For the time being, I continue to write new essays on Tudor times, Shakespeare and the Shakespeare Authorship Question and post them on my Virtual Grub Street blog. The gratifying traffic they have received to date indicates to me that many of the readers are aware of that.
The other Administrators at Edward de Vere was Shakespeare Facebook group are periodically posting rotating links to my many essays new and used. They also provide me the means to reply to comments with my Virtual Vanaprastha publishing label as moniker and will manage housekeeping and governance for the group.
My attention, then, has shifted somewhat to the Virtual Grub Street blogs themselves. Followers of the blogs can post comments that I am likely to see before I see Facebook comments. One can become a “follower” of the blogs from within his or her Blogger or other Google (G-mail, Chrome etc.) account.
Just as my Fb account suffered the “mortal malfunction,” I was in the process of designing a private blog called “The Shakespeare Authorship Vault”. The Vault is intended to have a growing number of deposit boxes (posts) filled with selected source materials from my ongoing research. Of course, civil conversation / debate is encouraged. I will announcement that Vault again when it opens.
Blogger limits private blogs to 100 members by invitation only. Should there eventually be more than 100 people who request and receive Google G-mail invitations, I will likely rotate people in and out so they can access the information available in the boxes at least for a period of time.
I have also begun the Shakespeare Authorship w/o Ciphers or Conspiracies account at BlueSky. I invite anyone interested in the topic to join either of these. Should they wish to join the Facebook group and post/comment I must ask for their patience as their first post or comment will require approval and it can sometimes take weeks (generally less) before an administrator is available to check the group status and approve posts.
Also at Virtual Grub Street:
Invention in a Noted Weed: the Poetry of William Shakespeare. September 21, 2024. “The coward conquest of a wretches knife,...”
The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 108. Edward de Vere to his son, Henry. “That may expresse my love, or thy deare merit?”
- Sonnet 130: Shakespeare's Reply to a 1580 Poem by Thomas Watson. September 7, 2024. “Interesting to see our Derek Hunter debating with Dennis McCarthy, at the North group,...”.
- Rocco Bonetti's Blackfriars Fencing School and Lord Hunsdon's Water Pipe. August 12, 2023. “... the tenement late in the tenure of John Lyllie gentleman & nowe in the tenure of the said Rocho Bonetti...”
Check out the Shakespeare Authorship Article Index for many more articles and reviews about this fascinating time and about the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
- Check out the V.G.S. Oxfordian Shakespeare Poetry Page for many poems by Shakespeare together with historical context.
The book & monograph effort will continue in the usual fashion. Subjects much too long for blog posts will appear, from time to time, for small amounts per publication, under the Virtual Vanaprastha label, at Amazon Kindle. Two are presently available in paperback and more are expected to follow.
Kindle books & monographs run from 11,000 to 46,000 words in length. They are fully footnoted and include extensive bibliographies. The books & monographs can be found on my Amazon Author Page.
I thank everybody for their patience during this transition.
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