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"Shakespeare was for all time because he was for his own age, with an intensity blazing so fiercely that it illuminates the far future. He remains real because he spoke so truthfully of, from and for his own experience, in his own person. That touch of nature suffuses his work throughout its various aspects and genres, whether comedy, history or tragedy, poetry or prose. He writes always of the here and now, never of the there and then."

(The Real Shakespeare II, p. 59)

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WORKS ON SHAKESPEARE II

(previously unpublished materials provided by Audrey Twine and Richard Sams)

n) essays and reviews o) word-lists and notes p) lectures q) interviews

r) letters s) The Real Shakespeare II: earlier chapter drafts

N)	ESSAYS AND REVIEWS (unpubd.)
	[see also m.25a and m.73a]

1.	Shakespeare's Handwriting in the British Library's Landsowne MS 71, 14 April 1981
	[Eric Sams's first essay on Shakespeare] [.PDF]
2.	Shakespeare's Handwriting [Abstract of argument - Letter of 24 November 1981] [.PDF]
3.	The influence of Marlowe on Shakespeare [.PDF]
4.	Criteria for Collected Editions of Shakespeare [unfinished]
5.	Shakespeare and the Emperor’s Clothes [.PDF]
6.	Essay on 'Memorial Reconstruction' [unfinished] [.PDF]
7.	Edward III, Edmund Ironside ad the Editorial Establishment [.PDF]
8.	Fingerprints from Shakespeare’s Hand? - I
9.	Fingerprints from Shakespeare’s Hand? - II [.PDF]
10.	The Tragical History of Shakespeare Scholarship since 1928 [.PDF]
11.	Shakespeare’s Capital Letters
	(a) first version [.PDF]
	(b) second, unfinished version [.PDF]
12.	Shakespeare’s Spelling [.PDF]
13.	Variability as a criterion of Shakespeare's authorship: the first (1600) edition of 'King Henry V' [.PDF]
14.	Counting Wilkins Out [.PDF]
15.	Comments on MacD Jackson, 'George Wilkins' and the First Two Acts of 'Pericles':
	New 'Evidence' from Function Words [.PDF]
16.	On the use of Thisted & Efron's technique to determine authorship (with Robert A. J. Matthews)
17.	Richard III 1597, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616): a quatercentenary contribution, 1997 [.PDF]
18.	Romeo and Juliet Q1 1597: a quatercentenary reappraisal, 1997 [.PDF]
19.	Spellings in 'Sir Thomas More' (Hand M) and 'Edward III' [.PDF]
20.	Othello and King Leir [unfinished]
21.	Who was the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets? [a different version from L.72] [.PDF]
22.	Shakespeare’s Hand Throughout 'Edward III' 1596 [.PDF]
23.	Historical evidence and the authorship of 'Pericles' I-II
	(a) first version [.PDF]
	(b) second version [.PDF]
24.	Shakespeare Attribution by Rare-Word-Association, 1999 [see also O.1] [.PDF]
25.	Edmund Ironside revisited [.PDF]

O) WORD-LISTS AND NOTES

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1.	Shakespeare's words in Edmund Ironside [.PDF]
2.	Notes on Samuel Schoenbaum
3.	Shakespeare in the Public Record Office HMSO 1985 [.PDF]
4.	London Acquaintance/Stratford Kinsfolk and Friends

P) LECTURES

1.	The Lost Years [A paper given at the Shakespeare Institute, 4 nov. 1982]

Q) INTERVIEWS

1.	Arthur Maltby interviews Eric Sams on Shakespeare, 2003 (with two letters)

R)	LETTERS ON SHAKESPEARE
	[see also the letters to and from Nieves Hayat de Madariaga Mathews]

1.	The "Shakespeare's Signatures querelle" (Letters 1985-1989)
	1. Letters to Jane Cox [.PDF]
	2. Letters to the Public Record Office [.PDF]
2.	Letter to Gary Taylor, 13 February 1986 [see m.14]
3.	Charles Hamilton: Letter to Eric Sams (on Shakespeare's handwriting in Ironside), 13 August 1986 [.PDF]
4.	Letter to the Guardian (on Shakespeare's Will), 23 September 1986
	[.PDF with handwritten annotations by E.S.]
5.	"Clearly you need an Ironside tonic..." [Letters to Tom Merriam], 1986-1992
	1.	14 Nov. 1986
	2.	25 Nov. 1986
	3.	3 Jan. 1987
	4.	19 Feb. 1991
	5.	15 March 1992
6.	Reply to Wells [Letter to the Editor of the Oxford Magazine], 28 November 1987 [see m.23]
7.	"...The Shaming of the True would be a justifiable title..." [Letter to Glenn Black], 13 April 1992
8.	Letters to the Editors of Shakespeare Newsletter [with thoughts on H. Jenkins' Hamlet edition],
	May/September 1992
9.	Letter to Peter Beal [on Shakespeare and Essex], 20 November 1992
10.	Letter to Alan Hollinghurst, 30 November 1992
11.	Letter to M.W.A. Smith, 7 December 1992
12.	Letter to David Thomas, 25 September 1995
13.	3 Letters to Katherine Duncan-Jones, November-December 1996
14.	Letter to Giorgio Melchiori, 6 August 1998
15.	Letters to Uwe Laugwitz
	1.	8 Oct. 1998 [.PDF]
	2.	On the name 'Hamlet' (see M.73) [.PDF]
	3.	"Eric Sams ist kein Oxfordianer..." (with a letter-fragment) [.PDF]
	4.	28 Apr. 1999, with an obit by Dr. Uwe Laugwitz
	(in German, first facsimile edition in Neues Shake-speare Journal, Band XI, 2007; .PDF)
16.	Letter to Ward Elliott, 5 June 1999
17.	Shakespeare and OED [Letters to Y.L. Warburton], 1999-2001 [.PDF]
18.	The Lancashire-theory [Letters to John Idris Jones], 1995-2002

S)	THE REAL SHAKESPEARE II (see J.2): EARLIER CHAPTER DRAFTS
	(a= first draft; b= second draft)	top

1.	Introduction
2.	Foreword
2a.	The Personal Shakespeare
4a.	Shakespeare and Kyd: 1589-94
7a.	The True Tragedy of Richard III
9a.	The Shakespeare Coat of Arms c.1576-1596
10a.	London Lodgings
11a.	The Asbies Litigation 1579-1597
12a.	Richard II 1595-7
12b.	Richard II 1597
13b.	Richard III: by 1597
14a.	Romeo and Juliet c.1591-1597
14b.	Romeo and Juliet c.1591-1597
15a.	The Two Gentlemen of Verona: by 1598
16a.	Love's Labour's Lost, by 1598
16b.	Love's Labour's Lost: 1598-
17b.	The Famous Victories of Henry V
23a.	Shakespeare, Southampton, Essex, Elizabeth and Richard II 1595-1601
24a.	The Merry Wives of Windsor 1602
24b.	The Merry Wives of Windsor
25a.	The Lear Plays

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