Shakespeare Authorship Book Club with Michael Delahoyde

By The Book, SAR’s international book club, finished it’s second selection, 12th Night, An Oxfordian Edition recently. We met 6 times online. The first 5 times were to read aloud together one act of the play. (There are 5 acts)  The last time we met was for our formal book club meeting with Michael Delahoyde, the editor of our book selection.

The read alouds were a blast. It was great to hear the play with individual voices and tripping along at a conversational pace. The play came to life.

The conversations after the read alouds and during the club meeting were varied and fun with great participation. Sometimes we would go down a rabbit hole and start looking things up. Some of the more obscure topics that surfaced included “railing”, “Giordano Bruno”, and epiphany. I guess you had to be there.

And you can be there!  

For our next book selection we will be reading Necessary Mischief by Bonner Miller Cutting and Bonner has agreed to join us for the final club meeting, Saturday June 25, 2022 at 10 AM PDT.

Our first meeting will be in April. Buy the book now so you can participate.

To sign up for this free book club, send us a note at shakespeareauthorshipdotorg@gmail.com.

George Peele, Robert Prechter and Shakespeare

We are excited to welcome Robert Prechter as our May 14 speaker for the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable. Mr. Prechter is known for his work in financial prediction using the Elliott Wave Theory, but that will not be the subject of his May talk.

Robert Prechter

“Who Wrote George Peele’s ‘Only Extant Letter’?” is the subject that interests Mr. Prechter immensely. We can’t wait to find out why and also to examine in more detail this personal correspondence to discover clues that relate to the authorship question. George Peele was the 9th Earl of Northumberland and one of the University Wits; a writer associated with Shakespeare.

George Peele is one of many topics in Robert Prechter’s new 24 volume digital book called Shakespeare’s Voices which proposes that many publications from the era were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, under other people’s names.

Additional reading on the subject of George Peele and Renaissance Drama can be found in, The Predecessors of Shakespeare: A Survey and Bibliography, Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. (1973)

For more information on the life and work of George Peele, take a look at the recent book by David Bevington called George Peele (2017)

TO ATTEND THIS EVENT: Please email us for the Zoom link at shakespeareauthorshipdotorg@gmail.com

George Peele (1556-1596)

Alchemy and Metaphysics in Shakespeare’s Time

Below is Julia Cleave’s talk on Alchemy. You can also watch Marty Hyatt discuss metaphysical themes in the Sonnets and Lisa Wolpe discuss the Alchemy of Gender as well as perform.

Our September 25th Fundraiser and Season Opener was a wonderful Zoom event. We had 3 brilliant speakers and a lively and learned hostess in Gerit Quealy, author of Botanical Shakespeare.

Thank you to all our speakers and supporters for making the event a success with regards to the continued exploration of the Shakespeare Authorship question. Above all, we gained a new appreciation for the thematic complexity of the works with regard to spirituality.