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Chandler's essay: "J. Thomas Looney, the first Oxfordian, brushed aside the "labyrinths of Baconian cryptograms" (Looney, 103) and stressed that: "it is not from intentional self-disclosure that we should expect to discover the author, but from more or less unconscious indications of himself in the writings..." (96).

Secret Works

Mark Anderson sums up the works of Shakespeare: “Writing ultimately became a cathartic exercise performed not for his [Oxford’s] sovereign or for his peers but rather for himself–his own mechanism for psychological and spiritual salvation.” {SBAN 379}

"yf yow wowld haue had the patience to haue vnderstood me"

Oxford’s letter to Burghley 27 Apr 1576: “This myght haue bene done throwght [=through] priuat conference before and had not neded to haue bene the fable of the world yf yow wowld haue had the patience to haue vnderstood me, but I doo not know by what ore whose aduise it was, to rune that course so contrarie to my will or meaninge, ...”

Anonymous plays associated with Oxford

• "Agamemnon and Ulysses" - performed by Oxford's Boys in 1584
• "The weakest goeth to the wall" (1600) - performed by Earl of Oxenford his servants
• "the true historye of GEORGE SCANDERBARGE" - performed by Earl of Oxenford his servants 1601

• See Oxford's Men

• NOTE: Are there any published arguments which attempt to connect these plays to Oxford as author? What about other anonymous plays (see http://lostplays.org/index.php/Anonymous_Plays)?

Suggestion #1 to Oxfordians

Post cites to articles/books written by Oxfordians published mainstream on Wikipedia.

• Ex. re Stritmatter/Kositsky Tempest articles:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Roger_Stritmatter&diff=603821449&oldid=596114691
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Lynne_Kositsky&diff=603821740&oldid=593356013
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=The_Tempest&diff=603822289&oldid=601058490

Also, post same as a bibliography on http://www.shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org

Suggestion #2 to Oxfordians

Locate books owned by Oxford via various library, museum, auction house, and book-seller catalogs. Also, search any known private collections.

See David McPherson’s “Ben Jonson’s Library and Marginalia: An Annotated Catalogue” *Studies in Philology* 71: 5 (Dec, 1974): 1+3-106 which lists 200+ books. McPherson uses Herford and Simpson’s lists of books as published in their Oxford edition of Jonson Vol. I (1925) and Vol. XI (1952) as a basis for his research. He does note that Hazlitt compiled a list of 25 books in 1899 and Ramsey added 28 in 1907.

Why haven’t de Vere’s books (other than his Geneva Bible) been found? Where are de Vere’s copies of Ovid and translation by Golding? What about his copies of Chaucer, Plutarch, Cicero and Plato which were purchased at the same time as his Geneva Bible? And what about all of the books which the author dedicated to de Vere?

Have all of the surviving quartos of Shakespeare’s plays and Lucrece and V&A published before de Vere’s death been scoured for marginalia?

Cites on WP to articles published mainstream by Oxfordians

• Biblical allusions in Shakespeare
  • Stritmatter, Roger “The Heavenly Treasure of Sonnets 48 and 52” Notes and Queries 46(2) (Jun 1999): 226-8.
  • Stritmatter, Roger “The Influence of a Genevan Note from Romans 7:19 on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 151” Notes and Queries 44(4) (Dec 1997): 514-6.
  • Stritmatter, Roger A. The Marginalia of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible: Providential Discovery, Literary Reasoning, and Historical Consequence Feb 2001.
  • Stritmatter, Roger “A New Biblical Source for Shakespeare’s Concept of ‘All Seeing Heaven’” Notes and Queries 46(2) (Jun 1999): 207-9.
  • Stritmatter, Roger “By Providence Divine: Shakespeare’s Awareness of Some Geneva Marginal Notes of I Samuel” Notes and Queries 47(1) (Mar 2000): 97-100.
  • Stritmatter, Roger “Shakespeare’s Ecclesiasticus 28.2-5: A Biblical Source for Ariel’s Doctrine of Mercy” Notes and Queries 56(1) (Mar 2009): 67-70.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “Maniculed Psalms in the de Vere Bible: A New Literary Source for Shakespeare” Brief Chronicles II (2010): 107-17.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “Psalm Echoes in Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, Richard II, and Edward III” Notes and Queries 57(3) (Jun 2010): 359-64.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “Sonnet 6 and the First Marked Passage in de Vere’s Bible” Shakespeare Matters 9 (Fall 2010): 15-18.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “The Sternhold and Hopkins Whole Book of Psalms is a Major Source for the Works of Shakespeare” Notes and Queries 56(4) (Dec 2009): 595-604.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “The Sternhold and Hopkins Whole Booke of Psalms: Crucial Evidence for Edward de Vere’s Authorship of the Works of Shakespeare” Brief Chronicles III (2010): 209-30.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “Titus Andronicus, the Psalms, and Edward de Vere’s Bible” The Oxfordian XIII (2011): 1-17.
  • Waugaman, Richard M. “What’s in a Manicule? The de Vere Psalms as a New Shakespearean Source” Brief Chronicles II (2010): 109-20.

