Germany may be the country in which the case for the Earl of Oxford’s authorship of the Shakespearean is most rapidly becoming assimilated in popular consciousness. The Neue Shake-speare Gesellschaft (New Shake-speare Society) — was set up on March 27, 2010 in Hamburg, by a group of editors, contributors and readers of the Neues Shake-speare Journal,which has been published since 1997. The Society’s objective is to draw the public’s attention to Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, as the author of Shakespeare’s works and to disseminate research that demonstrates his claim to the authorship. To this end the new society has acquired 300 copies of the printed edition of the first issue of Brief Chronicles and will be distributing them throughout the German literary community during the 2010-2011 academic year. |