Jim Warren – Foundations of the Oxfordian Claim

The evidence in support of Edward de Vere’s authorship of “Shakespeare’s” works is far stronger than most people today realize because much of the evidentiary basis uncovered by the first generations of Oxfordian scholars in the 1920s and 1930s has been forgotten. Of the eleven distinct lines of evidence they uncovered, only four are well known today. Three others are only partially known, and four more are mostly unknown. This presentation reviews all eleven lines of evidence in the order in which they were first uncovered to provide a sense of how the Oxfordian movement developed as well as information about the lines of evidence themselves. Bio: James A. Warren is the author of Shakespeare Revolutionized (2021), a history of the Oxfordian movement, and the editor of the Centenary edition of Looney's “Shakespeare” Identified (2019). Most recently he edited a seven-volume set of Percy Allen's complete writings on Shakespeare. Descriptions of all fourteen of his books can be found at his author page at amazon.com. Jim's interest in the authorship of Shakespeare's works blossomed a decade ago, at about the time he retired from the U.S. Department of State, where he had served as a career diplomat. This talk was presented as part of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship 2022 Annual Conference in Ashland, OR, on September 23, 2022. Learn more at ShakespeareOxfordFellowship.org.