The Oxfordian
Welcome to The Oxfordian (ISSN 1521-3641), the peer reviewed journal published annually during the summer/fall by the Shakespeare Oxford Society. The Oxfordian is a professional publication that features papers providing indepth coverage of issues of importance to Shakespeare scholars. The Oxfordian welcomes submission of learned essays on three interrelated topics:
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Table of Contents
Volume 9 – October 2006
From Russia with Love: a Case of Love’s Labour’s Lost
Rima Greenhill
Oaths Forsworn in Love’s Labors Lost
Ruth Loyd Miller
De Vere’s Lucrece and Romano’s Sala di Troia
Michael Delahoyde Ph.D.
Dating Sonnet 107: Shakespeare and the “mortall Moone” On the Chronology and Performance Venue of A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Crisis of Scholarship: Misreading the Earl of Oxford
Apples to Oranges in Bard Stylometrics: Elliot and Valenza fail to eliminate Oxford Authorship Clues in Henry VI, Part 3 Book Reviews, Letters, News, Notices
Eric Miller
Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D.
Christoper Paul
John Shahan and Richard Whalen
Eric L. Altschuler MD & William James
Volume 8 – October 2005
The Stratford Bust: A monumental fraud
Richard F. Whalen
Shakespeare’s Sexuality and how it affects the Authorship Issue
John Hamill
Another Rare Dreame: Is this an “authentic” Oxford poem?
W. Ron Hess
Two Gentlement of Verona: Italian Literary Traditions and the Authorship debate
Kevin Gilvary
Hamlet’s Love Letter and the New Philosophy
Peter Usher
Searching for the Oxfordian “smoking gun” in Elizabethan Letters
Paul H. Altrocchi MD
Book Reviews, Letters, News Notes
Volume 7 – October 2004
A Monument Without a Tomb: The Mystery of Oxford’s Death
Christopher Paul
To Be or Not To Be: The Suicide Hypothesis
Robert Detobel
Orestes and Hamlet: from Myth to Masterpiece, Part 1
Earl Showerman
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, Another Early History Play by Edward de Vere
Ramon Jiménez
Did Queen Elizabeth Use the Theater for Social and Political Propaganda?
Gary B. Goldstein
Volume 6 – October 2003
Edmond Ironside, the English King: Edward de Vere’s Anglo-Saxon History Play
Ramon L. Jiménez
Shakespeare in Composition: Evidence for Oxford’s Authorship of The Book of Sir Thomas More
Fran Gidley
Shakespeare in Scotland: What did the author of Macbeth know and when did he know it?
Richard F. Whalen
No Spring till Now: The Countess of Pembroke and the John Webster Canon
Stephanie Hughes
Bardgate: Was Shakespeare a Secret Catholic?
Peter W. Dickson
The Proof is in the Pembroke: A Stylometric Comparison of the Works of Shakespeare with 12 Works by 8 Elizabethan Authors
George Warren
Volume 5 – October 2002
Shakespeare’s “Lesse Greek”
Andrew Werth
Authorial Rights, Part II: Early Shakespeare Critics and the Authorship Question
Robert Detobel
The Prince Tudor Dilemma: Hip Thesis, Hypothesis or Old Wives’ Tale?
Christopher Paul
A Reattribution of Munday’s “The Paine of Pleasure”
Sarah Smith, PhD
“The Paine of Pleasure” Attributed to Anthony Munday
Sarah Smith, PhD
On Looking into Chapman’s Oxford: A Personality Profile of the Seventeenth Earl
Richard F. Whalen
Shakespeare’s Support for the New Astronomy
Prof. Peter Usher
Alexander Pope: An Oxfordian at Heart?
Helen Gordon
The Poem “Grief of Minde”: Who Wrote it and Why it is Important
Frank M. Davis MD
Volume 4 – October 2001
Authorial Rights in Shakespeare’s Time
Robert Detobel
Advances in the Hamlet Allegory
Stephanie Hopkins Hughes
Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Law: A Journey through the History of the Argument
Mark Andre Alexander
We Must Speak by the Card or Equivocation will Undo Us: Oxford, Campion, and the Howard-Arundel Accusations of 1580-81
Richard Desper
Such Shaping Fantasies? Psychology and the Authorship Debate
Sally Hazelton Llewellyn
What is the Authorship Question?
Volume 3 – October 2000
“Shakespeare” and Burghley’s Library Bibliotheca Illustris: Sive Caelogus Variorum Librorum
Eddi Jolly
“Shakespeare’s” Tutor: Sir Thomas Smith (1513-1577)
Stephanie Hopkins Hughes
Shakespeare’s Medical Knowledge: How did He Acquire It?
Frank M. Davis MD
Who was Arthur Brooke: Author of “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliett”>?
Nina Green
Can the Oxford Candidacy be Saved? – A Response to W. Ron Hess: ‘Shakespeare’s Dates’”>
Ward E.Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza
Reprint: Lord Burghley as Master of the Court of Wards”>
Joel Hurstfield
Volume 2 – October 1999
Prolegomena for the Oxfordian
General Jack Shuttleworth
Dating Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
Eddi Jolly
Shakespeare’s Dates: Their Effects on Stylistic Analysis
W. Ron Hess
Secrets of the Dedications to Shakespeare’s Sonnets
John Rollet
Know Ye Not This Parable? The Oxford-Du Bartas Connection
James Fitzgerald
Unpacking “The Merry Wives”
Robert Brazil
Mathematical Models of Stratfordian Persistence
Dr. Charles Berney
Opinion: Reading by the Lamp of Biography
Andrew Werth
Volume 1 – October 1998
Who was Spenser’s E.K.? Was he the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford?
Nina Green
Shakespeare, Oxford and “A Pedlar”
James Fitzgerald
William Byrd’s “Battle” and the Earl of Oxford
Sally Mosher
De Vere’s Dedicatory Poem in Cardan’s Comforte (1573)
Roger Stritmatter
“He was a scholar and a ripe good one”: Oxford’s Education
Mirrored in the Shakespeare Canon
Daniel L. Wright
Hotwiring the Bard into Cyberspace
W. Ron Hess
Sonnet XXXIII and Much, much less
