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Brief Chronicles VII (2016) i All of nature dances.... -Sir John Davies, Orchestra Brief Chronicles VII (2016) ii e Copyright 2016 The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Designed in Baltimore, MD Online ISSN: 2157-6793 Print ISSN: 2157-6785 o This final 2016 volume VII of Brief Chronicles, in keeping with our tradition, 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. We've been sneaking in glyphs of Satanus Humanum Salvator, BD Renaissance, DeiGratia and EileenCaps on the sly — and in this issue, suitably, Papyrus. All these, in addition to our original lineup of Rob Anderson's Flight of the Dragon Celtic Knot Caps, and T. Olsson’s 1993 Ornament Scrolls, available for free download from typOasis, have finally furnished an inviting opportunity to apply some of the theoretical principles discussed by our more disting- uished con- tributors. dump trump please god Brief Chronicles VII (2016) iii General Editor: Roger Stritmatter, PhD, Coppin State University Managing Editor: Michael Delahoyde, PhD, Washington State University Editorial Board: Carole Chaski, PhD, Institute for Linguistic Evidence 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, Professor, 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 i Brief Chronicles VII (2016) iv Contributor Biographies Elke Brackmann studied English and German at the University of Innsbruck. Being a grammar school teacher in Innsbruck and later Wuppertal for years, she has repeatedly performed Shakespeare plays both with A-level students and younger ones. She embraced the Oxfordian cause in her fifties and, together with Robert Detobel, is working on the project “A Biographical Approach to the Sonnets” for EFL-Students. At present she is also co-chair of the Neue Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (www.Shakespeare-today.de), with Hanno Wember. Robert Detobel is a translator and scholar based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is co- editor (with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz) of the Neues Shakspeare-speare Journal, published annually in Germany since 1997. Author of the book, Wie aus William Shaxsper William Shakespeare wurde (How William Shaxsper became William Shakespeare) (2005), Detobel has appeared in The Elizabethan Review and The Oxfordian, among other scholarly publications. Together with the late K.C. Ligon, he is co-author of the book Shakespeare and The Concealed Poet (2010). This is his third appearance in Brief Chronicles. Kevin Gilvary obtained his BA and MA in Classics and later his MA in Applied Lin- guistics from the University of Southampton, UK. He has taught at UBC in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at Markham College, Lima, Peru, and for twenty years at Barton Peveril College, Hampshire, UK. He was first alerted to the Authorship Question by inquisitive students and has been a member of the De Vere Society for fifteen years, and recently served as DVS chairman. He has contributed articles to Great Oxford (2004) and edited Dating Shakespeare’s Plays (2010) for which he was awarded the prize of Oxfordian of the Year at a joint SF/SOS meeting in 2011. In 2015 he obtained his doctorate from Brunel University London with the thesis “Shakespearean Biografiction: How modern biographers rely on context, conjecture and inference to construct a life of the nBar- nod.” Richard Malim is a retired English lawyer with over twenty-five years interest and study of the Authorship Question. In 2003 he became secretary of the De Vere Society (www.deveresociety), and was the editor of Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (2004), a collection of essays to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Oxford. In 2011 he published The Earl of Oxford and the Making of “Shakespeare”: The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context, a book that seeks to contextualize de Vere's life in the context of the history and development of English Literature. The De Vere Society is kind enough Brief Chronicles VII (2016) v to publish an annual cumulative supplement on its website. Carolyn Morris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology. She has been an Oxfordian since 1989, and for the past five years has studied the satires of the late 1590s, focusing on Joseph Hall’s Virgidemiarum (1599). In 2013, she published an article in The Oxfordian, “Did Joseph Hall and Ben Jonson Identify Oxford as Shakespeare?” She has been a Reader at the Folger Library, The Library of Congress and has interacted with the Huntington Library and the British Library in pursuing this research as an independent scholar. James A. Warren was a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State for more than twenty years, during which he served in public diplomacy positions at U.S. embassies and consulates in eight countries, mostly in Asia. Following his career with the State Department he served as Executive Director of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and then as Regional Director for Southeast Asia for the Institute of International Education (IIE). In 2013 he received the Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Shakespearean Scholarship from Concordia University (Portland, Oregon) for his accomplishment as the editor of An Index to Oxfordian Publications. He is a Fellow with the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas and the Adler-Aquinas Institute. Richard Waugaman, MD, 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. Brief Chronicles VII (2016) vi Brief Chronicles VII (2016) vii Vol. VII (2016) Table of Contents Articles Who Wrote the First Biography of Shakespeare? It was not Nicholas Rowe in 1709! Kevin Gilvary 1-15 Greed and Generosity in the Shakespearean Question Richard M. Waugaman 17-32 An Arrogant Joseph Hall and an Angry Edward de Vere in Virgidemiarum [1599] Carolyn Morris 33-82 Teaching the Sonnets and de Vere’s Biography at School – Opportunities and Risks Elke Brackmann and Robert Detobel 83-110 Oxford and The Arte of English Poesie Richard Malim 111-130 Edward de Vere: Translator of Johan Sturm’s A Ritch Storehouse or Treasurie for Nobilitie and Gentlemen? Richard M. Waugaman 131-146 Engaging Academia: Some Thoughts James Warren 147-178 Exchange of Letters between James Warren and John Shahan 179-184 d Brief Chronicles VII (2016) viii Brief Chronicles VII (2016) ix Farewell….and Hello Again. othing better commends a writing to an editor than one that follows the standards established by the journal, including, but not limited to, adherence Nto the journal’s style sheet. A good article, moreover, conducts a thorough and impartial job of canvassing the relevant scholarship – what has been said before, by others, about the topic being considered. After a judicious summary, it offers some- thing unexpected or novel, raising new points of fact or applying new methods of in- terpretation to resolve outstanding ambiguities or problems. Still better, the submis- sion that can turn the history of the scholarship on a topic to advantage in an inter- pretation or a debate will always win against one that is seen to ignore vital sources of possible contradiction or interpretative conflict for fear that these perspectives may fail to support the author’s primary contentions. Above all, a good academic article is self-critical – that is, it displays a constant vigilance with respect to the possibility of error and a humility about what is still not known about a topic.1 Dealing with signif- cant contrary evidence by conspicuous omission does not work in the long run. That may sound harsh, but at age fifty-eight, after eight issues ofBC , and nineteen issues of Shakespeare Matters, I feel I deserve my chance to say it. The Oxfordian movement has seen styles come and go over time as different editors have assumed the responsibility of editing the various publications that now are official bibliographical entries in the history of the Shakespeare Underground (a term, for the record, I first used in 1991), as included in James A. Warren’s Index to Oxfordian Publications (2015) and other authorship bibliographies. When I joined the Shakespeare Oxford Society in 1991, Morse Johnson was still editing the newsletter on an IBM Selectric typewriter. His issues were full of great heart and vitality. Morse republished old materials that were difficult to find assembled anywhere else but contained much enlightenment, as well as a lively exchange of often very good articles, letters to the editor, and an occasional flight of fiction, by an ever-shifting mosaic of writers. The movement had been recently re-energized by the publication of Charlton Ogburn’s The Mysterious William Shakespeare, the archival work and publishing of Ruth Loyd Miller, the 1987 Moot Court at American University organized by David Lloyd Kreeger, and major authorship stories in The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Yet Johnson produced the newsletter on a Selectric, aided, as I recall, by his law firm secretary. Brief Chronicles VII (2016) x This was in 1991, almost a decade into the microcomputer revolution, which was putting professional desktop publishing tools, of the kind first used by Bill Boyle after he took over the job of editing the newsletter in 1996, into the hands of millions of desktop designers.