• Hamlet
  • Wainwright, Michael. "Veering Toward an Evolutionary Realignment of Freud’s Hamlet" Brief Chronicles III (2011): 9-35.

• Macbeth
  • Showerman, Earl. "Shakespeare’s Greater Greek: Macbeth and Aeschylus’ Oresteia" Brief Chronicles III (2011): 37-70.

• Much Ado About Nothing
  • Showerman, Earl. "Shakespeare’s Many Much Ado's: Alcestis, Hercules, and Love’s Labour’s Wonne" Brief Chronicles I (2009): 109-140.

• The Phoenix and the Turtle
  • Waugaman, Richard M. "The 1574 Mirour for Magistrates is a Possible Source of ‘Feath'red King’ in Shakespeare's ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’" Cahiers Élisabéthains 85 (Spring 2014): 67-72.

• The Tempest
  • Stritmatter, Roger and Lynne Kositsky, "Shakespeare and the Voyagers Revisted" Review of English Studies 58:236 (September 2007): 447-472.
  • Stritmatter, Roger and Lynne Kositsky, "O Brave New Worlde: The Tempest and Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo" Critical Survey 21: 2 (Summer 2009): 7-42.
  • Stritmatter, Roger and Lynne Kositsky, "A Movable Feast: The Tempest as Shrovetide Revelry" The Shakespeare Yearbook (Volume XVII): 365-404.
  • Stritmatter, Roger and Lynne Kositsky, On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest, McFarland & Company, 2013.

• Kositsky, Lynne
  • With Roger Stritmatter, "Shakespeare and the Voyagers Revisted" Review of English Studies 58:236 (September 2007): 447-472.
  • With Roger Stritmatter, "O Brave New Worlde: The Tempest and Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo" Critical Survey 21: 2 (Summer 2009): 7-42.
  • With Roger Stritmatter, "A Movable Feast: The Tempest as Shrovetide Revelry" The Shakespeare Yearbook (Volume XVII): 365-404.
  • With Roger Stritmatter, On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest, McFarland & Company, 2013.

• Stritmatter, Roger
  • "The Influence of a Genevan Note from Romans 7:19 on Shakespeare's Sonnet 151" Notes and Queries (1997) 44 (4): 514-516.
  • "A New Biblical Source for Shakespeare's Concept of 'All Seeing Heaven'" Notes and Queries (1999) 46 (2): 207-209.
  • "The Heavenly Treasure of Sonnets 48 and 52" Notes and Queries (1999) 46 (2): 226-228.
  • "'Old' and 'New' Law in The Merchant of Venice: A Note on the Source of Shylock's Morality in Deuteronomy 15" Notes and Queries (2000) 47 (1): 70-72.
  • "By Providence Divine: Shakespeare's Awareness of Some Geneva Marginal Notes of I Samuel" Notes and Queries (2000) 47 (1): 97-100.
  • The Marginalia of Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible: Providential Discovery, Literary Reasoning, and Historical Consequence. University of Massachusetts PhD Dissertation, February 2001.
  • "The Biblical Source of Harry of Cornwall's Theological Doctrine" Notes and Queries (2001) 48 (3): 280-282.
  • "A Law Case in Verse: Venus and Adonis and the Authorship Question." University of Tennessee Law Review 72:1 (Fall 2004): 171-219.
  • With Lynne Kositsky, "Shakespeare and the Voyagers Revisted" Review of English Studies 58:236 (September 2007): 447-472.
  • "Shakespeare's Ecclesiasticus 28.2–5: A Biblical Source for Ariel's Doctrine of Mercy" Notes and Queries (2009) 56 (1): 67-70.
  • With Lynne Kositsky, "O Brave New Worlde: The Tempest and Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo" Critical Survey 21: 2 (Summer 2009): 7-42.
  • With Lynne Kositsky, "A Movable Feast: The Tempest as Shrovetide Revelry" The Shakespeare Yearbook (Volume XVII): 365-404.
  • "Revelations 14:13 and Hamlet I.v.91–108: 'Write, Blessed are the Dead!'" Notes and Queries (2013) 60 (3): 415-418.
  • With Lynne Kositsky, On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest, McFarland & Company, 2013.

