SOF Spring International Online Symposium 2021

The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Spring 2021 International Online Symposium was presented over Zoom on April 10, 2021.

This video includes the full Symposium. Individual videos are also available for each of the main talks.

Welcome and Introduction by Cheryl Eagan-Donovan and Dr. Earl Showerman

Kevin Gilvary, Ph.D. (President of the U.K.’s De Vere Society and 2011 Oxfordian of the Year) — 21st Century Fictional Biographies of Shakespeare

James A. Warren (retired diplomat and 2020 Oxfordian of the Year) — The Oxfordian Movement and Academia

Michael Dudley, M.L.I.S., M.C.P. (Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) — The Stratfordian Belief System, Epistemic Injustice, and Academic Freedom

Julia Cleave, M.A. (Oxford University) — “Excellent. I smell a device.” Shakespeare, in three of his comedies, makes sport with a colourful cast of Queen Elizabeth’s actual suitors: English, French, Spanish, German, and Swedish

Professor Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D. (Shakespearean scholar and 2013 Oxfordian of the Year) — Witty Numbers: Ben Jonson’s First Folio Jest in Context

Dorothea Dickerman, J.D. — The First Thing We Do, Let’s Convince All the Lawyers

Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, M.F.A. (film director, writer, lecturer, and 2019 Oxfordian of the Year), Professor Stritmatter, and Dr. Gilvary — Manuscript Circulation and the Band of Brothers — Eagan-Donovan, director of the acclaimed documentary Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018), leads a discussion on the circulation of manuscripts among Oxford’s literary circle.

Mr. Warren, Professor Stritmatter, and Dr. Gilvary — Oxfordian Publications Panel.

Conferral of the inaugural Tom Regnier Veritas Award by SOF Vice President Julie Sandys Bianchi

Concluding remarks by Ms. Eagan-Donovan and Dr. Showerman.

[enheduannapax]

Thank you all for the immense research, publications and for recording these sessions. I’ve been passionately interested in this subject for a short time comparatively but it has fired my interest in the canon and the author in a way nothing else has ever done.

I can’t wait for revelations regarding new documents!

[EverTheTwain]

I just want the Earl of Oxford re-mix track, it is solid gold

[RabbitHorse]

Time Stamps

6:30 Kevin Gilvary: Stratford evidence vs Oxford evidence

33:08 James Warren: 3 Levels of Resistance

1:02:33 Michael Dudley: Stratfordian Beliefs and Teaching Practices

1:34:00 video contest winner

1:37:00 Julia Cleave: the Queen's suitors in Shakespeare's plays

2:06:50 Roger Stritmatter: Ben Jonson's intro to the First Folio

2:43:45 Dorothea Dickerman: Convince the Lawyers

3:14:30 video contest winner

3:17:40 Cheryl, Roger, and Kevin: Manuscript Circulation

3:49:20 video contest winner

3:52:30 Julie Bianchi presents the Award

3:55:30 Concluding Remarks

[emmabradford]

why isn't this more popular? the film of the Oxfordian letting the Stratfordian hang himself by his own fallacy is delicious

[EverTheTwain]

What does the witch on the left say before the witch on the right says, "It really is." I've watched this over and over and can't figure it out. Fantastic videos at the end

[jojoquigley]

I highly recommend the movie, Nothing Truer Than Truth (buy or rent on YouTube).

[jerryg]

The mentioned book ( as great as it is! ) is neglecting one ( probably most important issue! ) The literary departments are NOT a history departments! This is an issue of historicity of the participants.The issue should be subjected to normal historical methodology and nothing else.

[Rovinman]

I would like to know, What Shaksper (?) actually did in London.
Is there any documentary evidence for his engagement with any Patronised group of players.
Is there any evidence for his working at any of the theatres ?
Maybe he worked as a clerk, collecting plays, logging them in, setting up prompt books, etc.,
Is there Anything at all which documents his life in London.
Thank you for any information !
Stuart.

[onefeather]

Shakespeare did Not write Shakespeare. ❤️📖📚

[ericpenrose]

Applies widely. Resort to "conspiracy theorist" blame is a widespread techique - saying nothing just an attempt to manage opinion through guilt by association (a hinted insinuation), ridicule and distraction from content.