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Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) i Copyright 2011, 2012 The Shakespeare Fellowship Designed in Baltimore, MD. Online ISSN: 2157-6793 Print ISSN: 2157-6785 o This 2011 volume III of Brief Chronicles was, like the previous two issues, set in Chap- paral Pro. Our ornament selection continues to be inspired not only by early modern semiotics, but by the generosity of contemporary designers, such as Rob Anderson, who designed the Flight of the Dragon Celtic Knot Caps which contribute so much to our leading paragraphs. T. Olsson’s 1993 Ornament Scrolls, available for free download from typOasis, have once again furnished an inviting opportunity to apply some of the theoretical principles discussed by our more disting- uished con- tributors. Shakespeare we must be silent inour praise Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) ii In memoriam, C.O., Jr. Who led the way.... against many impediments. eo wisheth all honor Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) iii General Editor: Roger Stritmatter, PhD Managing Editor: Gary Goldstein Editorial Board: Carole Chaski, PhD, Institute for Linguistic Evidence, United States Michael Delahoyde, PhD, Washington State University, United States Ren Draya, PhD, Blackburn College, United States Sky Gilbert, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada Geoffrey M. Hodgson, PhD, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Mike Hyde, PhD, English, Tufts University, United States Felicia Hardison Londré, PhD, University of Missouri, Kansas City, United States Donald Ostrowski, PhD, Harvard University, United States Tom Regnier, JD, LLM, University of Miami School of Law, United States Sarah Smith, PhD, Harvard University, United States Richard Waugaman, MD, Georgetown University of Medicine and Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, United States Copy Editor: Alex McNeil Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) iv Volume III (2011-12) Table of Contents Editor’s Greeting Roger Stritmatter viii-xv Articles From the Foreword to This Star of England C. O., Jr. 1-8 Veering Toward an Evolutionary Realignment of Freud’s Hamlet Michael Wainwright 9-36 Shakespeare’s Greater Greek: Macbeth and Aeschylus’Oresteia Earl Showerman 37-70 Commedia dell’arte in Othello: A Satiric Comedy Ending in Tragedy Richard Whalen 71-106 The Law inHamlet : Death, Property, and the Pursuit of Justice Thomas Regnier 107-132 On the Authorship of Willobie His Avisa Robert R. Prechter, Jr. 133-166 She Will Not Be a Mother: Evaluating the Seymour Prince Tudor Hypothesis Bonner Miller Cutting 167-196 Shakespeare’s Antagonistic Disposition: A Personality Trait Approach Andrew Crider 197-208 The Sternhold and HopkinsWhole Booke of Psalms: Crucial Evidence of Edward de Vere’s Authorship of the Works of Shakespeare Richard Waugaman 209-230 Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) v Reviews and Interviews Shakespeare Suppressed reviewed by William Ray 231-240 Dating Shakespeare’s Plays: A Critical Review of the Evidence reviewed by Don Ostrowski 241-252 The Assassination of Shakespeare’s Patron: Investigating the Death of the Fifth Earl of Derby reviewed by Peter Dickson 253-258 Gary Goldstein interviews Leo Daugherty 259-263 Shakespeare The Concealed Poet reviewed by Bonner Cutting 267-269 Theater Of Envy: William Shakespeare reviewed by Heward Wilkinson 270-272 The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard’s Unknown Travels reviewed by Virginia Renner 273-278 Bardgate: Shake-speare and the Royalists Who Stole the Bard reviewed by Gary Goldstein 279-281 Anonymous reviewed by Sky Gilbert 282-287 Dialogue/Debate Kreiler and Prechter on Hundredth Sundrie Flowres 288-3o8 Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) vi Contributor Biographies Andrew Crider is professor emeritus of psychology at Williams College. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and has written and consulted extensively in the areas of psychopathology, psychophysiology, and behavioral medicine. His article represents an initial venture into questions of Shakespeare psychobiography. Bonner Miller Cutting, a Trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship, has presented pa- pers at several authorship conferences and is working to expand the paper “Shake- speare’s Will Considered Too Curiously” into a book. Ms. Cutting holds a BFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an MA in music from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. Robert R. Prechter, Jr., is president of Elliott Wave International, a financial forecasting firm. He and colleague Dr. Wayne Parker presented a new theory of finance in “The Financial/Economic Dichotomy: The Socionomic Perspective,” published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Prechter also funds the Socionomics Foundation, which supports academic research in the field. See www. elliottwave.com, www.socionomics.net and www.socionomics.org. Thomas Regnier is an attorney based in Miami, Florida. He holds law degrees from Columbia Law School in New York (LlM) and the University of Miami School of Law (JD), both with honors. He has clerked for Judge Harry Leinenweber