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Brief Chronicles V (2014) i Brief Chronicles V (2014) ii e Copyright 2014 The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Designed in Baltimore, MD. Online ISSN: 2157-6793 Print ISSN: 2157-6785 o In keeping with our tradition, this 2014 volume V of Brief Chronicles was set in Chaparral 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 that contribute so much to our leading paragraphs. T. Olsson’s 1993 Ornament Scrolls, available for free download from typOasis, continue to furnish an appealing invitation to apply some of the theoretical principles discussed by our more disting- uished con- tributors. WilliamW howmany numbe rs is in nounsW WmW TwoW QuickW TrulyW I thought there had been one number moreW because the y sayW WWOdWs nounsWW EvansW Peace your tattlingsW What is WfairWW William IWll tell you one thing that ainWt fairW bgan WEgglintonWWW Brief Chronicles V (2014) iii General Editor: Roger Stritmatter, PhD Managing Editor: Michael Delahoyde, PhD Editorial Board: Carole Chaski, PhD, Institute for Linguistic Evidence Michael Delahoyde, PhD, Washington State University Ren Draya, PhD, Blackburn College Sky Gilbert, PhD, University of Guelph, Canada Geoffrey M. Hodgson, PhD, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Mike Hyde, PhD, English, Tufts University Felicia Hardison Londré, PhD, University of Missouri, Kansas City Donald Ostrowski, PhD, Harvard University Tom Regnier, JD, LLM, University of Miami School of Law Don Rubin, PhD, York University Sarah Smith, PhD, Harvard University Richard Waugaman, MD, Georgetown University of Medicine and Washington Psychoanalytic Institute Copy Editor: Alex McNeil, JD, Boston College Brief Chronicles V (2014) iv Contributor Biographies Michael Delahoyde is a Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Chaucer, dinosaur films, children’s toys, and meat ads, and has been consulted and interviewed by produc- ers at the Discovery Channel and Cinema Secrets, and by various magazines. He is a former senior editor of the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, the journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and now serves as the managing editor of Brief Chronicles. His “Edward de Vere’s Hand in Titus Andron- icus” appeared in the premiere 2009 volume of Brief Chronicles. Michael Dudley, who holds Master’s Degrees in both Library and Information Stud- ies and City Planning, is the history, politics and Indigenous Studies Librarian at the University of Winnipeg. He is the editor of the book Public Libraries and Resilient Cit- ies (2013) and served for three years as the Editorial Chair of Plan Canada magazine. This is his first publication in Brief Chronicles. Sky Gilbert is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph and holds the University Research Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies. He is also a fel- low at the University of Toronto’s Sexual Diversity Studies Program. He received his PhD from the Centre for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto and is the recipient of two SSRC grants, as well as the Robert Lawrence prize for an emerging scholar. His critical response papers have been published in several academic journals — peer reviewed and not, including, in addition to Brief Chronicles, the Canadian Journal of Practice-based Research in Theatre, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, and the Canadian Theatre Review.The author of seven novels, sever- al books of poetry, a memoir, and several books of plays, from 1979 to 1997 Gilbert was the founding artistic director of the Toronto Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, one of the world’s foremost gay and lesbian theaters. Jacob Hughes PhD, graduated in English Literature at Washington State Univer- sity in May 2014. He teaches early English literature, Shakespeare, and composition courses at Washington State University’s campus in Richland. He has also taught courses on medieval and renaissance humanities and digital diversity. Hughes’s dis- sertation, titled “Shakespeare’s Chaucerian Entertainers,” focuses on how Chaucer not only informed some of Shakespeare’s key characters, such as Falstaff, but also Brief Chronicles V (2014) v how the poet influenced the playwright’s views on dramaturgy. He has published articles on English pedagogy, digital humanities, and several book reviews. Between 2009 and 2013, he was the managing editor of the Rocky Mountain Review of Lan- guage and Literature. Felicia Hardison Londré is Curators’ Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She specializes in 19th and 20th-century American, French, and Russian theater history, as well as in Shakespearean dramaturgy. Londré’s published work includes over 60 scholarly articles, 25 journalistic publications, 100 book and theatre reviews, and 14 books. The Honorary Co-Founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, she was Founding Secretary of the Shakespeare Theater Association of America, and is a recognized Oxfordian scholar in the field of Shakespearean authorship. Londré is also an expert on Kansas City theater his- tory, and has been involved in various attempts to preserve historic performing arts buildings throughout the city. Alex McNeil holds a BA from Yale University and a JD, cum laude, from Boston Col- lege Law School. His professional career was in public service, where he served for 37 years as Court Administrator of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He became inter- ested in the Shakespeare authorship question in 1992 and was a founding trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship in 2001. He currently serves as editor of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter, published quarterly by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. His reference book on American television programming, Total Television, was published by Penguin Books in four editions between 1980 and 1996. Currently, he is the Fri- day host of “Lost and Found” on WMBR-FM in Cambridge, MA (wmbr.org), a show which features music of the 1960s and 1970s. Stuart John Nettleton holds a M.Eng.Sci., an M.B.A., and a PhD in Infrastructure Economics. Nettleton actively applies his benchmarking computable general equi- librium model, the Spatial Climate Economic Policy Tool for Regional Equilibria, in large scale multiregional, intertemporal industry development research. He is a keen mathematician using Bayesian statistical analysis and probabilistic graphical model selection for data mining in economic, engineering pedagogy and social network research, and has been intrigued by the Shakespeare authorship question for more than two decades. 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 Brief Chronicles V (2014) vi Law Review. Don Rubin is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University in Toronto. Founding director of York’s Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance Studies (MA and PhD), he is the Series Editor of Routledge’s six volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and was the Founding Editor of Canada’s national theater quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review. He is President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association and a member of the editorial board of the webjournal Critical Stages. Professor Rubin was coordinator of the 2013 Joint Conference of the Shakespeare Fellowhip and the Shakespeare Oxford Society in Toronto, and is a former trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship. 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 Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature (2012). Wainwright’s previous essay,“Veering Toward an Evolutionary Realignment of Freud’s Hamlet,” appeared in Brief Chronicles III (2011-2012) before being reprinted by Palgrave. 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. Hanno Wember has taught math