Gary Goldstein's Reflections on the True Shakespeare gathers a wide range of essays in a highly effective way. What sets Goldstein's work apart is the seriousness with which he treats his subject – seeing the authorship question as a cultural riddle with important implications – and the respect he has for fact. Most of the essays persuasively pile up factual evidence in support of a thesis and yet are written in a lively way so that the arguments are compelling. He is especially good on Shakespeare’s knowledge and use of foreign languages but is also able to use the same approach to make a convincing case that Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was James Joyce’s candidate for Shakespearean honors.
Warren Hope, Professor of English, University of the Sciences

After he received a master’s degree from New York University, Gary Goldstein coproduced Uncovering Shakespeare, a three-hour televi-sion program on the Shakespeare authorship issue moderated by William F. Buckley, Jr. Goldstein later founded The Elizabethan Review, a peer-reviewed history journal that focused on the English Renaissance, which he served as editor from 1993-2001. Later, he was co-editor of Brief Chronicles from 2009-2011, a peer-reviewed literary journal that concen-trates on authorship studies.

Not only does Noemi Magri assure us that "Nothing in Shakespeare is meaningless," she shows this to be the case with numerous overlooked or misinterpreted details regarding Shakespeare's intimate knowledge of Italy: its art, geography, politics, law, etymologies, and more. Collecting Magri's work into one volume here, Such Fruits Out of Italy is a treasury of Shakespearean discoveries, and a triumph of scholarship.
Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Professor of English, Washington State University

Noemi Magri's Such Fruits Out of Italy is a fascinating and scrupulously researched collection of essays that makes an excellent case for the idea that Shakespeare must have visited Italy, not merely read about the country in his source material.
Sky Gilbert, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of Guelph

A graduate of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Noemi Magri later devoted her PhD dissertation to Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, producing a new critical edition based on the first four editions of that Elizabethan book of sonnets. She also earned the distinction of being an Italian Fulbright scholar at New York University in 1985. For most of her professional career, she taught English at Mantua’s ITIS School and then trained the English instructors at ITIS. She also promoted English language and literature in Italian schools as an officer of the Anglo-Italian Society. For the last 15 years of her life she conducted the research and writing required to produce Such Fruits Out of Italy. She passed away in May 2011 in her native Mantua.

I'm one of those with a serious armchair interest in the Oxford Shakespeare argument, and I appreciate books like this one from a thorough-going academic who's willing to sweat the details. ... This short book by Fox helped my understanding in two major ways. First, its thorough chapter on Tudor schools gave me a clearer perspective on the fairly certain education of Oxford and the possible education of Stratford Shakespeare. ... Second, I greatly appreciated Fox's careful discussion of Oxford's fortune and why it disappeared, in the context of a major social/political shift that took off with Henry VII and that led to the draining on not only the Oxford fortune but of other noble wealth in land. ... Fox ties this aspect of Oxford's life also closely with the plays, especially Timon of Athens. There's lots more in the book, and lots of good leads for still further reading.
Alan Venable on amazon.com

Fox contends that the works attributed to William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Veré, the Earl of Oxford, and supports his argument by careful analysis of the works of Shakespeare, especially passages related to schools and teaching and what they might suggest about the education of the author.
Nicholas Graham, Library Journal

World-renowned anthropologist Robin Fox turns his analytic eye on the Shakespeare authorship issue, and asks and answers some stark questions. He attacks some shibboleths on both sides of the debate, and comes to his own conclusions. Robin Fox is an anthropologist and historian of ideas, and is University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University. Educated at the London School of Economics, Harvard and Stanford University, he did research with Pueblo Indians, Irish islanders and Macaque monkeys in the Caribbean. He founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers in 1967 (among the top ten in the U.S.) and was for twelve years a director of research for the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation with Lionel Tiger, co-author of The Imperial Animal. His Kinship and Marriage is one of the most consulted social science texts in the world. His latest book is The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind (Harvard UP). (www.robin-fox.com)

Face reality on this »Prince Tudor« business
Peter R. Moore

11. 3. 1928
Wien, IX. Berggasse 19.
Dear [Ernest] Jones
[...] Ich stehe wieder unter dem Eindruck eines Buches, das ich nach einem Jahr zum zweiten Mal gelesen. Ein Buch eines Mannes Looney, Shakespeare Identified, 1920 in Amerika veröffentlicht, aber der Autor ist offenbar Engländer. Darin wird Edwarde de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, als der Verfasser von Shakespeare’s Lyrik und Dramen wahrscheinlich gemacht. Ich war bisher überzeugter Stratfordianer und habe besonders die Baconhypothese als unsinning abgewiesen. Aber jetzt, muß ich bekennen, bin ich durch Looney’s Ermittlungen sehr beeindruckt, fast überzeugt. Wenn dieser Aristokrat, von dessen Leben viel bekannt ist und noch mehr bekanntwerden kann, wirklich Shakesp. ist, dann haben wir an unseren analytischen Konstruktionen manches abzuändern, vielleicht manches auch zu gewinnen. Es wäre doch das Interesse eines Analytikers wert, sich um diese Sache anzunehmen. Welche Aufnahme hat das Buch von Looney in England gefunden? Wie hat man sich zu der merkwürdigen Aufklärung der Sonette u. a. verhalten? Möchten Sie nicht nachforschen, ob sich auf der neuen Annahme eine verläßliche Analyse Shakesp’s aufbauen läßt? [...]
Ihr Freud

I urge everyone who cares about the Authorship Question to get it while you can! Get it, read it, and talk about it! Whether your interest is to acquire a deeper understanding of some of the more knotty issues or to argue effectively with Stratfordians, Peter Moore is your man, for no one has ever put the argument more succinctly. Stephanie Hughes

This book should form an essential part of every Oxfordian’s library: many of its conclusions force ‘orthodox’ opinions into logically impossible distortions. ... Gary Goldstein’s deep care and attention as editor and Uwe Laugwitz’s enthusiasm for the production and publishing of the project are some compensation for the loss of the diamond brain of Peter Moore. Richard Malim

The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised publishes more than two dozen papers and monographs that originally appeared in peer reviewed journals in Europe and the United States from 1993 to 2006.
It is the testament of one of the most brilliant Shakespeare scholars of his generation.