Shakespeare Authorship Q&A - Everything You Always Wanted To Know

Blue Boar regulars Bonner Cutting, Dorothea Dickerman, and Jonathan Dixon are joined by Alex McNeil, star of Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s popular “Shakespeare 101” video, to answer questions about Shakespeare, Oxford, and all things authorship.

00:00 Welcome to the Blue Boar!
05:30 What are some of Alex's favorite articles from his tenure as editor of the SOF Newsletter?
10:10 The dangers of letter writing in Elizabethan England
12:40 Have the Vatican archives been searched for material relevant to the Shakespeare/Oxford question?
18:50 What are your predictions for the coming year?
24:50 Why are we supposed to believe that the "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets is just ONE woman?
32:30 Where might the next significant breakthroughs on the Shakespeare attribution be found?
33:00 Alex's Authorship 101 video was posted 3 months ago and now it has 10k views.
37:35 Does the view of Elizabethan England as akin to a modern police state make the need for a front man more likely?
46:40 Why are many poems written from the view of the woman?
48:00 Where to find Peregrine Bertie's summary of his 3 months in Denmark?
48:40 Isn't Heminges’ and Condell’s First Folio letter personal testimony connecting the man from Stratford to the plays?
59:25 Comment on Audley End please?
1:00:50 Thoughts on the Ostler-Heminges lawsuit that says the Shakespeare shareholder was dead in 1615?
1:02:55 Do you think we will ever find out what caused the death of Oxford?
1:04:20 Do you believe Oxford had collaborators even during the last 12 years of his life? If so, who?

Recorded live on December 5, 2023. Learn more at https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org

Articles mentioned:
Report from the Folger Library's conference on "Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography": https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...
An Hour with Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...
The Persistent Mystery of Oxford’s Annuity: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...
Oxfordians List Their Favorite Books: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...
Six Shaky Signatures: What’s the Proof That Shakespeare Wrote Them?: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o...