LECTURE TOPICS & PDFS FOR THE ROUNDTABLE  (1985 – 2015)

Mark Mendizza A Review of Ted Hughes' "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being"  

Claudia Thompson & Bruce Thompson Shakespeare on the Orient Express

Bonner Miller Cutting Lady Anne Clifford & the Appleby Triptych: A Countess Transformed: How Lady Susan Vere Became Lady Anne Clifford 

Sally Mosher English Music in the 16th Century: Court & Countryside

Earl Showerman Shakespeare's Much Ado's: Alcestis, Hercules, & Love's Labour's Wonne

 

Roger Stritmatter Shakespeare and de Vere’s Geneva Bible - O Brave New World: The Tempest & Peter Martyr's De Orbe Novo" [Strittmatter & Kositsky]

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Charles Beauclerk The Earl of Buford: Why the 17th Earl of Oxford is the Real Shakespeare & The Psychology of King Lear 

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Alex Ayres Wit & Wisdom of Shakespeare—aka Marlowe

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Julia Jones The Brave New World of Giordano Bruno

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Sabrina Feldman Swallow and The Crow: The Case for Sackville as Shakespeare

 

Louis Ule  The Shakespeare Apocrypha

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Ib Melchior The Tombstone Cipher

Irvin Leigh Matus Shakespeare in Fact—the Stratford Man
 

Peter Dawkins The Shakespeare Spear Shakers: Franchis Bacon and his Pens

 

Dr. Steve Sohmer  Julius Caesar & The Julian Calendar

 

Hank Whittemore The Monumental Story of the Sonnets

 

Professor Stephan May The Courtier Poets: Dyer, Essex, de Vere

 

Robin Williams Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?

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Professor Gary Taylor The First Folio & Booksellers

Mark Rylance Backstage discussion on Measure for Measure

Tom & Jean Seehof Undressing Shakespeare (Elizabethan dress)

Charles Marowitz Recycling Shakespeare for the Contemporary Theater

Elliot Baker In Defense of Delia Bacon

Susan Naulty Edward de Vere Documents at the Huntington Library

Diana Price Elizabethan Men of Letters - Is Shakespeare the Odd Man Out?

Professor Alan Nelson Cambridge and Oxford, University Wits

Richard Paul Roe Shakespeare’s Italian Itinerary

Ruth Loyd Miller William Cecil and Royal Wardship

Terry Ross Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst—the Other Earl as Shakespeare
   
Professor Ward Elliott Claremont Computer Clinic: Stylometric Studies

Betty Talvacchia (Getty Center) Giulio Romano—Shakespeare’s Sculptor
   
Jane Roe Life of John Lyly

Louis Fantasia Reconstructing the Globe with Sam Wanamaker