The Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable has held meetings
in and around Los Angeles for almost 40 years. ​
​
2023 - 2024
3-Speaker Event: "Mysteries of the First Folio"
Rima Greenhill: Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan: English-Russian Relations in Love's Labours Lost
Geir Uthaug: The Political Isolation of England & Challenges to Elizabeth’s Rule
Elizabeth Quattrocki Knight: Could Philip Sidney be the 'Fair Youth' of the Sonnets?​
​
Whole Season Available on YouTube
2022 - 2023
3-Speaker Event: "Did Many Hands Make Light Work?"
Michael Delahoyde: "A Song, a Dance and a Rail"
Ros Barber: "The Case for Marlowe as Author & Co-Author"
Elizabeth Winkler: "New Thoughts on the Authorship Question"
Robert Prechter: "Was Thomas Nashe a Person or a Persona?"​
​
Whole Season Available on YouTube
2021 - 2022
3-Speaker Event: "Alchemy & Metaphysics in Shakespeare's Time"
Alexander Waugh: "John Dee & the Shakespeare Authorship Question"
Sabrina Feldman: "Discoveries that Change the Future of the Shakespeare Authorship"
Robin Williams: "Does Shakespeare Write Like a Girl?"
Robert Prechter: "Who Wrote George Peele's Only Extant Letter?"
​
Whole Season Available on YouTube
2020 - 2021
"J. Thomas Looney Centennial" - Bonner Miller Cutting
"Shakespeare's Greater Greek" - Earl Showerman
"The Countess of Pembroke and the Sonnets" - John Yeomans
"The Dark Lady: Southampton, Devereux & Devere" - John Hamill
"The Thomas North Candidacy" - Michael Blanding & Dennis McCarthy
​
Whole Season Available on YouTube
​
*******
2019 - 2020 (last in person season)
"How Christopher Marlowe Became Shakespeare" - Ed Ayres
"Hiding in Plain Sight - Early Authorship Doubts" - Bryan H. Wildenthal
"Shakespeare's Puzzles, Pembroke Plays and Sonnets" - John Yeomans
​
2018-2019
"Love’s Labors Found in the Italian Archive" - Michael Delahoyde
"The Life of Thomas Sackville, Whose Poetry Paved the Way to Shakespeare" - Sabrina Feldman
"Henry V: Sources, Dates, and Venue" - Ramon Jimenez
"Are the Editors of the First Folio Hiding in Plain Sight?" - Bonner Miller Cutting
​
2017-2018
“Power Games: Jewels in the Time of Shakespeare” - Sally Mosher
“Botanical Shakespeare” - Gerit Quealy
“Penelope, Avisa and the Dark Lady” - John Hamill
“Literary Fraud in Elizabethan England” - Sabrina Feldman
2016-2017
"Shakespeare & the Stars - The Hidden Astrological Keys to Understanding the World’s Greatest Playwright” - Priscilla Costello
“A.C. Swinburne vs the New Shakspere Society” - Jeffrey Kahan
“Shakespeare’s Secret Jews” - Ben Donenberg
“O Brave New Will: Images of Justice & Intolerance in Shakespeare’s Plays” - Louis Fantasia
2015-2016
“Return of the Knights Templar” - Michael Henry Dunn
“Elizabethan Censorship and Punishment” - Bonnie Miller Cutting
“Shakespeare & Torquato Tasso” - Ron Tasso
“The Definitive Case for Marlowe” - Alex Ayres
2014-2015
“Marlowe's Ghost in "As You Like It” - Dr. Steve Sohmer
“A Brief History of Stylometrics” - Professor Daniel Wright
“Nothing Truer Than Truth: A Documentary about DeVere & Italy” - Cheryl Eagan-Donovan
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Aristophanic Comedy” - Dr. Earl Showerman
“DeVere vs Sidney: Tennis & Pseudonyms” - Gerit Quealy
2013-2014
“Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being” - Mark Mendizza
“King John's Bastard Prince” - Professor Daniel Wright
“SPECIAL EVENT at the Belasco Theater in New York City” - Mark Rylance
(Co-sponsored by the Shakespearean Authorship Trust)
“More Russian Intrigue in Love's Labor's Lost” - Rima Greenhill
“Shakespeare Goes to Hollywood” - James Ulmer
2012-2013
“Early Sources of The Tempest” - Professor Roger Stritmatter
“Shakespeare & the Alchemy of Gender” - Lisa Wolpe
“Othello's Guide to Italy” - Sylvia Crowley Holmes
“Shakespeare & Politics” - Louis Fantasia
“Shakespeare & Spiritualism” - Professor Jeffrey Kahan
2011-2012
“The Patronage of the Countess of Derby & the Stanley Co-Heiresses” - Dr. Vanessa Wilkie
“Shakespeare's Ghostly Tragedies” - Dr. Earl Showerman
“Music in Elizabethan England” - Sally Mosher & Sylvia Crowley Holmes
“Eternal Numbers: Shakespeare Sonnets Refigured” - Marty Hyatt
“Sleuthing Shakespeare and the Masons” - Helen H. Gordon
​
CLICK FOR LECTURE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE ROUNDTABLE (1985 – 2015)​
​
