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Excellent new article on the Oxfraud website about Emelia Bassano Lanier, and the ridiculous theory that she wrote works attributed to Shakespeare (as promoted by Jodi Picoult and Elizabeth Winkler). Great analysis!
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Good to see *New Places: Shakespeare & Civic Creativity* in such distinguished company!
@Paul_Edmondson & I edited it to promote Shakespeare's continuing & productive life in all sorts of communities so I suppose it represents a sort of Shakespeare Rebirth Place Trust.
At the staff & volunteers' 'fair' displaying some of our Research wares with @stanley_wells & Lena Orlin @ShakespeareBT (in the Town Hall). @ShakesInstitute @EFernie @kscheilmn
1/2 Shakespeare authorship deniers (SADs) often ask why Shakespeare's death didn't cause greater public expressions of grief. But Shakespeare had left the stage years earlier and was living in Stratford, and his plays were still being regularly performed by his former fellows,
2/2 including Richard Burbage, Henry Condell and John Hemminges. But three years later, Burbage's death and the end of his dominance of the Jacobean stage (mostly in roles written by Shakespeare) triggered a great reaction, including by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, later
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A copy #Thefirstfolio of #WilliamShakespeare sold in 2020 for $10 million was the most expensive work of literature ever sold! What makes this book so important? Listen now to @DrCLaoutaris share the story. bit.ly/RRRepisodes bit.ly/youtubeRRR
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Hilariously, it's also a lie. That phrase (1 Sam. 17:7) is NOT underlined in the copy of the Geneva Bible that allegedly belonged to Oxford. I just looked it up.
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ALT 1 Samuel 17:7 in the Geneva Bible (call number: STC 2106 copy 1)
1/ The dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets wished "the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets Mr. W.H. "all happinesse and that eternitie promised by our ever living poet ..." Oxfordians claim that the reference to an "ever living poet" is to a deceased poet.
2/ But a review of uses of "ever living" in the Early English Books Online database shows that the phrase is most frequently used to describe God. The phrase "everliving God" accounts for 2/3rds of the uses of the term "everliving" in the EEBO.
Elizabeth Winkler was thanked by co-author of this letter to the editor, Margo Anderson, for helping "get the piece into shape and get it to the right people at the Guardian." Here she praises the letter without mentioning her involvement in writing it and getting it published.
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This is obviously some new definition of the phrase 'strong evidence', with which I've hitherto been unfamiliar.
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Happy birthday, Sir Stanley Wells!
๐ Wishing our Honorary President, Professor Sir Stanley Wells, the happiest of birthdays. ๐
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May 15, 1611: Earliest recorded performance of The Winter's Tale occurs at the Globe. #OTD #Shakespeare
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Anne Hathaway's Tombstone in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon | Tom Reedy | CCASA3.0 | buff.ly/3uBkg3r
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As a hapless student once wrote, "Shakespeareโs plays were written by William Shakespeare or another man of that name." @oliverkamm shows that they really were written by Will, and why that matters. | The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism quillette.com/2024/05/02/theโฆ
