Exploring the evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

2014 Madison Conference Agenda

The 2014 Shakespeare Authorship Conference will take place September 11-14 at the Overture Center in Madison, WI. Conference abstracts can be found here.

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 11 September

12:00 – 1:15    Registration

1:15 – 1:30      Welcome – Opening of Conference & Review of Agenda

1:30 – 2:30     Shelly Maycock – Grafting Texts to Create New Strains: Jonson’s Intertextual connections between the Encomium to the First Folio and Shakespeare’s Richard III as rhetorical keys to concealed authorship

2:30 – 3:30     Julie Bianchi – Untangling Elizabethan Roots: A genealogical approach to the authorship question

3:30 – 3:45     Coffee break

3:45 – 4:45     James Norwood – Mark Twain and Shake-Speare: Soul Mates

4:45 – 5:00     Linda Theil – Looney “Shakespeare Identified” Centennial Brainstorm

5:00 – 5:10     Announcements


Friday, 12 September

8:30 – 9:15       W. Ron Hess – Did Oxford Use A Secretary Hand As Well As His Italic Hand? Could Oxford have perpetrated a documentary hoax on Shakspere?

9:15 – 10:00    Heward Wilkinson (England) – “If this be error and upon me proved”: ‘Deceptive Displacements’ and the Shakespeare Authorship Question.

10:00 – 10:15   Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:00    Don Rubin – Sisyphus and the Globe: Turning (on) the Media

11:00 – 11:30    John Shahan – Update on the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition

11:30 – 12:15    Alexander Waugh – Three Words to Think About

Buffet Lunch

1:00 – 1:50       Hanno Wember – Paper by Robert Detobel: Idle Hours

1:50 – 2:45       Ramon Jimenez – Six Characters in Search of an Author

2:45 – 3:00      Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:00      Bonner Cutting – Evermore in Subjection: Wardship in Early Modern England and its Impact on Edward de Vere.

4:00 – 5:00      Roger Stritmatter – By the Numbers: Palladis Tamia and the Shakespearean Question

Evening:         Cheryl Eagan-Donovan: Film – Premier screening Nothing is Truer Than Truth


Saturday, 13 September

8:30 – 9:45      Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship

9:45 – 10:00    Coffee Break

10:00 – 10:45   Walter Hurst – Sabbioneta, Italy, An Intersection of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Edward de Vere?

10:45 – 11:30    Michael Delahoyde – Oxford’s Early Errors

11:30 – 12:15    Earl Showerman – Much Ado about Hercules’ Labors of Love

Lunch on your own

1:30 – 2:15       Alexander Waugh – Sweet Swan

2:15 – 3:00      James Warren – The Use of State Power in the Effort to Hide Edward de Vere’s Authorship of the Works Attributed to “William Shake-speare”

3:00 – 3:45      Newton Frohlich – The Shakespeare Mask

Evening Event – Separate Reservation required

4:00 p.m.        Bus leaves for APT in Spring Green for Much Ado about Nothing. Dinner and Play are included.

10:45 p.m.      Bus returns to Madison (arrives about midnight)


Sunday, 14 September

8:30 – 9:30      Linda Theil – Panel – “Every Power That Moves”: Using Mobile Tech to Advance SOF Goals

9:30 – 10:15     James McGrath – Shakespeare’s Numbers: English Metrical Verse and How It Is Spoken on Stage

10:15 – 10:30   Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:15    Ron Halstead – What’s Hecuba to Him? Connecting Life and Drama in Hamlet

11:15 – 12:00     Tom Regnier – Hamlet and the Law of Homicide: The Life of the Mind in Law and Art

12:00 – 12:15     Break

12:15 – 2:15       Closing Banquet with Keynote. Awards and Final words.

                    Hank Whittemore: 100 Reasons for Oxford’s Authorship of Shakespeare’s Works

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