DVS Articles & Reviews
articles, papers and reviews by members of the de vere society showing the range of our research
Listed in alphabetical order by author surname. Date of DVS Newsletter issue (if applicable) is in brackets.
Charles Bird
New evidence for de Vere from Tilbury Church (April 2016)
Julia Cleave
Seeing Double: Early Doubters of Shakespeare’s Identity (May 2014)
Jan Cole
Author of Hamlet’s books? Petrach’s De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, by Thomas Twyne (April 2019)
Jan Cole
Was Queen Elizabeth’s 1571 gift to Oxford given to the Earl of Southampton? (April 2019)
Jan Cole
People and Plays at Oxford University, September 1566 (October 2016)
Jan Cole
Coming of Age: Five Milestones in the Life of Edward de Vere, 1571-72 (July 2016)
Jan Cole
Oxford and Jonson in Stoke Newington (April 2016)
Jan Cole
Oxford’s 1580 purchase of land and property ‘east of Aldgate’ (January 2016)
Jan Cole
Oxford’s Land Sales, Castle Hedingham and the Sheepcote in As You Like It (October 2015)
Jan Cole
‘The Scene Vienna’: some Hapsburg elements in Measure for Measure
Jan Cole
Who was ‘the late English Ovid’? (May 2014)
Jan Cole
Life at Cecil House: the architectural plan of c.1565 and what it tells us (DVS talk, May 2013)
Jeremy Crick and Dorna Bewley
The ‘Ashbourne’ Portrait of ‘Shakespeare’ (Summer 2007)
New research on the painting’s provenance strengthens the case that it is the lost portrait of
Edward de Vere by Cornelius Ketel.
Edward de Vere by Cornelius Ketel.
Jeremy Crick
Elizabeth and ffrancis Trentham of Rocester Abbey – Part 1 (November 2006)
First part of a trilogy of essays on Elizabeth Trentham.
Jeremy Crick
Elizabeth and ffrancis Trentham of Rocester Abbey – Part 2 (February 2007)
Part Two of the family history of Edward de vere, Earl of Oxford’s second wife and the strategic
importance of the Trentham archive in the search for Oxford’s literary fragments.
importance of the Trentham archive in the search for Oxford’s literary fragments.
Jeremy Crick
Elizabeth and ffrancis Trentham of Rocester Abbey – Part 3 (2007)
Part Three of the family history of Edward de vere, Earl of Oxford’s second wife and the strategic
importance of the Trentham archive in the search for Oxford’s literary fragments.
importance of the Trentham archive in the search for Oxford’s literary fragments.
Jeremy Crick
Trentham Family Tree
Published to accompany the articles ‘Elizabeth and ffrancis Trentham of Rocester Abbey’
(November 2006)
(November 2006)
Robert Detobel
Captain Tucca, Captain Hannam, and Falstaff (March 2008; DVS June 2008 newsletter)
Robert Detobel
An Accident of Note: Part 2. (Continued from June 2008 newsletter)
Why did George Chapman Bear Witness to Oxford in The Revenge of Bussy d’Ambois?
Answering this question, Robert Detobel argues for a Stoic dimension to Hamlet.
Robert Detobel
Shakespeare and the Concealed Poet (ed. Jan Scheffer)
Issue 8 of Neues Shake-speare Journal
George Dillon
Swordplay (October 2008)
Michael Dudley
Becoming an Oxfordian: The Phenomenology of Shifting Research Paradigms in Shakespearean
Biography (July 2018)
Biography (July 2018)
James Alan Egan
Shakespeare and John Dee wrote The Tempest (July 2017)
Geoffrey Eyre
Our Enduring Authorship Mystery Still Awaiting Academic Breakthrough (July 2019)
Geoffrey Eyre
The Parallel Lives of Shakespeare and Beethoven: A Shakespeare Authorship Study (July 2017)
Michael le Gassick
Report of research carried out by Michael le Gassick before his death that year ‘Newly set foorth, ouerseene and corrected, By VV.S.’ (January 2016)
Kevin Gilvary
‘Shakespeare’ Identified in Edward de Vere the Seventeeth Earl of Oxford (by J. Thomas Looney, 1920)
This article forms the centrepiece of an issue of the DVS newsletter dedicated to the centenary of the book published by J. Thomas Looney in 1920. (July 2020)
Kevin Gilvary
A Storm Called AEmelia
Was AEmilia Bassano the Dark Lady or even the Hidden Author? (January 2020)
Kevin Gilvary
Towards Oxfordian Chronology of Shakespeare’s Plays (January 2019)
Kevin Gilvary
Did Shakespeare know Jonson? (January 2016)
Kevin Gilvary
A Brief Case for Oxford and FAQs (October 2015)
A Brief Case for Oxford: J. T. Looney, ‘Shakespeare’ Identified (1920); Short Life of Edward de Vere
(1550-1604): Oxford as the author of Hamlet; Oxford as the author of Twelfth Night; Oxford as the
author of King Lear; FAQs.
