Books & Journals

A list of recommended Oxfordian books by date of publication, and a list of selected journals

An Index to Oxfordian Publications – 5th Edition – 2023

2023, Book, James A. Warren

by James Warren, The Fifth Edition of AN INDEX TO OXFORDIAN PUBLICATIONS is a complete index to more than 12,000 articles, commentaries, reviews, letters, books, pamphlets and audio-visual productions examining...

So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare

Emily Carding

2023, Book, Emily Carding

by Emily Carding (Llewellyn Publications, 8 August 2023) Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are steeped in magic and esoteric lore. This book deeply explores fascinating examples of Hermeticism, astrology, and alchemy...

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Elizabeth Winkler

2023, Book, Elizabeth Winkler

by Elizabeth Winkler (Simon & Schuster, 8 June 2023) A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of...

The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne: What if everything you ever learned about William Shakespeare was a lie?

Ron Destro

2023, Book, Ron Destro

by Ron Destro (Contempo Publishing, 31 August 2023) In 1624 London, a brave printer is executed, a portly poet is kidnapped, a Stratford-upon-Avon grave is emptied, King James is put...

The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook: A Workbook for Educators and Students (2nd edition)

Roger Stritmatter

2022, Book, Roger Stritmatter

by Roger Stritmatter (PhD) (Independently published, 15 January 2022) The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook, 2nd edition, provides resources and strategies for leading classroom discussion on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, 9th grade...

SHAKESPEARE REVOLUTIONIZED: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified

James A. Warren

2021, Book, James A. Warren

by James A. Warren (Veritas Publications, 2021) That “William Shakespeare” was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest deception in literary history....

Shakespeare’s Revolution

Richard Malim

2022, Book, Richard Malim

by Richard Malim (Austin Macauley Publishers, 30 June 2022) 2020 saw the centenary of Thomas Looney’s book Shakespeare Identified in which he revealed that the author of ‘Shakespeare’ is Edward...

Educating Shakespeare: What he knew and how and where he learned it

Stephanie Hopkins Hughes

2022, Book, Stephanie Hopkins Hughes

by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes (Veritas Publications, April 2022) In Educating Shakespeare Stephanie Hopkins Hughes, former editor of The Oxfordian, digs deep into the sources used by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, in...

English Travellers to Venice 1450-1600 (Hakluyt Society, Third Series)

Michael G. Brennan

2022, Book, Michael G. Brennan

by Michael G. Brennan (ed.) (Routledge, February 2022) English Travellers to Venice 1450 –1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of...

Dating Shakespeare’s Plays

Kevin Gilvary

2021, Book, Kevin Gilvary

Second Edition, edited by Kevin Gilvary (Portsea Press, 2021). First published in 2010. This critical review challenges the orthodox scholarly consensus about the order in which Shakespeare composed his plays...

Shakespeare and Emilia: The Untold Story

Peter Bassano

2020, Book, Peter Bassano

by Peter Bassano (independently published, Dec 2020) Emilia Bassano was identified as the Dark Musical Lady of the Shakespeare Sonnets by A.L.Rowse in 1973. This book presents previously unpublished evidence...

Who Wrote That?: Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov

Donald Ostrowski

2020, Book, Donald Ostrowski

by Donald Ostrowski (Northern Illinois University Press, 2020) Who Wrote That? examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials,...

In the Shadow of Shakespeare

Richard Vaughan Davies

2020, Book, Richard Vaughan Davies

by Richard Vaughan Davies (Mitford Oak Press, November 2020) Almost all we know for certain about Will Shaxpur from Stratford is that he was “a handsome, well-shaped man” who went...

How Science Proved Edward de Vere was William Shakespeare (2nd edition)

David L. Roper

2020, Book, David L. Roper

by David L. Roper (First Proofs, 2020) This book describes in detail the ground-breaking discovery of William Shakespeare’s true identity. Recent scientific investigation, based on empirical evidence, proves beyond all...

Renaissance Man

Ian Johnson

2020, Book, Ian Johnson

by Ian Johnson (New Generation Publishing, 2020) Who was Thomas Watson? Famous in his day, he was the epitome of Renaissance man: classical scholar, linguist, poet, playwright, musician, scientist, thinker,...

Take Physic, Pomp!

Charles and Sarah Beauclerk

2020, Book, Charles and Sarah Beauclerk

by Charles and Sarah Beauclerk (Independent, 2020) Shakespeare was not only a poet-playwright; he was a sage who saw deeply into human nature and mankind’s place in the natural order....

