Shakespeare Authorship Conference 2006

About a year ago we ventured down the proverbial rabbit hole of "The Authorship Question." What's the question," you ask? "Of course William Shakespeare (a.k.a. Shaksper, Shaxper, Shagsper, etc.,) from Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays that have come to be known as the greatest literary accomplishment of all time... Right?" Well, maybe, but the evidence sure doesn't support the notion very well. Even Mark Twain (as well as many other noteworthy people) wrote about the absurdity of believing that The Stratford Man wrote the illustrious works, citing an extensive list of reasons for this position. (i.e., There are no known manuscripts with his name attributed to them - quite unheard of even back then. )


Thus, we found ourselves wanting to attend a conference where we could confer with "Oxfordians" and possibly have a bit more light shed on the subject... And, since we are book dealers, and do have about 800 Shakespeare-related books, we thought "why not sell books there as well?" So, we packed it all up & shipped ourselves off to Ann Arbor MI , where we were so graciously received (& rewarded) by all present.

We also attended The Tempest with The Royal Shakespeare Company (and Patrick Stewart as Prospero) which had a very unusual (and somewhat modernized) production. When I met Mr. Stewart he told me that I would probably never see another production like it, and I would tend to believe him. (Btw, he's been performing with the RSC since 1958.) In any case, he was as wonderful in person as he was on the stage, which, in my humble opinion, was outrageously spectacular in every way.



http://www.shakespearebyanothername.com
http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/
http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/
http://www.deverestudies.org/index.cfm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7004942638729319523&q=is+shakespeare+dead
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