(1550-1604): Oxford as the author of Hamlet; Oxford as the author of Twelfth Night; Oxford as the
author of King Lear; FAQs.
Kevin Gilvary
Language Features and Chronology
Can Style help establish the Chronology of Shakespeare’s works?
This paper was given at the AGM held at Birkbeck College, London, May 2003.
This paper was given at the AGM held at Birkbeck College, London, May 2003.
Kevin Gilvary
Shakespeare and Italian Comedy
Reprinted from Great Oxford I (Ed. Richard Malim), Chapter 14, pp.107-125.
Kevin Gilvary
‘The Empire’ Strikes Back
Reprinted from Great Oxford I (Ed. Richard Malim), Chapter 39, pp.337-357.
Kevin Gilvary
Edward de Vere: This is Your Life
The text of an address given at the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, which hosted the
Summer (June) 2004 DVS meeting, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of the Earl of Oxford.
Summer (June) 2004 DVS meeting, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of the Earl of Oxford.
Kevin Gilvary
Writ in Choice Italian: Shakespeare and Italian Literature
Talk at the SAT conference, 24 November 2013.
Kevin Gilvary
What Malone really said about Shakespeare (November 2012)
Kevin Gilvary
The Tempest as an Italian Pastoral Comedy
A talk given at the Shakespeare in Italy Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2007.
A talk given at the Shakespeare in Italy Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2007.
Kevin Gilvary
‘The Tempest’ & Three Scenari
Three pastoral scenari from the commedia dell’arte which seem to have influenced
Shakespeare’s The Tempest (November 2013).
Shakespeare’s The Tempest (November 2013).
GQ
Who Really Won the Tennis Court Quarrel? (October 2014)
Gary Goldstein
Shakespeare’s Little Hebrew (February 2010)
At Richard Malim’s request, we are grateful to Gary for permission to reprint this article, first
published in The Elizabethan Review.
published in The Elizabethan Review.
Gary Goldstein
Shakespeare’s Native Tongue (November 2009)
Richard Malim requested that this be reprinted in the DVS newsletter for this reason: Stratfordians
perennially evoke the use of Warwickshire dialiect in Shakespeare's writings as proof that he was a
native of that region. Gary Goldstein’s refutation of their argument is therefore also worthy of
perennial perusal. We are grateful to Gary for permission to reprint it here.
perennially evoke the use of Warwickshire dialiect in Shakespeare's writings as proof that he was a
native of that region. Gary Goldstein’s refutation of their argument is therefore also worthy of
perennial perusal. We are grateful to Gary for permission to reprint it here.
Charles Graves
Edward de Vere, Euphuism and Bisexuality (April 2020). Discover the Euphuistic origin of Shakespeare's gender-bending plays.
Charles Graves
The Author of The Wisdom of Dr. Doddypol (July 2017) Parallels with A Midsummer Night's Dream and his own life suggest that Edward de Vere was the true author.
Charles Graves
‘Signatures’ of Edward de Vere in Anonymous Plays (October 2016)
W. Ron Hess (assisted by Jan Scheffer, A. Colin Wright and Concetta Thibideaux)
A Wedding Joust in Trebizond: Commedia Erudita and Sinister Politics in 1575
First published in the SOF newsletter, Summer 2018.
W. Ron Hess
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Half of them Dated (Part II, January 2017)
W. Ron Hess
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Half of them Dated (Part I, October 2016)
Amanda Hinds
How I became an Oxfordian
Published on the SOF website, February 2016.
Amanda Hinds and Alexander Waugh
Who was ‘Our English Terence Will: Shake-speare?’
