Don’t Quill The Messenger

06/22/2026

Steven welcomes Michael Dudley to this latest episode to discuss his new role as the editor of The Oxfordian Journal. Fellow Quillers will r

06/17/2026

Coming this Friday.... Newly named Editor of The Oxfordian journal, Michael Dudley, shares his new vision for the annual publication and teases this year's contents...

05/25/2026

Is it possible that these two Trail Blazers were authorship skeptics? Their studies, their work, their collections, and their Shake🪶Speare volumes suggest maybe….

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05/23/2026

Don't you love how the perfect "propagandist" queen was so astute at using images to her advantage, but not literature??? She had all of these specific portraits painted, but never thought to commission any writer to pen plays for her subjects to consume??
O, orthodoxy! You always want it both ways.... Image savvy Queen who cared less for the writings of the stage. Uneducated genius who wrote the Queen's greatest propaganda unbeknownst to anyone important.

No monarch in our history has understood the power of image more than Elizabeth I. And she needed to. This “illegitimate heretic” came to power at a time when female rulers were treated with disdain, and yet she confounded expectations by becoming the most successful ruler of the Tudor age, brin...

05/14/2026

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05/12/2026

We always love it when one of our guests is recognized for their contributions to Shakespeare scholarship, especially when we get a hat tip as well!

Iowa State University

05/01/2026

Is the Folger starting to become intellectually honest about the Shakespeare authorship mystery?? PROBABLY....

04/20/2026

More hogwash...

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04/17/2026

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04/15/2026

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