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De Vere Society
Autumn Meeting - Saturday 3 October, 2009

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

Schedule
10.00 Meet & register, tea / coffee
12.45 Lunch
3.00 Sale of books
3.30 Tea / Coffee / Wine

5.00 Close

Programme will include:
• Kevin Gilvary on editing the dating project

Eddi Jolly on Dating The Winter's Tale
Patrick O'Brien on Shakespeare and Cambridge
Elizabeth Imlay on DVS publications
John Rollett on Doubts about de Vere

Booking

Attendance costs £20 per person including lunch.
To reserve a place at the meeting please supply the following information, and return
to the address below with your cheque:

Name of member(s)
Number of places wanted
Contact telephone number

Please make all cheques payable to ‘De Vere Society’ and post to:

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

How to get there
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By Underground (London Transport)
Take the Metropolitan Line from Baker Street westbound to Uxbridge station. Then take a taxi (to Cleveland Rd), or a bus (see below) or walk 1 mile.
By Bus From Uxbridge underground station: U3 (alight Cleveland Road), or U1 or U4 or U7 (alight Kingston Lane).

Bus From Heathrow Central
A10 Heathrow Fast, to Uxbridge every 15 minutes, journey time approximately 25 minutes (alight The Greenway).

By Rail from West Drayton
First Great Western Link, the nearest main-line station approx. 1.5 miles from the campus. Services run to/from London Paddington (approx journey length: 20 mins) or the West (Bristol). From West Drayton station take a bus U3 towards Uxbridge (alight Cleveland Road).

By Car
M4 From West and South West Leave M4 at Junction 4 and follow signs to Uxbridge (A408). Straight across first set of traffic lights, continue on A408, crossing four roundabouts. Turn right at the next set of major traffic lights. At next lights, turn right into Station Rd, then into Church Road and left into Kingston Road. Access (controlled by barrier) only from Kingston Road. Pay-and-display parking is available near Reception.

By Car from North
M25, then M40 East which becomes A40. Leave at next roundabout, Take B483 exit to Uxbridge. Follow signs across two mini-roundabouts. At major roundabout bear left onto A4020 (Brunel sign), straight ahead at the first lights, then almost immediately take second right filter turn onto Kingston Lane (signposted Brunel).

Go through barrier as you enter the campus and follow signs for Main Reception. The Hamilton Centre is central and signposted

 


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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