Could it have been William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby? (July 2019)
IQC
£1,000 and the Beginning of England’s National Theatre (October 2016)
Heidi Jannsch
One Pretty Secret: Gervase Markham Reveals Shakespeare’s Identity (January 2017)
Heidi Jannsch
Sogliardo & Co.
Members of the Stratford Corporation in Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour.
Philip Johnson
The Best is Silence (January 2004)
What happens when Stratfordians come across evidence that militates against the man from
Stratford? Philip Johnson, who gave this paper at the London meeting of the DVS in May 2003,
shows how biographers simply omit unpleasant details.
Stratford? Philip Johnson, who gave this paper at the London meeting of the DVS in May 2003,
shows how biographers simply omit unpleasant details.
Eddi Jolly
John Casson, the source for Hamlet, and The Guardian (April 2019)
Eddi Jolly
Shakespeare’s Knowledge of French (October 2018)
Eddi Jolly
Voyages de Shakespeare en France et en Italie (June 2003)
An overlooked masterpiece: A consideration of George Lambin’s book published in 1962.
This paper was given at the AGM held at Birkbeck College, London, May 2003. Should any readers of this article wish to read an English translation of George Lambin’s book, they may wish to research Oxfordian scholar Ron Hess who published a critiqued translation in an appendix to his book, The Dark Side of Shakespeare, Vol. I (ISBN 0-595-24777-6), available on Amazon.
This paper was given at the AGM held at Birkbeck College, London, May 2003. Should any readers of this article wish to read an English translation of George Lambin’s book, they may wish to research Oxfordian scholar Ron Hess who published a critiqued translation in an appendix to his book, The Dark Side of Shakespeare, Vol. I (ISBN 0-595-24777-6), available on Amazon.
Eddi Jolly
‘My mistress’ eyes ...’: A consideration of Sonnet CXXX (June 2003)
This paper was given at the AGM held at Birkbeck College, London (May 2003).
Dr Noemi Magri
Shakespeare and the Ships of the Venetian Republic – A Veronesa: an exact reference
in Othello (March 2011)
in Othello (March 2011)
Dr Noemi Magri
Othello’s House on the Sagittary: Shakespeare’s familiarity with the streets of Venice (February 2010)
Dr Noemi Magri
The Italian Legal System in The Merchant of Venice – the Single Bond: how the play demonstrates
the author’s intimate knowledge of Venetian Law (February 2009)
the author’s intimate knowledge of Venetian Law (February 2009)
Dr Noemi Magri
Hamlet’s ‘The Murder of Gonzago’ in contemporary documents (June 2009)
Dr Noemi Magri
Edward de Vere did not Build Himself a House in Venice. The interpretation of a document
of the Doge’s Secretarial Office (June 2008).
of the Doge’s Secretarial Office (June 2008).
Dr Noemi Magri
Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Illyrian Rulers. Duke Orsino: Historical Truth in Twelfth Night
(March 2008)
(March 2008)
Dr Noemi Magri
Notes for the article ‘Shakespeare’s Illyria and Bohemia’ in the June 2007 Newsletter.
Noemi Magri's article was shorn of its notes for both technical and special reasons.
They are now reproduced below (October 2007).
Noemi Magri's article was shorn of its notes for both technical and special reasons.
They are now reproduced below (October 2007).
Dr Noemi Magri
Orazio v. Nelson (April 2006)
Dr Noemi Magri
Puntarvolo or Puntaruolo?
Noemi Magri explains a matter of the Italian Vocabulary (April 2006)
Dr Noemi Magri
Shakespeare and Italian Renaissance Painting:
The three wanton pictures in The Taming of the Shrew. Dott. Noemi Magri of Mantua gave the following paper to The de Vere Society meeting (May 2005).
Dr Noemi Magri
The Three Systers of Mantua – A Known History and an Unknown Play (December 2005)
Dr Noemi Magri
Oxford and the Greek Church in Venice (September 2003)
In a short letter, Dr Noemi Magri examines one claim in Monstrous Adversary, Alan Nelson’s book.
