There is plenty of room at the Symposium, Saturday, May 8. 

Please feel free to leave a reservation by email, (see below, or click on the RSVP page listed to your left) or, telephone:  617-955-3198.

You may attend any or all of the presentations.  “Walk-ins” are welcome. You are welcome to come to the event Saturday, even without an RSVP in advance.

In the unlikely event the room should fill, we will put a message on our voicemail letting you know. Please call 617-955-3198.

Thank you.  We hope you will be able to join us for this event!

A Symposium:  Shakespeare from the Oxfordian Perspective 2010

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Watertown Free Public Library, 123 Main Street, Watertown, MA

Email:  info@shakespearesymposium.org

Telephone:  617-955-3198

Free Admission & open to the public

RSVP recommended to ensure you a space

Please scroll down for a listing of all Charles Beauclerk’s Boston area appearances

In April 2010, two new books have reinvigorated the authorship debate.  James Shapiro, noted Shakespearean scholar of Columbia University surveys the history of the authorship debate in “Contested Will:  Who Wrote Shakespeare?” recognizing its growing prominence and acceptance.  The Oxfordian perspective of Charles Beauclerk’s Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom:  The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth reconnects the “shocking political works” to Oxford’s unique position in Elizabethan affairs, thus “humanizing the bard who for centuries has been beyond our grasp.”

Why is it important who wrote Shakespeare?  Why is there so little connection between the life of William Shakespeare from Stratford and the complex heroes and villains of these magnificent plays?  The Shakespeare Symposium will present a day-long program on Saturday, May 8, 2010, that will address these questions at the Watertown Free Public Library in Watertown, Massachusetts

.  Our morning program will focus on the Shakespeare authorship question; the afternoon will include two talks that detail the life of Edward de Vere and current scholarship on the authorship debate, featuring Charles Beauclerk.  Beauclerk’s talk will focus on Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, with its astonishingly bleak portrait of a bankrupt nobleman who very much resembles Edward de Vere.  He will also address the debate itself.  Bostonians who frequent the theater will appreciate this timely discussion, as the Actors’ Shakespeare Project will be performing this rarely produced play May 19 - June 13, 2010, at the Midway Studios in Boston.

For the complete Saturday, May 8, 2010, Symposium schedule, please click here.

Books will be available for purchase at this event

This event is co-sponsored by:

Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom:  The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of English literature. Who was the man behind Hamlet, King Lear, and the sonnets?  In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, critically acclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an enchanting feat, humanizing the bard who for centuries has remained beyond our grasp.  Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching the authorship question, and he convincingly argues that if the plays and poems of “Shakespeare” were discovered today, we would see them for what they are -- shocking political works written by a court insider, someone whose status and anonymity shielded him from repression in an unstable time of armada and reformation.  But the author’s unique status and identity were swept under the rug after his death.  The official history -- of an uneducated Stratfordian merchant writing in obscurity and of a virginal queen married to her country -- dominated for centuries.  Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom delves deep into the conflicts and personalities of Elizabethan England, as well as into the plays themselves, to tell the true story of the “Soul of the Age.” You’ll never look at Shakespeare the same way again.

Please click on book, left, for more information.

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Charles Beauclerk’s May 2010 Boston area appearances:

Please also see New York Times May 2, 2010, article reviewing several books related to the Shakespeare authorship question including Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth, and James Shapiro’s, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Contact the organizations listed below for information. Please note Thursday evening is RSVP only.

Thursday, May 6:

1:00 p.m. Borders Bookstore, 10-24 School Street, Boston, MA 617-557-7188

Book signing.  Open to the public.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. English Speaking Union

Cocktail reception, talk, and book signing to be held in a private home in Brookline.  Space is limited and advance reservations are required.  Cost is $20.  Address and additional information will be mailed when making a reservation.

For reservations, please contact Patricia at telephone: 617- 247-9418, or email: pgb8848@aol.com.

Friday, May 7:

7:00 p.m. Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Harvard Square, 617-499-2000

Book signing.  Open to the public.  Anyone interested may gather for a casual outing in Harvard Square after the reading.  Look for Bill Boyle at the Coop.

Saturday, May 8:

2:45 p.m. Shakespeare Symposium, Watertown Free Public Library,

                123 Main Street, Watertown, MA 

                info@shakespearesymposium.org              

                617-955-3198