SAT History

Past

During the year 2007 The SAT has achieved the following:

With the generous assistance of £30,000 from a major donor, we were able to fund the research and reconstructions of the possible clothing of four authorship candidates: William Shakspere, Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon, and Mary Sidney. The clothing was designed and constructed by the world's leading specialist in Elizabethan and Jacobean clothing, Ms Jenny Tiramani. The SAT loaned the clothes to the theatre production of The BIG Secret Live 'I Am Shakespeare' Webcam Daytime Chat-Room Show. The clothes will be employed by The SAT in its forthcoming interactive exhibition on the authorship question. Trustees of The SAT also advised on the characterisation of the authorship candidates in 'I Am Shakespeare'.
On the 8 September The SAT helped to organise a special gathering of all authorship societies at The Minerva Theatre in Chichester, where a poster size copy of The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt was unveiled by Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance and given to Brunel University. The Declaration had been signed by representatives of the following societies: The De Vere Society, The Francis Bacon Society, The Francis Bacon Research Trust, The Marlowe Society, The Shakespearean Authorship Trust and Brunel University. Shakespeare's

We loaned our collection of books on the authorship to Brunel University in London, in support of its unique MA course in Shakespeare Authorship Studies which commenced in Autumn 2007. We hope the course will enable wider access to the collection for the general public, researchers and scholars.
In partnership with Brunel University, The SAT organised four lectures held in November at Shakespeare's Globe, London. This is the second year of these John Silberrad Memorial Lectures on authorship, commemorating our friend and fellow trustee who died in 2005 and bequeathed The SAT a legacy of £10,000.
John's legacy also enabled us to launch our Website. Designed to function as a crossroads for researchers and casual enquirers, it introduces the major candidates and others as well, recommends books, gives news of events and provides links to many researching organisations.

In the past few years The Shakespearean Authorship Trust has:

Loaned our Library to the Faculty and students of Brunel University in support of their unique MA course in Authorship Studies.
Initiated the John Silberrad Memorial Lecture Series in collaboration with the Friends of Shakespeare's Globe.
Organised three conferences at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2003, 2004, 2005 on the authorship of Richard II, Measure for Measure and Collaboration.
Created an Authorship panel for the Exhibition at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, introducing visitors to Marlowe, Oxford and Bacon as authorship candidates, as well as sharing some fundamental questions of Shakespeare authorship research.
Donated funds to the Marlowe Society for their remarkable memorial to Marlowe in Westminster Abbey.
Created an authorship page with the Globe for the Globe Theatre's programme.
Established contact with John Hudson researching Amelia Lanyer as author.

Made a formal agreement with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to house a collection of authorship books on permanent loan in the Globe's Library. This will enable much wider access for the general public and individual researcher.
Funded the authorship research of a Ukrainian University student, Kateryna Sinkevich, during her visit to Britain.
Established contact with Professor Gililov in Moscow, who researched evidence of the involvement of the Earl of Rutland, Roger Manners.
Established contact with Ms Robin Williams of New Mexico who has published Sweet Swan of Avon, a book about Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. In 2004 we invited Ms Williams to speak at our conference in London.
Contributed to the research at the Edward de Vere Studies at Concordia University, USA. We also invited Professor Daniel Wright of Concordia University to address our 2005 conference at the Globe.