Author: Hope Welborn

I long considered the question of how many people of the day knew about Oxford’s Voices. Was it just a few members of the elite, or nearly everyone? On that subject, I added four paragraphs to “Those Who Knew.” To read them, just search on:

For years, I wondered

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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My 50-minute talk titled “Who Were the True Pioneering Women Writers in English?” has just been posted by the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable. I am grateful to the SAR for hosting the presentation and to Rima Lyn for tight video editing. I think this topic is fresh, important and overlooked. Only the perspective of Oxford’s Voices makes such authorship explorations possible. This link will take you to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1jYXzQIGuE. Thank you, as always, for your support.

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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There is a new chapter in Oxford’s Voices on a minor, unpublished Voice. This brings the total of Voices up to 153.

Just search on ^Wilfride Samonde.

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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One of the remaining authorship mysteries was who wrote the dedicatory sonnet that prefaces the publication of the play, The Tragedie of Mariam (1613), supposedly written by “E.C.” After digging deeper, I think I figured it out.

To read the whole chapter, search on ^E.C. (Elizabeth Tanfield Cary).

If you know the chapter but want to read only the new sections, search on ^Davies’ Curious Dedication of 1612 and Its Relationship to E.C.’s Sonnet, and continue reading through A Tidy Scenario.

This is one of the more speculative discussions, but it’s a fun exploration. I am left with three uncertainties about specifics, which maybe you can answer!

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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I figured out something interesting about the unlikely existence of any Thomas Nayshe of Lowestoft and about Nashe’s notes in the margins of two books. Search on: Interim Summary and ^11. Names and Notes Written into Two Books, which will take you straight to these two new thoughts.

There is also a brief new section in the Ben Jonson chapter. Search on “On Poet-Ape”, which some people think is about Will Shaksper.

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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This Saturday, January 25, at 3pm Eastern, we will be live-streaming the Oxford’s Voices Theater Festival on Phoebe Nir’s YouTube channel @phoebe_devere

For info and reminders, click on this rsvp link: https://partiful.com/e/PMYIbPrCj93ccjzW6Hhr

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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‘The God of Love,’ of which a few lines are sung in Much Ado About Nothing, has been improperly attributed to “W E”, meaning William Elderton. I recently discovered that the first full verse is available in a harp songbook, which got the lyric from a manuscript held at Yale University. It is just enough text to confirm the lyric for Oxford. The music has long been available in a lute book compiled c. 1560-85 by Francis Willoughby. His name is featured in an acrostic within Robert Parry’s Sinetes Passions. So, Oxford knew Willoughby, who had the sheet music to one of Oxford’s songs. I have added observations in the W.E. (William Elderton) and Robert Parry chapters. Just search on “Francis Willoughby”.

Phoebe Nir and I recently did an hourlong Q&A on the Songwriter Voices. It is a fun condensation of the case that dozens of Oxford’s songs were published between 1587 and 1603. I will let you know when it’s posted.

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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In case you missed it, this video from 2023 was the precursor to the article on Thomas Nashe published this year in The Oxfordian:

Speech video: Prechter, Robert, “Thomas Nashe: Person or Persona?” Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable, May 6, 2023

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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Nobody named John Doleta existed in England in the 1580s. But someone wrote a pamphlet purporting to describe the astrological predictions of someone by that name. What is the real story? You can read about it here:

“Identifying John Doleta”

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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This week we have a link to my speech on the authorship of the Christopher Marlowe canon, delivered at the Shakespeare-Oxford Fellowship’s conference in Denver, Colorado on September 29. Marlowe was independent while he was alive, but did anything suspicious happen after he died? Find out!

“What Pieces, If Any, Did the Earl of Oxford Contribute to the Christopher Marlowe Canon?”

More to come!

Robert Prechter
www.oxfordsvoices.com 

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