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Another Hamlet
by Charles Boyle
$15.00 (paperback, 2011)

In Another Hamlet (which includes both his original 30-page 1993 essay and the original screenplay based upon it) Charles Boyle has produced a riveting political thriller that explores the life and tragic death of actor and film-maker, Leslie Howard, a British patriot drawn into a deadly propaganda duel with the Germans. Deftly interweaving the behind-the-scenes politics of World War II with the decadent showbiz world of the 1930s-1940s, Boyle makes the tantalizing suggestion that it was Howard's growing conviction that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare which sealed his doom. From Leslie Howard himself to Humphrey Bogart, Merle Oberon, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Joseph Goebbels, Boyle brings to life a fascinating and often chilling cast of characters to tell the story of a maverick artist's losing battle with the power-brokers of his age. -- Charles Beauclerk, author of Nell Gwynn and Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom.

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom
by Charles Beauclerk
$15.00 (hardcover, 2010)

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of English literature. Who was the man behind Hamlet, King Lear, and the sonnets? In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an enchanting feat, humanizing the bard who for centuries has remained beyond our grasp. Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and he convincingly argues that if the plays and poems of “Shake-speare” were discovered today, we would see them for what they are—shocking political works written by a court insider, someone whose status and anonymity shielded him from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation. But the author’s unique status and identity were swept under the rug after his death. The official history—of an uneducated Stratfordian merchant writing in obscurity and of a virginal queen married to her country—dominated for centuries. Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as into the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” You’ll never look at Shakespeare the same way again.

Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose
by Elisabeth Sears
$15.00 (paperback, 2003)

This small but learned volume presents a strong case that Edward and Elizabeth I, the Tudor Rose, were married and had a son together, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton.

"This book is a brilliant achievement, a landmark in the effort to understand the mysteries of William Shakespeare," writes Hank Whittemore in the Introduction. Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose
presents a fascinating and tragic history
in convincing fashion.

The Anglican Shakespeare
by Daniel Wright
$15.00 (paperback, 1993)

The Anglican Shakespeare is Concordia University professor Daniel Wright's demonstration of the Protestant stance of the writer who called himself Shakespeare --- a stance that made Shakespeare, through the history plays, an invaluable Reformation apologist, historical revisionist, and propagandist for the Crown.

An original April 1999 issue of Harper's,
which includes the 27-page landmark
"The Ghost of Shakespeare :
who, in fact, was the real Bard?"
$15.00

The 27-page Shakespeare Authorship article in this issue features essays from Statfordians Harold Bloom, Marjorie Garber, Gail Kern Paster, Jonathan Bate and Irv Matus, and Oxfordians Joseph Sobran, Richard Whalen, Mark Anderson, Daniel Wright and Tom Bethell.

Shake-speare's "Phoenix and Turtle" : an interpretation by William Plumer Fowler,
with an exegesis by Dorothy Ogburn
$10.00 (Paperback, 1986)

A little-known but important set of essays by William Plumer Fowler and Dorothy Ogburn. In both essays the authors explicate the enigmatic Shakespeare poem "Phoenix and Turtle" (published in 1601) from the point of view that the "Phoenix" is Elizabeth, "Oxford/Shakespeare" is the Turtle, and "Rarity" is the 3rd Earl of Southampton. The context within which they frame their explications is the Essex Rebellion and the struggle for the succession after Elizabeth is gone.

"Leaving no posterity
'Twas not their infirmity
It was married chastity."

Obituary for J. Thomas Looney,
as it appeared in the April 1944 issue of
The Shakespeare Fellowship Quarterly
$15.00
ONLY FIVE AVAILABLE

This is a 25th Anniversary facsimile reprint of the entire April 1944 issue, including saddle- stitch stapling in the middle. The issue is 15 pages long; the obit is 7 pages, beginning on page one. The issue also includes articles by Charles Wisner Barrell (4 pages) and Eva Turner Clark (2 pages).

"Friends of the Oxford Library" Tote Bag
$10.00

These are handsome, canvas bags, available in three colors (black, blue, or red). Pack 'em with books. If you don't have enough books, buy some here!

The guidebook and postcards are the ones that were available to visitors to Castle Hedingham in the 1990s. They were acquired by a visitor then, left with us, and have been sitting in a box ever since. Beautiful, rich photos on every page of the 16-page guidebook, along with brief histories of the Oxford line and Castle Hedingham. The postcards are 1) the Castle itself on a bright, sunny day (with the flag unfurled), and 2) the great Banqueting Hall inside.

This is one of the earliest known pamphlets from Charlton Ogburn, Jr., written just two years after he and his mother co-wrote and published Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Name in 1962. It is 38 pages long. We have two "very good" condition copies for sale.

Shakespeare's Farewell (1951)
by Gwynneth Bowen
$15.00
ONLY ONE AVAILABLE

This is a very small little pamphlet (4.5 x 7 inches, 20 pages) published by the author in 1951. It contains a paper entitled, "The Date and Authorship of The Tempest," which was presented at a meeting of the Shakespeare Fellowhip in London on February 3rd, 1951.

Shakespeare : Reading and Talking (1980)
by Charles Van Doren
$15.00
ONLY THREE AVAILABLE

During the late 1970s Charles Van Doren became interested in the Shakespeare authorship question, and presented his thoughts at a weekend seminar at the Spring Hill Center (Wayzata, Minnesota) in conjunction with such luminaries as Mortimer Adler. Van Doren thanks Ruth Loyd Miller for her assistance in preparing his remarks for publication. A fascinating look at the authorship debate during the quieter days of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Shakespearean Authorship Review
no. 14 (autumn 1965)
$15.00
ONLY TWO AVAILABLE

Includes articles by Gwynneth Bowen on "Hackney, Harsnett and the Devil in King
Lear," H.W. Patience on "Topical Allusions in King John," and R.M.D. Wainewright on the S.A.S. Library.

Also includes book reviews, news notes and letters.

Incudes articles by Gwynneth Bowen on "Touching the Affray at the Blackfriars," and by Dorothy Ogburn on "The Authorship of The True Tragedie of Edward the Second."

Also includes book reviews, news notes and letters.

Includes articles by Gwynneth Bowen on, "Purloined Plumes," by Francis Edwards on "The Earl of Oxford's Escape Plot," and by H.W. Patience on "Oxfordian Echoes."

Also includes book reviews, news notes and letters.