The Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable has held meetings
in and around Los Angeles for 40 years.
2025 - 2026
Shakespeare &. Queen Bess: Is There A Shakespeare Canon Without Her?
Phoebe Nir & Linds Gray: The Next Generation of Doubters
Ron Destro : The Authorship Question Through the Lens of Literary Fiction
Peter Hodges and Dennis McCarthy: Debate Regarding Thomas North's Likely Authorship of Romeo & Juliet
Whole Season Available on YouTube
2024 - 2025
3 Speaker Event: Shakespeare & Religion: The Elephant in the Writers' Room
Deena Lindstedt: Elizabeth (Ely) Trentham, A Shakespeare's Life of her Own
Dorothea Dickerman: Never Trust a Cecil! William Cecil, Lord Burghley and the SAQ
Robert Prechter::Identifying the Truly Pioneering English Female Writers o
Whole Season Available on YouTube
Tomoosnam, Peter Hodges, Sally Gibbins
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
Bonner Miller Cutting: J. Thomas Looney Centennial
Earl Showerman Shakespeare's Greater Greek
John Yeomans: The Countess of Pembroke and the Sonnets
John Hamill: The Dark Lady: Southampton, Devereux & Devere
Michael Blanding & Dennis McCarthy: The Thomas North Candidacy
Whole Season Available on YouTube
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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
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