Let’s Re-Vere the Works of Shakespeare

Richard M. Waugaman

2020, Book, Richard M. Waugaman

by Richard M. Waugaman (Independent, 2020) Since 2002, Richard M. Waugaman, a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, has intensively pursued Shakespeare research. Sigmund Freud was the first well-known intellectual to endorse...

The Case for Edward de Vere as the real William Shakespeare: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom

John Milnes Baker

2020, Book, John Milnes Baker

by John Milnes Baker (iUniverse, 2020) Why do so many people question the authorship of the works of William Shakespeare? The answer may be found in this booklet and the...

The Shakespeare Masterclasses

Ron Destro

2020, Book, Ron Destro

Edited by Ron Destro, founding director of the Shakespeare Oxford Company (NY and Oxford: Routledge, 2020) The Shakespeare Masterclasses is a collection of rare interviews from many of the world’s most...

“Shakespeare” Revealed: The collected articles and published

J. Thomas Looney

2019, Book, J. Thomas Looney

letters of J. Thomas Looney Although best known for “Shakespeare” Identified, the book in which he introduced, in 1920, the idea that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was...

Shakespeare Identified

J. Thomas Looney

2019, Book, J. Thomas Looney

by J. Thomas Looney – 2019 In 1920 J. Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified introduced the idea that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was the man behind the pseudonym...

Early Shakespeare

A. Bronson Feldman

2019, A. Bronson Feldman, Book, Warren Hope

by A. Bronson Feldman and Warren Hope (Laugwitz Verlag, 2019) In Early Shakespeare, A. Bronson Feldman, a scholar with wide-ranging interests, uses biographical, historical, and psychoanalytic approaches to analyze Shakespeare’s...

Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubt

Bryan H. Wildenthal

2019, Book, Bryan H. Wildenthal

by Bryan H. Wildenthal (Zindabad Press, 2019) This book examines dozens of early authorship doubts before the 1616 death of William Shakespeare of Stratford, including five indications that the real...

Nothing Truer Than Truth: Being the life and times of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, sometime known as William Shakespeare

Darrol Blake

2019, Book, Darrol Blake

Play by Darrol Blake (Riverside Press, 2019) Nothing Truer Than Truth: Being the life and times of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, sometime known as William Shake-speare Paperback...

Shakespeare’s Apprenticeship

Ramon Jiménez

2018, Book, Ramon Jiménez

by Ramon Jiménez (McFarland, 2018) The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now,...

Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Bonner Miller Cutting

2018, Bonner Miller Cutting, Book

by Bonner Miller Cutting (Jennings, Louisiana: Minos Publishing, 2018) For more than two hundred years, the authorship of the works known as the Shakespeare canon has been called into question....

The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship

Michael Wainwright

2018, Book, Michael Wainwright

by Michael Wainwright (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s rationality from a Ramist perspective, linking that examination to...

Hamlet (Oxfordian Shakespeare Series)

Richard Whalen

2018, Book, Richard Whalen

by Richard Whalen (Llumina Press 2018) Hamlet in The Oxfordian Shakespeare SeriesThis Oxfordian Shakespeare Series presents, for the first time, fully annotated editions informed by the view that the Shakespeare...

Hamlet’s Elsinore Revisited

Gerold Wagner

2018, Book, Gerold Wagner, Sten F. Vedi

by Sten F. Vedi and Gerold Wagner (Neues Shake-speare Journal, Special issue Book 7, 2018) How could so much knowledge about Denmark and Danish circumstances find its way into the...

How Science Proved Edward de Vere Was William Shakespeare

David L. Roper

2018, Book, David L. Roper

by David L. Roper (UK: First-Proofs.com, 2018) This book began as an article first published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration – Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 643-694, 2017; and it follows...

Shakespeare’s Secrets

Aaron Tatum

2018, Aaron Tatum, Book

Novel by Aaron Tatum (DVS member, independently published, 2018) Semi-retired folk-rock musician Ian Scarborough is now a music critic with a London newspaper who has become interested in the Shakespeare...

The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare

Kevin Gilvary

2018, Book, Kevin Gilvary

by Kevin Gilvary (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare, 2018) Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a...

Botanical Shakespeare

Gerit Quealy

2017, Book, Gerit Quealy

by Gerit Quealy (Harper Design,2017) A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world’s greatest playwright,...

Othello (Oxfordian Shakespeare Series)

Richard F. Whalen

2017, Book, Richard F. Whalen

by Richard F. Whalen (Editor), Ren Draya (Editor) Llumina Press 2017) This Oxfordian Shakespeare Series presents for the first time fully annotated editions informed by the view that the Shakespeare...

