Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) i Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies General Editor: Roger Stritmatter 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 Warren Hope, PhD, Montgomery County Community College, United States 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 Richard Waugaman, MD, Georgetown University School of Medicine and Washing- ton Psychoanalytic Institute, United States Copy Editors: Wenonah Sharpe Alex McNeil Kathryn M Sharpe Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) ii The editors wish to thank Richard Paul Roe for his generosity in making possible this printed version of Brief Chronicles’ inaugural issue. Copyright 2009 The Shakespeare Fellowship ISSN Pending Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) iii Vol 1 (2009) Inaugural Issue Table of Contents Articles Welcome to Brief Chronicles Roger A. Stritmatter, Gary Goldstein 1-7 Censorship in the Strange Case of William Shakespeare Winifred L. Frazer 9-28 The Psychology of the Authorship Question Richard Waugaman 29-39 The Fall of the House of Oxford Nina Green 41-95 Francis Meres and the Earl of Oxford Robert Detobel, K.C. Ligon 97-108 Shakespeare's Many Much Ado's: Alcestis, Hercules, and Love's Labour's Wonne Earl Showerman 109-140 Epicurean Time in Macbeth Peter Moore 141-154 Edward de Vere's Hand in Titus Andronicus Michael Delahoyde 155-168 Shakespeare's Will...Considered Too Curiously Bonner Cutting 169-191 A Sparrow Falls: Olivier's Feminine Hamlet Sky Gilbert 193-204 How Shakespeare Got His Tempest: Another “Just So” Story Roger Stritmatter and Lynne Kositsky 205-267 Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) iv First Person Dramatizing Shake-Speare's Treason Hank Whittemore 267-275 Reviews The Shakespeare Controversy Thomas Hunter 277-283 The Muse as Therapist Richard Waugaman 283-285 The Man who Invented Shakespeare Walter Klier 285-287 Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) v Contributor Bios Winifred L. Frazer (1916-1995) was Professor emeritus of literary studies at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Although focussing on Eugene O’Neill, Frazer also published on Faulkner, Shakespeare, and other writers. She was the author of The Theme of Loneliness in Modern American Drama (Univ. of Florida Press, 1960), the Twayne series biography of the arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan (Twayne, 1984), and, with Jordan Y. Miller, American Drama Between the Wars: A Critical History (Twayne, 1991), as well as a regular contributor to the Eugene O’Neill Newsletter, the Shakespeare-Oxford Society Newsletter, and the Shakespeare Newsletter. Richard Waugaman is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Training Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Psychoana- lytic Institute. Dr. Waugaman is a regular contributor to numerous psychoanalytical journals and a reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library specializing in the psychology and history of pseudonymity. His publication credits also include Notes and Queries and (forthcoming) Renaissance Studies. Nina Green holds a Master’s degree in Educational Administration and an LL.B from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Kelowna, B.C., Canada, and has been independently researching the authorship question since 1988. From 1989-1994 she authored and published The Edward de Vere Newsletter. She currently maintains a website on the authorship issue at http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/. Robert Detobel of Frankfurt, Germany, is a translator and publicist, and co-editor (with Dr. Uwe Laugwitz) of the Neues Shake-speare Journal, to which he has contrib- uted several articles. The journal, started in 1997, is the only Oxfordian publication in continental Europe. He also contributed articles to The Elizabethan Review, The Oxfordian, the Shakespeare-Oxford Society Newsletter, Shakespeare Matters, and the de Vere Society Newsletter. Together with the late KC Ligon he is the author of Shake- speare and the Concealed Poet, which is available online at www.elizabethanauthors. com, as well as being a contributor to Hanno Wember’s German language authorship website. www.shake-speare-today.de, launched in October 2009. K.C. Ligon (1948-2009) was a well-known actress, New York dialect coach, and scholar. She made her Broadway debut in Under Milk Wood at the age of eight, and subsequently appeared with her parents in the National Tour of The Visit with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She was a member of the first graduating class of what is now the Graduate Acting Program, Tisch School of the Arts. As an adult She starred in Subject to Fits at the New York Public Theater, and Hamlet , The Importance of Being Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) vi Earnest, and Travesties at the Mark Taper Forum, among others. Her dialect coach credits include the Naked Angels production of Emily Mann’s play Meshugah at the Kirk Theatre, New York City (2003), Loretta Greco’s production of INKY by Rinne Groff, for The Women’s Project at the Julia Miles Theater (April 2005), and Jack Cummings III’s production of Tad Mosel’s All the Way Home at the Connelly Theatre (November 2006). She co-authored a series articles and a book with Mr. Detobel, including “The Harvey-Nashe Quarrel and Love’s Labor’s Lost.” 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 Shakespeare authorship question. He has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Fel- lowship and The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition. Since 2005 he has presented and published a series of papers on the topic of Shakespeare’s “greater Greek,” explicat- ing 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. Peter Moore (1949-2007) was an independent scholar, better known to peers in Europe than his native United States. Moore contributed articles to six peer-reviewed journals in Europe and the United States from 1993 to 2006, including The English Historical Review, Notes and Queries (England), Neophilologus, English Studies (Hol- land), Cahiers Élisabéthains (France) and The Elizabethan Review (United States). Moore’s published papers on Shakespeare are collected in The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised (2009) from Verlag Uwe Laugwitz. Michael Delahoyde is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of English, Washington State University. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Chaucer, di- nosaur films, children’s toys, and meat ads, and has been consulted and interviewed by producers at the Discovery Channel and Cinema Secrets, and by various maga- zines. He is a senior editor of the Rocky Mountain Review of Languages and Literature, the journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Bonner Miller Cutting, a Trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship, has presented papers 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. Sky Gilbert is a noted novelist, playwright, poet, and filmmaker. He received his PhD in Theater Studies from the University of Toronto. Currently, he holds the Uni- versity Chair in Creative Writing and Theater Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Brief Chronicles Vol. I (2009) vii Roger Stritmatter is an Associate Professor of humanities at Coppin State Univer- sity in Baltimore, MD. He has published on Shakespearean topics in a wide range of academic and popular contexts, including over 16 articles in peer reviewed journals, among them Review of English Studies, Notes and Queries, Critical Survey, Cahiers Élis- abéthains, The Rocky Mountain Review of Languages and Literature, and The Shakespeare Yearbook (forthcoming, spring 2010). He holds a Masters Degree in Anthropology (New School for Social Research) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Lynne Kositsky is an award-winning Canadian poet and author, who has taught English and creative writing at all levels, from middle school to University. Both her poetry and her ten published historical novels have been critically acclaimed. Among her awards are the prestigious E. J. Pratt Medal and Award, and the Canadian Author and Bookman Award, and a White Raven Award. Her first novel, Candles, was short-listed for the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Award. Her 2004 Holocaust novel, The Thought of High Windows, received rave reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus, The Washing- ton Post, among many others, besides being short-listed for several prizes. It won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth in 2006. With Professor Roger Stritmatter, Kositsky has written a whole series of articles on the Tempest, which have been pub- lished or are forthcoming at Review of English Studies, The Oxfordian, Critical Survey and The Shakespeare Yearbook. Minerva’s Voyage, Lynne’s most recent fiction book, is an adventure mystery based on a shipwreck in the Bermudas in 1609. Hank Whittemore is an actor, playwright, journalist and author of eleven books, including one novel and ten non-fiction books. Most recently he wrote The Monument: an Examination of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2005), which forms the basis of the play, Shake-speare’s Treason. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and later appeared as an actor on the New York stage with Helen Hayes and Art Car- ney.