Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Earl Showerman, MD and Michael Delahoyde, PhD  at Folio: Seattle Athenaeum, March 13, 2018 by guest correspondent Tom Townsend March 14, 2018 Two Shakespearean scholars, Earl Showerman, MD and Michael Delahoyde, PhD discussed critical topics about Shakespeare’s impressive work The Merchant of Venice . Dr. Showerman discussed a real person, Gaspar Ribiero, as the likely model for Shylock; Dr. Delahoyde showcased the need to view different perspectives in Merchant. These presentations took place Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum where approximately 50 people attended. These conversations are timely because The Seattle Shakespeare Company is producing Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice March 20-April 15, 2018. Showerman’s thesis: Ribiero is Shylock Earl Showerman clearly presented many excellent reasons why Gaspar Ribiero, a Sixteenth-century, Portuguese Jew living in Venice — and forced to convert to Christianity — could likely be the...

Mara Radzvickas, Robin Browne, Rosey Hunter, Richard Joyrich, Pam Verilone, and Sharon Hunter at Oberon Shakespeare Study Group meeting March 10, 2017 at Bloomfield Twp. District Library, MI. by Linda Theil March 10, 2018 Oberons had a nice study session at our March 10, 2018 meeting with lots of information sharing. Books My Shakespeare: the Authorship Controversy -- experts examine the arguments for  Bacon, Neville, Oxford, Marlow, Mary Sidney, Shakspere, and Shakespeare edited by Professor William Leahy, Deputy Vice-chancellor at Brunel University, London; published in 2018 by EER Brighton, UK. Available at Amazon . The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare by Kevin Gilvary (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare) published by Routledge, New York and London, 2018.  Available from Routledge . The Seven Steps to Mercy: with Shakespeare's Key to the Oak Island Templum . Available at Amazon . The Royal Secret by John Bentley (John Bentley, 2014) in the style of Dan Bro...

Ed: Kevin Gilvary, PhD is the author of The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare (Routledge, 2017) and trustee of the  Shakespeare Authorship Trust . by guest correspondent Kevin Gilvary, PhD The world's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the Shakespeare Authorship Question will go live on the Coursera platform on  Monday February 19, 2018 . The four-week online course, which is completely free, is written and presented by Dr Ros Barber, lecturer in the English and Comparative Literature department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust.  It includes interviews with leading authorship doubters including this writer [Professor William Leahy of Brunel University] and Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance. Coursera currently has 30-million registered users and is one of the world's leading providers of free online education. Registration is now open at  https://www.coursera.org/le arn/shake...

Oberons extend deepest condolence to our dear friend Richard Joyrich on the death of his mother, Ida Joyrich, who passed away yesterday. Ida Joyrich, 1931-2018 A remembrance of Mrs. Joyrich can be seen at:  http://www.hebrewmemorial.org/obituaries/Ida-Joyrich/#!/Obituary . A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb 4, at Hebrew Memorial Chapel, 26640 Greenfield Rd, Oak Park MI 48237. Those who wish to honor the memory of  Ida Joyrich,  may do so by making a contribution to: GLEANERS P.O. Box 33321, Drawer 43  Detroit, MI 48232-5321   866-GLEANER (453-2637) www.gcfb.org or YAD EZRA 2850 W. 11 Mile, Berkley, MI 48072 248.548.3663    www.yadezra.org or A.C.L.U. action.aclu.org or AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE 45 West 36th Street New York, NY 10018 212.792.2900 800.889.7146 212.792.2930 ajws@ajws.org

by Linda Theil Celebrate the Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day by sharing your favorite authorship book or video under the #ShakespeareAuthorshipMysteryDay on all your social media sites!  Here is an Oberon favorite: The Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction, and Modern Biographies (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) by David Ellis.  Read all about The Truth . . . on the July 17, 2012 Oberon post, "UK professor says Shakespeare biographies are bunk". Resources Amazon,  https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-William-Shakespeare-Biographies/dp/0748646671/ Oberon,  http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/2012/07/uk-professor-says-shakespeare.html

by Linda Theil Ernest Hemingway may be added to the list of Shakespeare authorship skeptics thanks to Nina Green finding a Hemingway letter to Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins. Hemingway opens the letter datelined August 27, 1942 “ La Finca Vigia ” with praise for  Alden Brooks’   Will Shakespeare and the Dyer’s Hand  (Scribners, 1943) wherein Brooks proposes Sir Edward Dyer as the true author of Shakespeare’s plays.   Hemingway said: Dear Max: Thank you very much for sending me the galleys from Alden Brooks's Shakespeare book. I think it is very possible, as he told me last fall in Tucson, that he has really nailed the man at last. He is so enthusiastic and follows so like a bloodhound and a district attorney with a record for convictions, on the trail of poor Will that he will alienate many people, but as you say he piles up a terrific amount of evidence. Anyway, it is a marvelous job and it would be a crime for it not to be published. He is a good ...

Robin Browne at Sept. 9, 2017 Oberon Shakespeare  Study Group meeting at Bloomfield Twp. Library, MI. by Linda Theil An article titled "The Bible, the Bishops and the Bard" by Oberon Shakespeare Study Group member Robin Browne was published in The Tyndale Society Journal #48 (Spring 2017).  Journal editor Neil Langdon Inglis commented in a footnote: From time to time, the TSJ will publish esoterica, and in the current issue we include a striking example by Robin Browne, who discusses the Tyndale/Shakespeare connection. There are mysteries to ponder here, and pending further discoveries by sleuths and historians inside our Society and beyond, certain historical truths must remain unknowable. We congratulate our friend, Robin Browne, on his accomplishment and his dedication to the study of Shakespeare. Resources Information on TSJ #48 is available at  http://www.tyndale.org/tsj48/index.htm . "The Bible, the Bishops and the Bard" is online at ...