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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 Prechterwww.oxfordsvoices.com  P.S.

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…

There is a new chapter in Oxford’s Voices on a minor, unpublished Voice.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 Prechterwww.oxfordsvoices.com  P.S.

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…

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…

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 Prechterwww.oxfordsvoices.com  P.S.

‘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…

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 Prechterwww.oxfordsvoices.com  P.S.

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 Prechterwww.oxfordsvoices.com  P.S.

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…