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Roger Stritmatter — Oxfrauds, Misfits, & the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Shakespearean Discourse

‘O What a Tangled Web’: Oxfrauds, Misfits, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 21st Century Shakespearean Discourse Making use of the wit and wisdom of the American satirist and post-Stratfordian Mark Twain, this lecture examines the unholy alliance connecting the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) through the Birthplace’s online contractee, The Misfits (https://www.studiomisfit.co/; https://misfit.co/), to the online special interest and anti-Oxfordian group known as the “Oxfrauds.” Following the Misfit playbook, the Oxfrauds seem to believe that implied threats of violence and public shaming against skeptics are a legitimate way to discuss Shakespeare. Up until now, they have been tolerated on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Amazon reviews. Using online clips, screenshots, and other non-traditional documentary sources, the lecture examines the strategic nexus, including public endorsements by former SBT Trustee and affiliate Sir Jonathan Bate, an Oxford University Professor and former provost of Worcester College, that links the SBT to the “Oxfrauds.” As numerous statements attest, these overlapping organizations share a primary mission to counter Oxfordian discoveries, misrepresent the historical record about the authorship question, sow chaos in online discussion forums, and generally conduct an organized smear campaign against persons sympathetic to the post-Stratfordian or Oxfordian argument. This talk was presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Hartford, CT on October 19, 2019. Roger A. Stritmatter is a Professor of Humanities and Literature at Coppin State University who has studied the Shakespeare question for almost thirty years. He has been a member of the Shakespeare Oxford Society since 1990 and became a founding member of the Shakespeare Fellowship in 2000. With Gary Goldstein, in 2009, he established Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies and served as general editor 2009-2016. The 2017 fourth edition of the Index to Oxfordian Publications identifies 116 authorship related articles by him (1990-2017), many in orthodox academic journals, including The Shakespeare Yearbook, Review of English Studies, Notes and Queries, Critical Survey, and (with R. Waugaman) the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. He is the author, with Lynne Kositsky, of On the Date, Sources, and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (McFarland 2013) and, with Alexander Waugh, A New Shakespeare Allusion Book: Literary Allusions to Shakespeare, 1584-1786 from Historical Principles (forthcoming, 2020) and has appeared in two authorship documentaries, Last Will. And Testament (2012) and Nothing is Truer than Truth (2018).