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Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose
by Elisabeth Sears
$12.00 (paperback, 2003)

This small but learned volume presents a strong case that Edward and Elizabeth I, the Tudor Rose, were married and had a son together, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton.

"This book is a brilliant achievement, a landmark in the effort to understand the mysteries of William Shakespeare," writes Hank Whittemore in the Introduction. Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose
presents a fascinating and tragic history in convincing fashion.

The Anglican Shakespeare
by Daniel Wright
$12.00 (paperback, 1993)

The Anglican Shakespeare is Concordia University professor Daniel Wright's demonstration of the Protestant stance of the writer who called himself Shakespeare --- a stance that made Shakespeare, through the history plays, an invaluable Reformation apologist, historical revisionist, and propagandist for the Crown.

Discovering Shakespeare : a Festschrift in honor of Isabel Holden. Edited by Daniel Wright
$12.00 (paperback, 2009)

A collection of original essays published in honor of Isabel Holden by the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre. Contents include essays by Charles Beauclerk, William Leahy, Michael Delahoyde, Ren Draya, John Hamill, Hank Whittemore, William Boyle, Earl Showerman, Rima Greenhill, Richard Whalen and John Shahan, and Roger Stritmatter and Lynne Kositsky.

An original April 1999 issue of Harper's, which includes the 27-page landmark series of articles on the authorship debate, "The Ghost of Shakespeare : who, in fact, was the real Bard?"
$15.00

The 27-page Shakespeare Authorship section featured in this issue was an historic Oxfordian-Stratfordian showdown, presided over by editor Louis Lapham. The featured articles were written by Statfordians Harold Bloom, Marjorie Garber, Gail Kern Paster, Jonathan Bate and Irv Matus, and on the Oxfordian side, by Joseph Sobran, Richard Whalen, Mark Anderson, Daniel Wright and Tom Bethell.

Shake-speare's "Phoenix and Turtle" : an interpretation by William Plumer Fowler,
with an exegesis by Dorothy Ogburn
$10.00 (Paperback, 1986)

A little-known but important set of essays by William Plumer Fowler and Dorothy Ogburn. In both essays the authors explicate the enigmatic Shakespeare poem "Phoenix and Turtle" (published in 1601) from the point of view that the "Phoenix" is Elizabeth, "Oxford/Shakespeare" is the Turtle, and "Rarity" is the 3rd Earl of Southampton. The context within which they frame their explications is the Essex Rebellion and the struggle for the succession after Elizabeth is gone.

"Leaving no posterity
'Twas not their infirmity
It was married chastity."

Coincidences - Bacon and Shakespeare
by Edwin Reed
(Hardcover, Coburn Press, 1906)

$35.00

This Baconian text offers an intriguing list of parallels between Bacon and Shakespeare,
not ciphers.

This first edition copy is in very good condition overall, but one page (a frontispiece portrait) has come loose. Spine is faded. There is no dust jacket.

William Shakespeare and His Three Friends - Ben, Anthony and Francis
by Frank A. Kendall
(Hardcover, W.A. Butterfield, 1911)

$35.00

A Baconian text that explores the use of acrostics in determining authorship, and proposes the involvement of Ben Jonson, Anthony Bacon and Francis Bacon in both writing and encoding Shakespeare.

This first edition copy is in excellent condition. There is
no dust jacket.

Incudes articles by Gwynneth Bowen on "Touching the Affray at the Blackfriars," and by Dorothy Ogburn on "The Authorship of The True Tragedie of Edward the Second."

Also includes book reviews, news notes and letters.

Includes "Purloined Plumes" by Gwynneh Bowen, "The Earl of Oxford's Escape Plot" (reprinted from The Marvellous Chance) by Francis Edwards, and "Oxfordian Echoes" by Harold Patience.

"Friends of the Oxford Library" Tote Bag
$10.00

These are handsome, canvas bags, available in three colors (black, blue, or red). Pack 'em with books. If you don't have enough books, buy some here!