in the U.S. District Court in Chicago and for Judge Melvia Green in the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida. He has taught at the University of Miami School of Law (including a course on Shakespeare and the Law) and The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His scholarly articles on the law have appeared in such publications as NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Santa Clara Law Review, Akron Law Review, and UMKC Law Review. Earl Showerman graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School, has been a patron of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 1974, and reads at the Hannon Library of Southern Oregon University in pursuit of the Shake- speare authorship question. He has served as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship and The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition. Since 2005 he has presented and pub- lished a series of papers on the topic of Shakespeare’s “greater Greek,” explicating the Greek dramatic sources in Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Much Ado about Nothing, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida and the Tudor interlude, Horestes. Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) vii Michael Wainwright studied for his BA in English and Mathematics at Kingston University and gained his MA in Modernism and Modern Writers from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he also completed his PhD as a scholarship winner. He has taught literary theory from Plato to Butler at Lancaster University and courses dedicated to twentieth-century American literature at the University of London, Staffordshire University, and the University of Birmingham. Twice winner of the Faulkner Conference “Call for Papers,” his publications include three monographs for Palgrave Macmillan: Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels: Evolution and Southern Fiction (2008), Faulkner’s Gambit: Chess and Literature (2011), and the forthcoming Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature (2012). Richard Waugaman is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, a Training Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a recognized expert on multiple personality disorder. He is a regular reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and has written extensively on Shakespeare, the psychology of anonymity, and the case for Oxford’s authorship of the Shakespearean canon. Richard Whalen is co-editor with Ren Draya of Blackburn College of Othello in the Oxfordian Shakespeare Series. He is co-general editor of the series with Daniel Wright of Concordia University and the author of Shakespeare Who Was He? The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon (Greenwood-Praeger, 1994). d Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) viii To Whom it May Concern: Greetings Great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. —Helena, All’s Well that Ends Well his third issue of Brief Chronicles goes to the electronic press at a watershed moment in authorship studies. The “seismic transformation in public awareness”1 recently predicted by Shakespeare Fellowship President Earl TShowerman is well underway. Stimulated not only by the massive exposure to the Oxford case brought on by Anonymous and at least two about-to-be released independent documentaries, the shift is also being enabled by the vigorous development of new organs of scholarship and communication such as Brief Chronicles, and am entire spectrum of new authorship blogs. Given the intellectual inertia (or worse) involved in the authorship question, it would be rash to predict an optimistic timetable for the Oxford revolution – but there is no doubt that the “handwriting is on the wall” as never before. New books on the authorship question, most of them by a new generation of talented and dedicated Oxfordians, continue to expand our intellectual horizons and inject both sense and sensibility into the study of the English literary renaissance. Check out the reviews in this issue if you don’t believe me. The editor could not stop them. As Ben Jonson said of the bard, “sufflimandus erat.” They just kept coming. How else can one explain the extraordinary new energy that has been injected into the authorship debate by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s sponsorship of the new “Sixty Minutes with Shakespeare” attempt to rebut the anti-Stratfordian case? Released two full months before Anonymous, the online program prominently features such paragons of scholarship as the Prince of Wales, speaking out on behalf of the Birthplace on topics such as “Gaps in the record,” “Where did Shakespeare get his money?” or “Why aren’t their any books in the Shakespeare Will?” Despite enlisting sixty experts, the Trust apparently could not find anyone to address the topic of connections between the plays and the Earl of Oxford’s life, although the ubiquitous Professor Alan Nelson did weigh in on “Factual objections to Oxford” as the author. Brief Chronicles Vol. III (2011) ix The Trust has yet to learn the importance of Richard Feynman’s first principle of inquiry: you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.