Dr Noemi Magri
Places in Shakespeare: Belmont and thereabouts (June 2003)
The purpose of the present paper is to show that Belmont is a real place, though differently called
in Italian: its identification has been made possible by the precise geographical information and a
specific historical reference given in the play: it is not geography of the imagination, and the
historical allusion refers to a contemporary event: it is not Shakespeare’s creation. This essay has
also been published in Great Oxford I - Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl
of Oxford (1550-1604). General editor: Richard Malim and published by The de Vere Society.
in Italian: its identification has been made possible by the precise geographical information and a
specific historical reference given in the play: it is not geography of the imagination, and the
historical allusion refers to a contemporary event: it is not Shakespeare’s creation. This essay has
also been published in Great Oxford I - Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl
of Oxford (1550-1604). General editor: Richard Malim and published by The de Vere Society.
Richard Malim
Shakespeare’s Bastard (October 2019)
Richard Malim
Shakespeare: Seventeenth Century Biographical References to Shakespeare as Author (January 2019)
Richard Malim
Oxford the Comedian (October 2018)
Richard Malim
Lawyers and the Shakespeare Authorship Question (April 2018)
Richard Malim
Southwell and Oxford (January 2017)
Richard Malim
A Yorkshire Tragedy (July 2016)
Richard Malim
A ‘New’ Oxford Poem: Verses Upon the Stanley Tomb at Tong in Shropshire (April 2016)
Epitaph to Sir Thomas Stanley (d. 1576)
Richard Malim
No Mistakes in ‘Shakespeare’, a return to Bohemia (June 2008)
Richard Malim
Oxford the Actor (January 2004)
Responsible critics such as Professors Bate and Wells have sought to dismiss the authorship claims
of Oxford by suggesting that he had no ‘hands-on’ connection with the stage. Indeed, Professor Bate
seems to suggest that this element provides incontrovertible evidence of the authorship of William
Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon.
of Oxford by suggesting that he had no ‘hands-on’ connection with the stage. Indeed, Professor Bate
seems to suggest that this element provides incontrovertible evidence of the authorship of William
Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Richard Malim
Shakspere: The Irrelevant Life (DVS, undated)
In a study of Shakespeare, William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon 1564-1616 should barely merit
a five-line footnote. However, because literary ‘orthodoxy’ persists in giving him pride of a somewhat
reduced place (compared to that properly due to Oxford/Shakespeare) in the history of English and
universal literature, Malim reviews his rôle in rather more detail.
a five-line footnote. However, because literary ‘orthodoxy’ persists in giving him pride of a somewhat
reduced place (compared to that properly due to Oxford/Shakespeare) in the history of English and
universal literature, Malim reviews his rôle in rather more detail.
Richard Malim
Shakespeare’s Melancholics (April 2004)
Richard Malim considers the neglected work of a professional psychiatrist.
Richard C. W. Malim
Did Oxford know Ronsard? (June 2003)
Peter Moore
The Stella Cover-up (February 2010)
‘I am delighted to have obtained permission from Gary Goldstein to reproduce one of Peter Moore’s
shorter articles here in the Newsletter. I hope it will whet readers’ appetites for [his] book’ (DVS Ed.):
The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised: Studies in Shakespeare (reviewed by R. Malim in the same issue).
shorter articles here in the Newsletter. I hope it will whet readers’ appetites for [his] book’ (DVS Ed.):
The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised: Studies in Shakespeare (reviewed by R. Malim in the same issue).
H. H. Patrick O’Brien
George North
A Brief Discourse of Rebellions & Rebels (c.1575)
A manuscript written by George North in 1576, uncovered in the British Library, with possible
‘linguistic and thematic correspondences’ between the North manuscript and Shakespeare’s plays.
Daphne O’Shea
Edward de Vere’s Amanuensis:
The artifacts of Abraham Fleming and the Lost Play of Edward de Vere (January 2018)
Marion Peel
John Shakspere’s Finances (October 2013)
Considerably more is known from the public records about John Shakspere than about his son William.
DVS member Marion Peel, who lives in nearby Worcester, has been finding out more so as to explore
the possible influence of the father’s financial dealings on the son’s business career in the theatre.
DVS member Marion Peel, who lives in nearby Worcester, has been finding out more so as to explore
the possible influence of the father’s financial dealings on the son’s business career in the theatre.
Tony Pointon
The Case against William of Stratford (October 2015)
There are many reasons to doubt that a man from Stratford wrote the works of Shakespeare.
Here are twenty such arguments, prepared by Tony Pointon. Further details can be found in
Professor A. J. Pointon’s book The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare (Parapress, 2011).