Shakespeare’s Wilderness

David Rains Wallace

2017, Book, David Rains Wallace

by David Rains Wallace (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017) Shakespeare is often praised for his love and understanding of nature. Less has been written about how he acquired those qualities....

The Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Explained

Geoffrey Eyre

2017, Book, Geoffrey Eyre

by Geoffrey Eyre (2017) The Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Explained is an independent study of one of the world’s longest running mysteries. It explains how the mystery came about in the...

Macbeth 2nd Edition (Oxfordian Shakespeare Series)

Richard Whalen

2016, Book, Richard Whalen

by Richard Whalen (Llumina Press 2016) This Oxfordian Shakespeare Series presents for the first time fully annotated editions informed by the view that the plays were written by Edward de...

Shakespeare Suppressed

Katherine Chiljan

2016, Book, Katherine Chiljan

by Katherine Chiljan (Faire Editions, 2016) Non-fiction research book about Shakespeare, the man and his works, based on contemporary evidence. This evidence conflicts with the orthodox view. For example, some...

Shakespeare Unravelled – Court plays: the 1623 deception

Michael and Pauline Black

2016, Book, Michael and Pauline Black

by Michael and Pauline Black (Pauline & Michael Black, 2016) Elizabethan and Jacobean Court plays and the First Folio 1623 authorship deception. This new book sheds light on doubts about...

Reflections on the True Shakespeare

Gary Goldstein

2016, Book, Gary Goldstein

by Gary Goldstein (Verlag Uwe Laugwitz, 2016) Reflections on the True Shakespeare is a clear and fascinating presentation of Oxfordian scholarship regarding the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Among other topics, Gary...

100 Reasons Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford

Hank Whittemore

2016, Book, Hank Whittemore

by Hank Whittemore (Forever Press, 2016) “Whittemore strongly champions the Oxfordian argument in this tour de force defense while remaining a highly entertaining writer. A breezy but very intelligent tone...

Contested Year: Errors, Omissions and Unsupported Statements in James Shapiro’s “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606”

Mark Anderson

2016, Alex McNeil, Alexander Waugh, Book, Mark Anderson

by Mark Anderson (Editor), Alexander Waugh (Editor, Foreword), Alex McNeil (Editor) Contested Year is an anthology of critical reviews of James Shapiro’s book The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. It is...

The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and The idea of News

Stephen Wittek

2015, Book, Stephen Wittek

by Stephen Wittek (University of Michigan Press, 2015) The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare’s theater in...

The Shakespeare Mask

Newton Frohlich

2015, Book, Newton Frohlich

Novel by Newton Frohlich (Blue Bird Press, 2015) Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in Historical Fiction In the sixteenth century, a precocious young nobleman draws the attention of...

The Case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare

Geoffrey Eyre

2015, Book, Geoffrey Eyre

by Geoffrey Eyre (2015) Edward de Vere the 17th Earl of Oxford was a generous patron of writers, actors and musicians in the London of Queen Elizabeth I. But was...

Shakespeare in Court

Alexander Waugh

2015, Alexander Waugh, Book

by Alexander Waugh (2015) “FAMOUS CHARITY TURNS DOWN THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLECT $67,000 BY EXPLAINING ITS OWN CAUSE!” This explosive new salvo in the hard-fought war over the identity of...

The Marginalia of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible

Roger Stritmatter

2015, Book, Roger Stritmatter

by Dr. Roger A. Stritmatter (CreateSpace, 2015) The historic 2001 University of Massachusetts PhD dissertation on the Edward de Vere Geneva Bible. This 4th imprint, readied for sale in September,...

The First Two Quartos of Hamlet

Margrethe Jolly

2014, Book, Margrethe Jolly

by Margrethe Jolly (McFarland & Co., 2014) It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second...

Shakespeare’s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier: The Woman Behind Shakespeare’s Plays?

John Hudson

2014, Book, John Hudson

by John Hudson (Amberley Publishing, 2014) Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age...

It’s time to Re-Vere the works of “Shake-speare”

Richard M. Waugaman

2014, Book, Richard M. Waugaman

by Richard M. Waugaman (Oxfreudian Press, 2014) Since 2002, Richard M. Waugaman, a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, has intensively pursued Shakespeare research. Sigmund Freud was the first well-known intellectual to...

Newly discovered works by “William Shake-speare” a.k.a. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

Richard M. Waugaman

2014, Book, Richard M. Waugaman

by Richard M. Waugaman (Oxfreudian Press, 2014) As more people accept the likelihood that the Earl of Oxford published his plays and poems under the name of “William Shake-Speare,” we...

