Kevin Gilvary — 21st Century Fictional Biographies of Shakespeare

Kevin Gilvary, Ph.D., President of the U.K.’s De Vere Society and 2011 Oxfordian of the Year, edited Dating Shakespeare’s Plays (2010) (available online and recently reissued by Portsea Press) and wrote The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare (2018) (based on his Ph.D. dissertation).

This talk was presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Spring 2021 International Online Symposium on April 10, 2021.

[patricktilton]

Great presentation! Your book on dating Shakespeare's plays is invaluable, and one I'm proud to have in my own collection. I can't wait to see the new Shakespeare Allusion Book that Waugh & Stritmatter are working on, as well as the previously unknown papers referred to at the end of this video, mentioned by Alexander. The Maat feather of Truth is gradually tipping the scales; I can already hear Thoth declaring, :Maa kheru!"

[floatingholmes]

Bravo and wow.

Entertaining and powerful case for the official story to be met with contempt.

[stephenmatthews]

Well put Kevin! One quibble: you seemed to accept Manningham’s ‘story’ as a piece of autobiographical information. But as others have said, it’s much more likely to be an off-colour joke, of the kind relished by schoolboys and undergraduates since time immemorial...