Also see review below (Reviews, 2011) by Alexander Waugh in the Wall Street Journal.
Here are twenty such arguments, prepared by Tony Pointon. Further details can be found in
Professor A. J. Pointon’s book The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare (Parapress, 2011).
Also see review below (Reviews, 2011) by Alexander Waugh in the Wall Street Journal.
The Rt. Hon. J. Enoch Powell
Francis Meres and the Authorship Question (April 1988)
Report of a presentation to The de Vere Society in February 1988. See also Alexander Waugh’s YouTube video Francis Meres Knew in which he acknowledges Enoch Powell as the first of several scholars and Oxfordians involved in deciphering Mere’s Palladis Tamia (listed under Media/YouTube). Powell refers to his presentation to the DVS in The Shakespeare Mystery (listed under Media/Film & Videos).
Alan Robinson
The Real William Shaksper (January 2004)
The facts known about Shaksper’s life are sparse but very little analysis has been done even of these.
Many deductions and inferences can be made with a fair chance of arriving close to the truth.
This paper was given at the Henley meeting of the DVS in Autumn 2003. A fully referenced version is published in Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604 (Chapter 26, pp.237-243).
Many deductions and inferences can be made with a fair chance of arriving close to the truth.
This paper was given at the Henley meeting of the DVS in Autumn 2003. A fully referenced version is published in Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604 (Chapter 26, pp.237-243).
Joan V. Robinson
Shakespeare and Mr. Looney (March 2008)
From The Cambridge Review, 54, 12 May 1933, pp.389-90.
Jan Scheffer
A Tirade about a Joust in Trebizond: How was Edward De Vere Involved In this Example of Commedia Erudita In 1575? (April 2020)
Provides insight into what Oxford and his friends were up to in Italy.
Jan Scheffer
Oxford’s Capture by Pirates (October 2015)
The author writes from Holland, about his country’s link with Oxford.
Patrick M. Tilton
Athena’s ‘OX’ (January 2020)
Brush up your Greek: a Homeric hymn resonates with Shakespeare.
Alexander Waugh
That ‘Famous Persecutor of Priscian’: Oxford, Shakespeare and the Repurification of English (April 2020)
Oxford is shown to be a powerful advocate of Plain English.
Alexander Waugh
Praise for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (January 2018)
Modern Stratfordian orthodoxy attempts to undermine the case for Oxford as Shakespeare by
insisting that he was a dishonourable man, a poor scholar and a feeble poet. The following selection
of allusions to him amply demonstrates that before he was recommended as the most likely author
of the Shakespearean canon in 1920, literary historians and many of his contemporaries thought otherwise.
insisting that he was a dishonourable man, a poor scholar and a feeble poet. The following selection
of allusions to him amply demonstrates that before he was recommended as the most likely author
of the Shakespearean canon in 1920, literary historians and many of his contemporaries thought otherwise.
Alexander Waugh
Oxford as ‘Shakespeare’ (April 2018)
This article is reproduced from a new scholarly book, My Shakespeare, edited by William Leahy and published by EER. The anthology also prints new pieces arguing for Marlowe (Ros Barber), for Mary Sidney (Robin Williams), for Francis Bacon (Barry Clarke), for Stratford-Shaksper (Alan Nelson), for Henry Neville (Rubinstein, Casson & Ewald), as well as thoughtful contributions from William Leahy (an amalgamated Shakespeare) and Diana Price (Stratford-Shakspere as broker).
Alexander Waugh
Hidden Truths: Part II (October 2017)
Alexander Waugh explains where Edward de Vere is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Alexander Waugh
Hidden Truths in Written and Pictorial Notes: Part I (April 2017)
Alexander Waugh
Shakespeare’s Pole: Oxford, Burghley, Coryat and Polonius (October 2016)
Alexander Waugh
Shakespeare’s Missing Connections (July 2016)
Alexander Waugh
Thy Stratford Moniment
‘Thy Stratford Moniment’ – Revisited (October 2014). Holistic interpretation by Alexander Waugh
from a talk given at the DVS meeting in September 2014.
from a talk given at the DVS meeting in September 2014.
Alexander Waugh
John Weever – Another Anti-Stratfordian (May 2014)
Alexander Waugh
A Secret Revealed. William Covell and his ‘Polimanteia’ (1595) (October 2013)
Covell’s 1595 allusion to ‘Shake-speare’ as a pseudonym.
