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Videos:

The Shakespeare Mystery. The landmark Frontline documentary originally broadcast in 1989 and rebroadcast several times since then, most recently in April 1996. It is available directly from PBS Video $69.95.

Uncovering Shakespeare. This two-tape set covers all the events (panels and special features) during the 1992 live video conference on the authorship. Participants include William F. Buckley, Charles Vere, and Prof. Gary Taylor. It is available directly from GTE-Visnet

Who Is Shakespeare? This tape was made by the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable of their panel debate on the authorship in 1994. The panel was moderated by Charles Champlin, Arts Critic Emeritus of the Los Angeles Times, and included David A More (Marlovian), Steven Marble (Baconian), and Charles Vere (Oxfordian). It is available directly from the Roundtable in Los Angeles.

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Books and Publications:

NOTA BENE: Most of our book selections are now being offered separately at the Shakespeare Oxford Society Bookstore, in association with Amazon.com. We will list here at the Blue Boar only those titles that cannot be obtained through Amazon or for which we also have copies in stock for year-round mail order sales and our annual conference bookstore sales.

Dr. Frances Rippy, former Director of Graduate Studies in English at Ball State University, notes in the Foreword that Shakespeare's history plays reveal him serving not only as "a political propagandist for the Tudor monarchy," but also as "an apologist for the Protestant Reformation in England," defending not only the realm but the Crown and the Anglican Church as well. For author Dr. Daniel Wright this view of Shakespeare's purpose in writing the history plays was significant in his eventually accepting (and now actively promoting) Edward de Vere as the true author of the Shakespeare Canon (Dr. Wright now heads the Dept. of Humanities at Concordia University (Portland, OR), and in 1997 founded the Edward de Vere Studies Conference, held each spring on the Concordia campus).

The Mysterious William Shakespeare. by Charlton Ogburn, Jr. (2nd edition, 1992) 892 pages.Item SP23 ($40.00 plus $6.50 P&H) Order Form

"The scholarship is surpassing - brave, original and full of surprise, - and in the hands of so gifted a writer it fairly lights up the sky." David McCullough, historian.

"The definitive book on the man behind the name Shakespeare ... perhaps the single most revolutionary book in the whole of Shakespearean scholarship ... Once and for all Ogburn seems to me to prove the case for Oxford." Kevin Kelly, drama critic, Boston Globe

"Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, by J. Thomas Looney. Paperback facsimile reprint of the original 1920 first edition. 465 pages. Item SP4 ($20.00, plus $3.50 P&H) Order Form

"Shakespeare Identified is one of the most ingenious pieces of minute, circumstantial evidence extant in literary criticism." Frederick Tabor Cooper, from a review of the first edition, 1920

"Shakespeare Identified is destined to occupy, in modern Shakespearean controversy, the place Darwin's great work [Origin of the Species] occupies in evolutionary theory. It may be superseded, but all modern discussions of the authorship of the plays and poems stems from it, and owes the author an inestimable debt." William McFee, from the Preface to the 1948 edition.

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Gifts:

NOTA BENE: We have discontinued carrying a number of our gift items. Watch this space later this year for a new selection of items.

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Stationery:

Christmas cards. Choose from "Wassail at Castle Hedingham"
in gold on red, folded, inside blank; or "Santa at the Globe"
in black on white.
Item 115 Wassail design. 12 cards, 12 envelopes. $25.00
Item 116 Wassail design. 24 cards, 24 envelopes. $50.00
Item 117 Santa design. 10 cards, 10 envelopes. $10.00