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The Shakespearean Authorship Trust & Brunel University present

The 2008 Silberrad Memorial Lectures on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

6 November
John Michell
‘Who Wrote Shakespeare? The Candidates & their Promoters’


All the interesting characters who are claimed by their supporters to be the true Shakespeare have significant points in their favour, yet no single claim has gained universal acceptance. John Michell, author of ‘Who Wrote Shakespeare?’ (1996), sums up the evidence for each of the main candidates and is led towards certain conclusions.

13 November
Professor Sandra Schruijer
‘Fighting over Shakespeare’s Authorship: Identity, Power & Academic Debate’


In this talk Professor Schruijer of the University of Utrecht will adopt a psychological perspective in trying to understand the Shakespeare Authorship Debate, especially its fierce and destructive nature. Relevant psychological perspectives will be employed in order to characterize the debate (or conflict), which deal with the importance of the protagonists' various social identities and their different power positions.

20 November
Hank Whittemore
‘Shake-speare’s Treason’


Author-actor Hank Whittemore performs his 90-minute one-man show based on his scholarly edition of the Sonnets entitled ‘The Monument’ (2005), demonstrating "the first comprehensive and coherent explanation" of the 154 verses printed in 1609. In his performance, Whittemore brings alive the sonnet sequence as "a barely concealed diary" of events from the Essex Rebellion of 1601 to the death of Elizabeth I and the succession of King James in 1603.

27 November
Dominic Dromgoole
‘Will, the Question and Me’

Dominic Dromgoole, Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe and author of ‘Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life’ (2006), talks to Dr. William Leahy of Brunel University about his views of Shakespeare the man and writer, Stratford and the Globe, academia's approach to the Bard, and his perspective on the Authorship Question.


Shakespeare' s Globe, Bankside, London SE1

Thursday 6, 13, 20, 27 November 2008

All Programmes begin at 7:30pm

£10 per lecture, £18 for two, £27 for three, £35 for all four

To include a gl ass of wine.

Tickets: Globe Theatre Box Office – 0207 401 9919

www.shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org.uk

New Book

The Earl of Oxford and the Making of “Shakespeare”: The Literary Life of Edward De Vere in Context
by Richard Malim

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'Anonymous'
film release

A major cinema release about Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford as the true author of the plays of William Shakespeare will certainly raise the profile of the Authorship Question.

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Book Review
Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom:
The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth.
By Charles Beauclerk

Reviewed by
Christopher Paul

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