Hank Whittemore
Oxford seen in the plays: Reasons 7 & 91 why Shakespeare was Oxford (January 2018)
Reason 7 – ‘The Courtier’ / Reason 91 – Dramatic Literature
Hank Whittemore
Reasons 52 & 53 why Shakespeare was Oxford (October 2017)
Reason 52 – Oxford and the Sonnets /
Reason 53 – Oxford and Southampton
Hank Whittemore
Reasons 60 & 81 why Shakespeare was Oxford (July 2017)
Reason 60 – Sea and Seamanship /
Reason 81 – The Tempest
Hank Whittemore
Specialized Knowledge: Why Shakespeare was Oxford (April 2017)
Reason 59 – Medical Knowledge /
Reason 61 – ‘Methinks I Have Astronomy’
Hank Whittemore
Man of the Theatre: Reasons 1 & 2 why Shakespeare was Oxford (January 2017)
Reason 1 – The Patron-Playwright /
Reason 2 – The Allowed Fool
Heward Wilkinson
Current DVS Vice-chairman
Except where mentioned, all the articles below are taken from the website: http://hewardwilkinson.co.uk
Heward Wilkinson
Deceptive Displacements and the SAQ
Heward Wilkinson
Leavis on Lawrence on Shakespeare
Heward Wilkinson
Dissociation of Sensibility and Amnesia for the SAQ
Heward Wilkinson
Cordelia’s Silence, Edgar’s Secrecy
(Published in Brief Chronicles, Vol.II, 2010)
Heward Wilkinson
Hamlet and Historical Consciousness
Heward Wilkinson
Playing with the Play-within-the-play in Hamlet
Heward Wilkinson
Should Oxfordians be Post-Modernists?
Heward Wilkinson
An Abyss of Alternatives
The Psychodynamics of the SAQ
Heward Wilkinson
How I became an Oxfordian
Published on the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship website in February 2016.
Reviews
Reviews 2020
Who Wrote That? Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov
By Donald Ostrowski (June 2020)
Reviewer: Kevin Gilvary (October 2020)
The case for Edward de Vere as the real William Shakespeare: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom
By John Milnes Baker (2020)
Reviewer: Alice Crampin (April 2020)
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny
By Clare Asquith (2018)
Reviewer: Tony Herbert (April 2020)
The Upstart Crow
Theatre play by Ben Elton (2020)
Reviewer: Tony Herbert (April 2020)
A Question of Will
By Lynne Kositsky (2001/2019)
Reviewer: Alice Crampin (January 2020)
Reviews 2019
Early Shakespeare Authorship Doubts
By Bryan Wildenthal (2019)
Reviewer: Alice Crampin (October 2019)
Nothing Truer Than Truth
Play by Darrol Blake (2019)
Reviewer: Eddi Jolly (October 2019)
Nothing is Truer Than Truth
Film by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan / Controversy Films (2019)
Reviewer: Tony Herbert (July 2019)
All is True
Film by Kenneth Branagh (2019)
Reviewer: Amanda Hinds (July 2019)
Hamlet’s Elsinore Revisited
By Sven F. Vedi and Gerold Wagner (2018)
Reviewer: Eddi Jolly (April 2019)
Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare
By Barry R. Clarke (2019)
Reviewer: Eddi Jolly (April 2019)
Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question
By Bonner Miller Cutting (2019)
Reviewer: Richard Malim (April 2019)
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
National Portrait Gallery, London (21 February – 19 May 2019)
Reviewer: James Alexander (April 2019)
Shakespeare’s Dark Lady
By John Hudson (2014)
Reviewer: James Alexander (January 2019)
Shakespeare’s Apprentice
By Ramon Jiménez (2018)
Reviewer: Amanda Hinds (January 2019)
Reviews 2018
Shakespeare’s Secrets
Novel by Aaron Tatum (2018)
Reviewer: Evans Donnell (October 2018)
Shakespeare’s Wilderness
By David Rains Wallace (2017)
Reviewer: Patricia Keeney (July 2018)
The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
By Kevin Gilvary (2018)
Reviewer: Eddi Jolly (April 2018)
Reviews 2017
Reflections on the True Shakespeare
By Gary Goldstein (2016)
Reviewer: Alexander Waugh (January 2017)
The Great Debate: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Alexander Waugh vs. Jonathan Bate
Reviewers: Julia Cleave and Kevin Gilvary (October 2017)
Reviews 2016
Shakespeare’s Money – How much did he make and what did this mean?
