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The Oxfordian The Oxfordian Volume 17 September 2015 ISSN 1521-3641 The OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 The Oxfordian is an annual journal dedicated to publishing scholar- ship and informed opinion relating to the authorship and production of important literary works in Early Modern English. It is a publica- tion of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Writers interested in being published in The Oxfordian should review our publication guidelines at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellow- ship website: http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/the-oxfordian/ Our postal mailing address is: The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship P.O. Box 66083 Auburndale, Massachusetts USA 02466 Queries may be directed to the editor, Chris Pannell at [email protected] Back issues of The Oxfordian may be obtained by writing to [email protected] Cover Photograph: Janice Jackson Our front cover is a detail of the Norman Great West Door of Rochester Cathedral in Kent, England. The selection of the door-and-key motif for this issue was prompt- ed by a statement by Charles Beauclerk in the documentary Last Will. & Testament, produced by Lisa and Laura Wilson: No historian has penetrated, yet, the mysteries of the Elizabethan age. It’s like going through a series of doors. We’ve got through three or four doors and maybe there are three or four to come. I’ve learned not to take anything for granted in the Elizabethan age and to never assume that you have the whole truth, and also never to be shocked by any of the revelations that might come out. (Beauclerk 1:00:56) THE OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 Acknowledgments This volume of The Oxfordian owes it existence to the continuous support of the journal’s editorial board who have reviewed submitted articles, advised the editor, and provided much supplementary support and enthusiasm. Wally Hurst Don Rubin Lynne Kositsky Tom Regnier Ron Hess Richard Waugaman Linda Theil Ramon Jimenez Jim Boyd Justin Borrow + + + Proofreading: Jim Boyd, Richard Joyrich, Janice Jackson, Tom Regnier, Michael Kositsky. Graphics Design, Software Support: Caitlin Pannell-Evans. The editor thanks everyone listed above for their ongoing support, and additionally thanks readers of this journal, without whom, it would not thrive. The OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 Table of Contents 1. Honest Ben and the Two Tribes He Hath Left Us by Gabriel Andrew Ready . .. .7 * Examines and critiques the publication in 2012 of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. * “I have long been aware of how the Stratfordian presumption skews Shakespearean scholarship. This article shows how it is also skewing Jonsonian scholarship.” – Tom Regnier. * Fresh analysis and point-of-view to the manner in which Jonson presents himself in the prefatory material of the First Folio. 2. Knowledge Ill-Inhabited: The Subjugation of Post-Stratfordian Scholarship in Academic Libraries by Michael Dudley . .. 27 * Outlines the influence of Library Sciences on the Shakespeare Authorship Ques- tion. * Reviews the cataloguing practices of the Library of Congress, the purchasing practices of modern libraries, and the relationships between English departments and their libraries in a university context. * Surveys the terrain for post-Stratfordian titles and Stratfordian titles, and comes to fascinating and chilling conclusions. * Discusses the politics of academic dissent, and shows how the placement of a book within a library system, can confer or deny meaning, with far-reaching consequences for Oxfordian theory. 3. Spinning Shakespeare by Don Rubin . 63 * Adaptation of a presentation given at the 2012 joint conference of the Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society. * Describes his experience at York University of lobbying for departmental approval to teach a course on the SAQ. * How he delivered such a course to 4th year undergraduates. * Includes appendixes such as an overview of the course materials, insights about organizing the SOF’s Toronto conference in 2013, and the price paid by academics who speak openly of reasonable doubt about the man from Stratford. 4. A Nearly Forgotten Article by J. Thomas Looney Introduction by James Warren . 79 * A reprint of an article by J.T. Looney from 1922, published in the first issue of a THE OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 British journal called The Golden Hind. * In The Earl of Oxford as ‘Shakespeare’: New Evidence, Looney deepens our understanding of the negotiations over Anne Cecil’s failed engagement to Phillip Sidney, and explores how her eventual marriage to Edward de Vere is itself explored in The Merry Wives of Windsor * Warren provides provenance for the Looney essay, and describes how he obtained an original copy of this issue of The Golden Hind. 5. Is Greene’s Groats-worth of Wit about Shakespeare, or By Him? by Robert Prechter . 95 Examines the possible relationship between Robert Greene, William Shakespeare, and Edward de Vere * Makes the thesis that neither Greene and Shakespeare exist- ed as writers and that Robert Greene was a pseudonym created by Oxford and that “Shakespeare” was an allonym, undertaken through a connection to the Stratford man. * Examines linguistic parallels between Greene’s plays and Shakespeare’s; cites the many dedications attached to Greene’s works that name relations of the 17th Earl of Oxford. 