27 Essays on Edward de Vere and William Shakespeare

Charles Graves

2014, Book, Charles Graves

by Charles Lee Graves (Iver Publications, 2014) Charles Graves learned about the hypothesis that the 17th Earl of Oxford was the real ‘Shakespeare’ when he read Thomas Looney’s exposition of...

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial

Alexander Waugh

2013, Alexander Waugh, Book

by John M. Shahan, Alexander Waugh (Eds.) for the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (2013) The Book the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Doesn’t Want You to Read: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Never has the...

Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography (2nd Edition)

Diana Price

2012, Book, Diana Price

by Diana Price (Greenwood Press, 2012) Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography : New Evidence of an Authorship Problem re-opens the Authorship Question with an arsenal of new information and powerful arguments. It...

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

Robin Fox

2012, Book, Robin Fox

by Robin Fox (ed. Gary Goldstein) (Laugwitz Verlag, 2012) ‘An enthralling account of the murky shadow-world of Elizabethan espionage’ Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves ‘Alford has brought a dash of le...

Shakespeare’s Education, Schools, Lawsuits, Theater and the Tudor Miracle

Gary Goldstein

2012, Book, Gary Goldstein

by Robin Fox (ed. Gary Goldstein) (Laugwitz Verlag, 2012)

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Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

Charles Beauclerk

2011, Book, Charles Beauclerk

by Charles Beauclerk (Grove Press, 2011) It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most-enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language....

The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare

Tony Pointon

2011, Book, Tony Pointon

by Tony Pointon (2011) It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most-enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was...

The Shakespeare File

Simon Fry

2011, Book, Simon Fry

Kindle edition novel by Simon Fry (DVS member, Imprimata, 2011) The year is 2016 and it’s Carnival-time in Venice. Final-year students Bianca and Jessica are in a palazzo on the...

The Earl of Oxford and the Making of “shakespeare”: The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context

Richard Malim

2011, Book, Richard Malim

by Richard Malim (2011) The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of...

The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised

Peter Moore

2009, Book, Peter Moore

by Peter Moore (Verlag Uwe Laugwitz, 2009) Warren Hope, Brief Chronicles, Vol. 2, 2010: “Peter Moore’s work deserves to find its way onto library shelves as well as into the...

Anthony Munday and civic culture: Theatre, History and Power in Early Modern London 1580-1633

Tracey Hill

2009, Book, Tracey Hill

by Tracey Hill (Manchester University Press, 2009) This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and...

The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy

Heward Wilkinson

2009, Book, Heward Wilkinson

by Heward Wilkinson (Karnak Books, 2009 | Routledge, 2018) In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this...

‘Shakespeare’ by Another Name

Mark Anderson

2005, Book, Mark Anderson

by Mark Anderson (Gotham, 2005) The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the...

A Question of Will

Lynne Kositsky

2001, 2019, Book, Lynne Kositsky

by Lynne Kositsky (Roussan Publishers, 2001; republished by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2019) When Perin Willoughby (“Willow”), a feisty, fast-talking teenaged girl, travels back in time to the theatre of...

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

John Michell

1999, Book, John Michell

by John Michell (London, Thames and Hudson, 1999) Was the famous poet and writer really a fraud and plagarist? Was his name really a pseudonym for a well-known contemporary figure?...

Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time

Mark Anderson

1997, Book, Joseph Sobran, Mark Anderson

by Joseph Sobran (New York: The Free Press, 1997) This text claims that the link between William Shakespeare and the works published under his name is weak, and it argues...

The Lost Chronicle of Edward de Vere

Andrew Field

1990, Andrew Field, Book

Novel by Andrew Field (Viking, 1990 | Penguin Books, 1991) A recreation of Elizabethan England based around the supposition that Shakespeare was in fact Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of...

The Mysterious William Shakespeare

Charlton Ogburn

1984, Book, Charlton Ogburn

by Charlton Ogburn (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1984). A book frequently said by members to have been their introduction to Edward de Vere as Shakespeare. William shakespeare was...

Neues Shake-speare Journal

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Oxfordian journal published in Germany by Laugwitz Verlag.

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The Oxfordian

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Annual journal published by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Current editor: Gary Goldstein. Welcome to The Oxfordian, the annual journal published during the fall by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. The Oxfordian is a professional...

The Elizabethan Review

Journal

Journal, Journals, Renaissance

A literary, historical journal (ISSN 1066-7059); was published from 1993 to 1999 in 13 semi-annual issues totalling 930 pages (also available on CD in searchable PDF format). A peer-reviewed journal...

Brief Chronicles

Journal

Journal, Journals

Brief Chronicles is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to examining the Shakespeare authorship question and, more generally, topics in early modern authorship studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies...

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