By Robert Bearman (Oxford U.P., 2016)
Reviewer: Richard Malim
The Case for Edward de Vere
By Geoffrey Eyre (2015)
Reviewer: Richard Malim (January 2016)
Reviews 2014
Mr. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays
By Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (eds.)
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2013
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt
By Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells
Reviewer: Richard Malim
The Truth about William Shakespeare
By David Ellis
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2012
The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare
By A. J. Pointon
Reviewer: Kevin Gilvary
Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
By William D. Rubinstein
Reviewer: Kevin Gilvary
The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard’s Unknown Travels
By Richard Paul Roe
Reviewer: Christopher Dams
Reviews 2011
James Shapiro’s TV series ‘The King and the Playwright’
Reviewer: Richard Malim
The Man Who Was Hamlet
George Dillon’s one-man show
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
By James Shapiro
Reviewer: DVS
‘Anonymous’ film release
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reviewer: DVS
The Oxfordian Edition of Othello
Edited by Prof. Ren Draya and Richard F. Whalen
Reviewer: Christopher Dams
Shakespeare: The concealed poet
By Robert Detobel
Reviewers: Jan Scheffer and Elke Brackmann
The Man Who Was Never Shakespeare
By A. J. Pointon
Reviewer: Alexander Waugh in the Wall Street Journal Review of Books
Reviews 2010
Dating Shakespeare’s Plays: A critical review of the evidence
Edited by Kevin Gilvary
The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised: Studies in Shakespeare
By Peter R. Moore
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Shakespeare and his authors: Critical perspectives on the Authorship Question (Ed: William Leahy)
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2009
Soul of the Age – The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
By Jonathan Bate
Reviewer: Richard Malim
The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy
By Heward Wilkinson
Reviewer: Richard M. Waugaman
Reviews 2008
Shakespeare Revealed
By Rene Weis
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2007
Shakespeare & Co.
By Stanley Wells
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Shakespeare Marlowe Jonson: New Directions in Biography (Eds. Mulryne and Kozuka)
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviewer’s note: With a bit more space I would have pointed out more clearly that ‘Sparrow’ in Guy of Warwick and ‘Shaxberd’ in the Court Revels record looks like the same sort of denigration: that Buc’s ‘teste’ reference is to a ‘minister’ (a Churchman) acting in a play, a suggestion so ludicrous as to render the suggested Stratford connection a joke (which it was, and whose?).
The Wonder Mind: Shakespeare the Thinker
By Prof A. D. Nuttall
Reviewer: Richard Malim
I Am Shakespeare
By Mark Rylance
Reviewer: John Gill
Reviews 2006
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
By James Shapiro
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Shakespeare’s Invention of the Human
By Harold Bloom
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Fletcher – The ‘Poet-Ape’: Shadowplay
By Claire Asquith
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Pseudonymous Shakespeare
By Penny McCarthy
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2005
Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
By Stephen Greenblatt
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Shakespeare: The Biography, an analysis of the book
By Peter Ackroyd
Reviewer: Richard Malim
Reviews 2004
Monstrous Adversary
By Alan Nelson
Observations by Kevin Gilvary, Philip Johnson and Eddi Jolly. “Since 1920, Oxford has been touted by amateur historians and conspiracy theorists as the true author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. It has become a matter of urgency to measure the real Oxford against the myth created by his apologists, and uncritically embraced by television documentaries, by playwrights and by the popular press …” Quoted by the publishers on the back cover from the author’s introduction (omitting the final ‘even by justices of the United States Supreme Court’).
Demonography 101
By Peter Moore
[An extended Critique taken from pages 288-311 of The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised – see Publications “WE RECOMMEND” – by kind permission of Verlag Uwe Laugwitz.]
The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: Their Poems and their Contexts
By Stephen May
Reviewer: Tom Veal
Reviews 2003
In Search of Shakespeare
Michael Wood; London, BBC (2003)
Reviewer: Kevin Gilvary –
The answers may be correct but the questions are wrong.
Reviews 2001
Shakespeare: A Life
By Park Honan
Reviewer: Richard Malim