Description: Julius Caesar, a Tragedy, Small Quarto London:  Printed for Henry Herringman and Richard Bentley, 1691. This is a rare Fifth Edition of this celebrated Play.  It contains the cast which includes female actors placing it clearly after the Restoration.
	Title Page, New York: This engraving is from the "Complete Works of Shakespeare" published in 1861 by Johnson, Fry &  Company. The steel engravings are typical of those used by most publishers of Shakespearean Collections in the Victorian Era.

A rare, large transferware tureen tray depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Tempest.

A close-up of the above tray, color more accurate.

A wonderful Derby Porcelain figural depicting Falstaff  C. 1760

A whimsical late 18th Century Derby Porcelain interpretation of
the Shakespeare Memorial in Westminster Abbey.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.-Prospero, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1

The memorial statue to William Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey, The Poet's Corner.
It contains a partial quote of  from the famous lines by Prospero in The Tempest. Many believe that this was
William Shakespeare's last play and that this is how he announced it to the world.  Others do not.*

Parian Bust of William Shakespeare Circa1860

Two 19th Century Oak Carvings of Characters from Shakespeare

We are active members in the Oxfordian Society, a group of like minded people who believe,
through intense research, that the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere was the true author of most,
if not all of the writings attributed to William Shakespeare. 

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Founded in 1957, the Shakespeare Oxford Society is a non-profit, educational organization
dedicated to exploring the Shakespeare authorship question and researching the evidence
that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 – 1604) is the true author of
the poems and plays of “William Shakespeare.”- Mission Statement from the
Oxfordian Society.*

The Oxfordian hypothesis accepts the historical documents which establish that
William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was an actor, a sharer in the
Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men, and a shareholder in the Globe and
Blackfriars theatres, but posits that internal evidence in the plays indicates
that Edward De Vere (1550-1604), 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the Shakespeare canon, and
that from the publication of Greene's Groatsworth of Wit in 1592, Shakespeare of Stratford was
Oxford's front man for the purpose of getting Oxford's plays into the public theatres. Oxford was
known in his own time as an accomplished poet and playwright. His contemporary literary reputation
thus suggests that he wrote much more than the few extant poems which bear his name.
In addition to the Shakespeare canon, some of the anonymous and pseudonymous
Elizabethan works which may have been written by Oxford.**

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*The Oxford Society
**The Oxford Authorship Site.