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DVS Reviews
reviews by members of the de vere society showing the range of our research
Reviews 2023
Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies
By Elizabeth Winkler (July 2023)
Reviewer: Brigadier General Jack Shuttleworth
Reviews 2022
Oxford Voices
Comprehensive review making it easier to navigate this fascinating online publication
Reviewer: Jonathan Foss
Shakespearean Authorship Trust Conference 2022
SAT conference held online via Zoom - ‘Volumes that I prize above my dukedom: Shakespeare’s Sources’
Reviewer: Amanda Hinds
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
An Early Play by the Real Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford
Reviewer: Richard Malim
The Living Record
Book by Hank Whittemore. This review concludes that the book is ‘a must-read for those looking for new developments in the life of Shakespeare and as food for thought for any Shakespeare enthusiast.
Reviewer: Jennifer Pommer
Shakespeare’s Revolution
The author’s previous book The Making of Shakespeare is greatly expanded to include Oxford’s juvenilia, the aftermath of his career and his posthumous reputation.
Reviewer: Elizabeth Imlay
Shakespeare’s Revolution
Appreciation by Geoffrey Eyre, with the conclusion: ‘It is a worthy addition to the worldwide authorship quest for truth. It is a delight to read and repays careful study
Reviewer: Geoffrey Eyre
Shakespeare and Religio Mentis
A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays by Jane Nelson A detailed ‘preview’ of limited information available that should ‘generate huge interest amongst both its professional and lay readership.
Reviewer: Robert Baxter
Reviews 2021
Hamlet
Theatre performance starring Sir Ian McKellen at the Theatre Royal, Windsor
Reviewer: Richard Vaughan Davies (October 2021)
Shakespeare Revolutionized
Book by James A. Warren (2021)
Reviewer: Heward Wilkinson (October 2021)
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work
Book by Michael Blanding (March 2021)
Reviewer: Patrick O'Brien (July 2021)
Renaissance Man: The World of Thomas Watson
Book by Ian Johnson (July 2020)
Reviewer: Kevin Gilvary (January 2021)
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
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