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Autumn Meeting of the DVS

Saturday 27 September, 2008

Darwin Centre, Hamilton Building,
Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex

Price: £20 including lunch

Programme:
10.00
Meet & register; tea / coffee

10.30
Welcome Address by Dr William Leahy

11.00
Talk by Gerit Quealey Play-scripts & Portraiture: the artifacts of Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford

12.00
Ask the Panel: Gerit Quealey, Bill Leahy, Eddi Jolly & Christopher Dams

12.45
Lunch

2.00
George Dillon: Hamlet, Oxford and the Italian Rapier

3.00
Sale of books from the Society Library

3.30
Tea / Coffee / Wine

Directions
Either drive 4 miles N of Heathrow Airport or take London Underground westbound on Metropolitan Line (quicker) or Picadilly line (slower) to UXBRIDGE and walk 20 mins or taxi about £5.

To reserve a place (or places), please contact:

Kevin Gilvary
DVS Hon Treasurer
6 Rosedale Close
Titchfield
Fareham
PO14 4EL
UK tel 01329 842689
e-mail: kevingilvary@btinternet.com

Cheques payable to ‘De Vere Society’


The Man Who Was Hamlet
Who really wrote Hamlet? Award-winning performer George Dillon returns to Edinburgh after six years with his new play, The Man Who Was Hamlet, which tells the comical, tragical, romantic and utterly scandalous history of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, the leading alternative candidate for the authorship of the works of ‘William Shakespeare’.

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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by James Shapiro
Faber £20 pp360

At long last, a noted Stratfordian has got round to doing what Oxfordians have been asking them to do for years and published a considered critique of the Shakespeare Authorship Question.

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