Brief Chronicles VI (2015) i Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies VI (2015) Brief Chronicles VI (2015) ii e Copyright 2015 The Shakespeare Fellowship Designed in Baltimore, MD. Online ISSN: 2157-6793 Print ISSN: 2157-6785 6 This 2015 volume VI ofBrief 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, such as Rob Anderson, who designed the Flight of the Dragon Celtic Knot Caps, the creators of BD Renaissance, Streetwise Software, and Mr. Fisk, the creator of Satanus Humanum Salvator, who describes himself as a “distressed-font-guru.” 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. l e st our e nco m i u m s sho u ld b l a st t hy b ay s a no n. w it.s r ecr e at io n .164.. co ppi n l i v e s. Brief Chronicles VI (2015) 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, 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 i Brief Chronicles VI (2015) iv Contributor Biographies Bernd Brackmann studied German and Latin at the University of Bielefeld, worked as a teacher and in nursing care, and since 2003 has been a vocational trainer for adults and youth. “Biography, Genius and Inspiration in the Authorship Question” is his first contribution to Brief Chronicles. Robert Detobel is a translator and scholar based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is co-editor (with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz) of the Neues Shake-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. 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 second publication in Brief Chronicles. 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 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. Richard Malim was a practising English Lawyer. He qualified in 1962 and after a period in London joined the provincial family firm, rising to become senior partner Brief Chronicles VI (2015) v in 1993. He finally retired in 2003. In 1991 he joined the De Vere Society, and from 2003 has been the Society’s secretary. He was the General editor of the Society’s book of essays commemoratingthe quatercentenary of Oxford’s death, Great Oxford (Parapress 2005), and subsequently the author of The Earl of Oxford and the “Making” of Shakespeare: The Life of Edward de Vere in Context (McFarland 2012). James Norwood earned BA degrees in Drama and French from the University of California at Irvine, as well as MA and PhD.degrees in Dramatic Art from the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley. For twenty-six years, he taught humanities and the per- forming arts at the University of Minnesota. For a decade, he taught a semester course on the Shakespeare authorship question. He wrote the foreword to the paperback edi- tion of Charles Beauclerk’s Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom and served as a consultant for the documentary film Last Will. & Testament. William J. Ray attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated “with great distinction” in the Political Science Department in 1968. He continued his intel- lectual and artistic interests while working and homesteading East of Willits, Califor- nia, publishing regionally in books, journals, newspapers, and most recently lecturing and writing on the Shakespeare identification issue. He is a former Shakespeare Fel- lowship Trustee who produces authorship related DVD’s, essays, and reviews, col- lected in the website, wjray.net. 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 trust- ee of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Earl Showerman, MD, graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michi- gan 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 Shakespeare authorship question. He has served as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Ox- ford Fellowship and the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition. Since 2005 he has pre- sented and published 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. 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 Brief Chronicles VI (2015) vi Southeast Asia for the Institute of International Education (IIE). James is currently devoting his energies to literary and musical pursuits, and in 2013 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. Alexander Waugh is the author of several books, including Classical Music (1995), Opera (1996), Time (1999) and God (2002). His family memoir, Fathers and Sons (2004), was made into 90-minute BBC documentary; a second family memoir, The House of Wittgenstein the story of the Austrian family of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, was published in 2008. The General Editor of the scholarly 42-volume Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh for Oxford University Press, Waugh is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester, Honorary President of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and life-member of the De Vere Society. He co-edited, with John Shahan, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (2013) and published Shakespeare in Court as a ‘Kindle Short’ in 2014. Richard Whalen is co-editor with Ren Draya of Blackburn College of Othello in the Oxfordian Shakespeare Series. He is a general editor of the Oxfordian editions series and the author of Shakespeare Who Was He? The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon (Greenwood-Praeger, 1994). Brief Chronicles VI (2015) vii Table of Contents From the Pulpit: A Few Home Truths — A British Introduction Alexander Waugh 1-8 Sisyphus and the Globe: Turning (on) the Media Don Rubin 9-22 Biography, Genius, and Inspiration Bernd Brackmann