How has J. Thomas Looney’s Oxfordian theory, propounded in his revolutionary 1920 book, “Shakespeare Identified,” influenced Shakespeare studies over the past century? Professor Roger Stritmatter offers a unique perspective on the subject, surveying various connections between “Shakespeare” and Oxford’s life that build on Looney’s insights, including markings in Oxford’s personal Geneva Bible.

Stritmatter is Professor of Humanities and Literature at Coppin State University in Baltimore. He has been deeply engaged in Shakespeare studies for three decades, publishing dozens of scholarly articles in leading journals including “Review of English Studies,” “Shakespeare Yearbook,” “Notes and Queries,” and “Critical Survey.” He is co-author (with Lynne Kositsky) of “On the Date, Sources, and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest” (2013), and (with Alexander Waugh) the forthcoming “New Shakespeare Allusion Book.” His 2001 Ph.D. thesis, “The Marginalia of Edward de Vere’s Geneva Bible,” explores numerous parallels to biblical references in the works of Shakespeare.

This talk was presented on March 4, 2020, at the “Shakespeare Identified” Centennial Symposium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Bob Meyers, who moderated the symposium and introduced the speakers, is an award-winning journalist and author who formerly served as president of the National Press Foundation and director of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health.

For more on the Shakespeare authorship question see ShakespeareOxfordFellowship.org.

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