Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

This year, while working on the second draft of his forthcoming book -- J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified: The 100th Anniversary of the Book that is Revolutionizing Shakespeare Studies -- James A. Warren continues to unearth long-forgotten artifacts from the period after publication of Looney's myth-shattering work. His most recent discovery is having learned that there was an Australian edition published by the venerable Australian bookseller, Angus & Robertson . "I just discovered that there was an Australian edition of Shakespeare Identified in addition to the London and New York editions, published in Sydney by Angus & Robertson on May 12, 1920," Warren said. Earlier this week Warren also reported his discovery of a letter from J. Thomas Looney in Gateshead, England to a newspaper in  Sydney, Australia. On June 10, 2020, Warren said: "Just found another letter from Looney responding to a review. This one is from  The Sydney Morning...

Tom Regnier, 2014 SOF Conference, Madison WI Sadly, I must take pen to paper, so to speak, and write about a great friend of all of us. As has become widely known in our community through our many social media and other outlets, Tom Regnier passed away from COVID-19 on April 14, 2020. Tom's death is a great loss for me personally, as well as for the Oxfordian world in general. In 2013, Tom Regnier was instrumental, along with John Hamill, in uniting the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society into the current Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, and served for four very productive years as its president from 2014-2018. His work as chair of the communications committee of the SOF, during that time, and continuing after he left the SOF board, has — along with many other hard working people — resulted in a great website and robust social media outreach. Tom has been, in many ways, the face of the SOF. Tom was active in doing research and publishe...

In this year of his 150th birthday J. Thomas Looney has been gifted with an ebook edition of his triumphant 1920 publication, Shakespeare Identified in Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford . James Warren, editor of the centennial edition of Shakespeare Identified  (Veritas Publications, 2019) released his electronic version from Kindle Direct Publishing on April 5, 2020. The cost is $9. "I'm just glad the Kindle edition is live," Warren said. "It's something that had been on my to-do list for a long time." Readers can access Shakespeare Identified Kindle edition on any device by downloading the Kindle app. Learn how at "Get started with the free Kindle app" . The formatting in the Kindle edition includes features such as Kindle's Wordwise, Enhanced typesetting, Page Flip, searching, highlighting and notetaking, as well as hotlinked footnotes. Warren said a difficulty with the table of contents was resolved under consul...

James Warren presents "J. Thomas Looney and the Most Revolutionary Book in the History of Shakespeare Studies" at the Shakespeare Identified Centennial Symposium at the National Press Club, Washington DC, March 4, 2020. *** Even those who are equivocal on the topic of the Shakespeare authorship must be unequivocal in their admiration of the Oxfordian thesis progenitor, J. Thomas Looney, and must admire the great organization that honors his work, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship . When a colleague asked if we thought the fellowship’s March 4, 2020 symposium at the National Press Club celebrating the centennial of Looney’s Shakespeare Identified   in Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford was worth the expenditure in time, effort, and funds, we replied enthusiastically in the affirmative. The concept of the March 4, 2020 Shakespeare Identified Centennial Symposium developed in a brainstorm session at the 2018 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship annual conferenc...

Oberon Chair Richard Joyrich, MD As you will be able to read on multiple sites, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship put on an event at the National Press Club on March 4, 2020 to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary (to the day) of the publication of  Shakespeare Identified  by J. Thomas Looney, the book that launched the Oxfordian movement in the Shakespeare authorship inquiry. I was indeed fortunate to be among the 70 or so participants in this centennial academic symposium and would like to present my impressions of the event here. By the way, the picture of me at the podium is just to document that I was there. I was actually not one of the speakers. But I can understand how it might be confusing to anyone reading this blog. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time someone got credit for something he didn’t do just because he may have been present among others associated with the event. Yes, I am thinking of William Shakspere of Stratford. Silly Merry Wive...

James A. Warren at work on  J. Thomas Looney’s Shakespeare Identified: The 100th Anniversary of the Book that is Revolutionizing Shakespeare Studies in his Cary, NC office, February 27, 2020 Researcher James A. Warren told us that he hopes to publish J. Thomas Looney’s Shakespeare Identified: The 100th Anniversary of the Book that is Revolutionizing Shakespeare Studies by the end of this 2020 centennial year. On February 6, 2020, Warren reported: "I have just finished the first draft of the SI book, after 93 consecutive 12-hour days. I need to do more research, though, and now expect to finish the book near the end of this year." Warren became interested in public response to Looney’s identification of Shakespeare as Edward DeVere, seventeenth earl of Oxford, while producing his own 2012 An Index to Oxfordian Publications , currently in its fourth edition (Forever Press, 2017). Warren’s list of Shakespeare Identified reviews and articles publ...

The Oberon Shakespeare Study Group joins the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, the DeVere Society, and Shakespeare lovers everywhere in celebrating the centennial of the March 4, 1920 publication of Shakespeare Identified as Edward DeVere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford by J. Thomas Looney. Oberons will host a luncheon party at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at Paesano Restaurant and Wine Bar, 3411 Washtenaw Avenue in Ann Arbor. The event is open to the public; tickets are $25 per plate; the reservations deadline is March 27, 2020. For information and reservations contact Linda Theil at mailto:linda.theil@gmail.com. We hope that Shakespeare devotees near and far will join us in this once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the brave and brilliant  J. Thomas Looney and the revolution in Shakespeare studies that his love of the work has brought us. UPDATE March 18, 2020: This event has been cancelled . During an Oberon Shakespeare Study Group telephone meeting on March 14, t...