil Oberon chair Richard Joyrich, MD, will speak at the   "Shakespeare Authorship Symposium" hosted by Interlochen Center for the Arts at 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 22, 2017 in the Harvey Theater at Interlochen . Oberons plan to attend the day-long event, as well as the Interlochen production of Cardenio , attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, and directed by Interlochen instructor Dr. David Montee . Montee said: In honor of the Interlochen Theatre Division’s production of Cardenio, a “lost” play by William Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s birthday/death day on April 23, we invite you to join us for a special day-long symposium on Saturday, April 22 to examine the authorship issue surrounding Shakespeare’s works. A distinguished panel of invited Shakespeare scholars, including Dr. Sabrina Feldman, author of  The Apocryphal Shakespeare  and  The Shakespearean Glass Slipper , and Dr. Richard Joyrich, founding member of the Obero...