6. “A Mint of Phrases in His Brain” : Language, Historiography, and The Authorship Question in Love’s Labour’s Lost by Julie Harper Elb . 133 A historical summary of critical opinions on Love’s Labour’s Lost. * Reviews the gener- ally negative appraisal of the play over two centuries, caused by misidentification of the author. * Examines the way in which this play differs from other Shakespeare comedies. * Connects sources to the text, and argues its purpose for being written becomes less problematic, if readers can accept a court insider as the author. 7. Subliminal Chaucer in Shakespeare’s History Plays by Michael Delahoyde . .153 Addresses the few studies of Chaucer’s influence on Shakespeare’s writing, how they only make connections between Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare’s Troi- lus and Cressida or between Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale and Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen. * Connects many of Chaucer’s lesser-known works to Shakespearean works. * Adds to our understanding of the writerly relationship between the two founding figures in the English canon. 8. The Rediscovery of Shakespeare’s Greater Greek by Earl Showerman . 163 * Summarizes and updates Showerman’s previously published articles on the ques- The OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 tion(s) of Shakespeare’s knowledge of Greek, his sources, and the literary and lin- guistic parallels between works by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus and Shake- speare plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, The Winter’s Tale, and Much Ado About Nothing. 9. Oxfordian Theory and Continental Drift by James Warren . 193 Compares the history of Oxfordianism, with the history of the theory of Continen- tal Drift, first proposed by German geophysicist Alfred Wegener in 1915. * Outlines valuable insights for Oxfordians from the story of how continental drift was gradu- ally accepted. * Surveys the issue of methodology in research, especially when belief systems are undergoing change or experiencing pressure to change. 10. My Oxfordian Bookshelf by Chris Pannell . 222 An appreciative look at A Question of Will, a young adult adventure novel by Lynne Kositsky that dives into the essence of the Shakespeare Authorship Question. Inau- gural column. Honest Ben and the Two Tribes He Hath Left Us by Gabriel Ready n the early 1620s, an already famous Ben Jonson began frequenting a tavern on Fleet Street in London. Perhaps he was trying to escape the trials of the outside Iworld and the political realities underpinning a patronage system he relied on so dearly. Whatever the reason, the rules for inclusion, and exclusion – Leges Convivales or Rules of Conviviality – were engraved in marble over the mantelpiece of the room: Let none but guests or clubbers higher come, Let dunces, fools, sad, sordid men keep home; Let learned, civil, merry men be invited...1 The original Tribe of Ben was rather ambiguous and small. Today, the tribe is less ambiguous and very large. In 2012 with great cheer and much drinking of malmsey and sack, the new author- itative modern-spelling edition of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (CWBJ) was unveiled, succeeding the Herford and Simpson edition published over sixty years earlier by Oxford University. An electronic edition of CWBJ, originally launched in 2014 with a second release of material2 scheduled for 2015, will further help fulfill one of the main objectives of the twenty-plus-year project – that is, to better promote the reputation of Ben Jonson.3 Bibliophiles can be forgiven if they gravitate to the seven-volume print edition that contains seventeen extent plays, more than thirty court masques and entertainments, and three collections of poems. In the history of early modern books and what con- stitutes an authoritative collection, the English satirical playwright was a pioneer. He personally oversaw his own collection published in a luxurious folio format that in- cluded, to the bemusement of some, his plays. Jonson called his collection Workes, a term that at least one of his contemporaries mocked but that his Cambridge editors have honoured and retained. It is easy to forget that the 1616 Workes was a bold-faced effort of ego and willpower, offering some measure of the writer at the center of the production. For their part, the Cambridge editors have made the equally bold move of organizing the texts chronologically, as if guided by Jonson himself, ever-present and never more so than today. All previous major collections were organized by genre so the chronological 7 THE OXFORDIAN Volume 17 2015 Gabriel Ready ordering of the entire Jonsonian canon is a singular achievement. One hesitates at the idea of an electronic edition, not because it is a bad idea – it is not – but because it undercuts the historicist approach that “aims to relocate Jonson more emphatically in his times.”4 The recent re-examination of Jonson has opened up fascinating new vistas.
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