Uncovering Shakespeare: An Update

Three hour videoconference available from GTE VisNet

- Two 90-minute VHS cassettes including the whole video conference and some supplementary videotape material not broadcast due to time constraints.
- A booklet of further readings on both sides of the issue
- A bibliography of works used in the preparation of the program
- A poster announcing the original videoconference

Rundown of the program

I. Introductory videotape

(12 mins.)
• refers to the enduring works of Shakespeare, as well as the first suspicions that someone else may have written them and why, with comments by:
  1. David Bevington, Prof. English, Univ. Chicago
  2. Charles Champlin, critic and Editor Emeritus, L.A. Times
  3. John Savage, author and lecturer on the Shakespeare Controversy
  4. Deborah Bacon, author and lecturer on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, descendant of Delia Bacon, who first challenged
     Stratfordian orthodoxy in the 1850's
  5. Ambassador Paul Nitze

II. Live panel in studio

1. Comments and introduction of panel by William F. Buckley, Jr.
2. Charles Vere, Earl of Burford. (10 mins) very basic outline of the Oxfordian theory including the problem of hyphenation of the name Shake-Spear
3. Riposte by Gary Taylor, Prof. Brandeis U. Discusses reasons for hyphenation as a typographical problem, and the problem with Authorship Question in general. (6 mins)
4. Question from Purdue (3 mins)

III.Videotape: Oxfordian view of Stratford/Stratfordians view of Oxford

(9 mins) various opposing viewpoints by:
1. David Bevington, John Savage, Deborah Bacon
2. Father Francis Edwards, SJ. noted British author and historian in Elizabethan politics
3. Don Richardson, Chair, Music Dept. Univ. Santa Monica.

IV. Live discussion, featuring:

1. Rebecca Flynn, Head of Education at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-on-Avon (10 mins)
2. Tom Bethell, co-author of The Atlantic article "Searching for Shakespeare"
3. Call-in questions from the field, including Duke, Leslie, and Harvard. (20 mins)

V. Videotape: The Problem of the Sonnets

(14 mins), featuring readings of Sonnets 76, 110, 111 by:
1. Earle Hyman, noted Shakespearean actor
2. Charles Boyle, Boston-based director and actor in Shakespeare.
3. David Bevington, John Savage, Deborah Bacon

VI. Live discussion, featuring:

1. Warren Hope, poet, author of The Shakespeare Controversy, and lecturer. (10 mins)
2. Discussion (8 mins)
3. Felicia Londré, English Professor at University of Missouri (10 mins)
4. Discussion (8 mins)
5. Call-in questions from the field (10 mins)

VII. Videotape: Oxford's Bible Marginalia

(9 mins)
• a major discovery from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Features:
  1. Roger Stritmatter, PhD candidate from Boston College at Amherst
  2. Shots of the bible with the various underlinings and marginalia which relate to Shakespeare's plays.

VIII. Live Discussion, featuring the entire panel

(15 mins)
1. With concluding remarks by Tom Bethell and Gary Taylor
2. Call-in Question from Indiana about the reasons for concealing Oxford's identity
3. Concluding remarks by Mr Buckley

IX. Videotape: Apotheosis: Final remarks from the field

(11 mins)
1. features all the above taped members of the program.

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