Cites to add

• Stritmatter
  • “Shifting the Center of Gravity of the Falstaffiad: The Advantage of an Early Date for Merry Wives of Windsor,” Cahiers Élisabéthains 80 (Fall 2011): 47-52.
  • “Spenser’s 'Perfect Pattern of a Poet' and the 17th Earl of Oxford.” Cahiers Élisabéthains 77 (Spring 2010): 9-22.
  • “The Tortured Signifier: Satire, Censorship, and the Textual History of Troilus and Cressida,” Critical Survey 21:2 (2009): 60-82.
  • “’Tilting Under Frieries’: Narcissus (1595) and the Affair at Blackfriars,” Cahiers Élisabéthains, 70 (Autumn 2006): 39-42.
  • “What’s In a Name? Everything, Apparently,” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 60:2 (2006): 37-49.

Oxford's Men Edward de Vere

• Agamemnon and Ulysses ""Agamemnon and Ulysses" was performed by the Earl of Oxford's Boys at court on St. John's Day (27 December) 1584."
• The Weakest Goeth to the Wall
• George Scanderbeg "Stationers' Register, 3 July 1601: iiio Julij Edward Alde[e] Entred for his Copye vnder the hand of master whyte warden ‘the true historye of GEORGE SCANDERBARGE’ as yt was lately playd by the right honorable the Earle of OXENFORD his servantes."
  • "The S.R. entry clearly shows that the play was registered to the Earl of Oxford's players, and the description of it as "lately playd" supports the theory that it was performed in or around 1601. Oxford's Men are known to have been active in 1600 (The Weakest Goeth to the Wall was entered in the S.R. on 23 October), so this attribution appears sound. By early autumn 1601, Oxford's Men had amalgamated with Worcester's and were most likely at the Boar's Head Theater in Whitechapel (Berry 51), which is thus the most likely venue for the Scanderbeg play. The amalgamated company's members included Christopher Beeston, John Duke, Thomas Heywood, Will Kempe, John Lowin, Robert Pallant, and Richard Perkins."
• Earl of Oxford's Players
• Earl of Oxford's Musicians
• Earl of Oxford's Bearward

Oxford's Men Henry de Vere

• Earl of Oxford's Trumpeters
• Earl of Oxford's Trumpeters

Francis Bacon

• Cole, Porter D. H. Bacon's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1950.

Christopher Marlowe

• Cornelius, R. M. Christopher Marlowe's Use of the Bible. New York : P. Lang, 1984.

Possible books owned by Edward de Vere

See list here.

Numerology in Shakespeare

• Butler, Christopher and Alastair Fowler. "Time-Beguiling Sport: Number Symbolism in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis" from Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism), ed. Philip C. Kolin. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. [Essay first published in Shakespeare, 1564-1964: A Collection of Modern Essays by Various Hands. ed. Edward A. Bloom. Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1964.]
  • (p. 158) Basically, Butler and Fowler contend that V&A is structured upon "a numerological pattern, and in particular a temporal one." So per their calculations (p. 160), "The number of lines for a full day and night of twenty-four natural hours would therefore be 1032. Hence, dividing by twenty-four, we determine the measure for one hour: a modulus which turns out to be exactly forty-three." Later, they explain (through the poem itself and calculations) that the number "twenty" is an important play in V&A and that "twenty" represents Southampton's age when the poem first appeared.

• Fowler, Alastair. Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
  • (p. 184) Fowler maintains that the exclusion of Sonnet 136 per its self-referencing "Among a number one is reckon'd none" suggests that "the structural pattern of the irregular sonnets constitutes arrangement in a sequence of 153 + 1." He further notes (p. 185) that "153" is the sum of the first 17 natural numbers (i.e. 1+2+3+...+17).

Jonson's Eulogy in First Folio

• Alexander Waugh. “Waugh on Jonson’s ‘Sweet Swan of Avon’” The Oxfordian 16 (2014): 97-103 http://www.shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/Waugh.Swan-of-Avon.pdf
• natwhilk. “Brave New Avon” at oxfraud.com http://oxfraud.com/100-braver-new-avon
• John Leland. “Cygnea Cantio” (1545), a topographical poem [re Avona]
• William Camden. Britannia (1607) [re Leland's usage of Avona; poem “Tamae Isisque Connubio”]
• William Camden. Fragments of “Tamae Isisque Connubio” (ante-1586) in Britannia (1607)
• Mythological Pollux
• Julius Pollux
• http://noodlework.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/sweet-swan-of-avon-shakespeare-jonson-oxford/

Wiki Pages I Have Started

• Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - with assist from User:Tom_Reedy... Thx Tom!
• Bob Grumman - with assist from User:Tom_Reedy... Thx Tom!
• Motawi Tileworks
• Naseeb Shaheen
• Richard M. Waugaman
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