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A Wedding Joust in Trebizond: Commedia Erudita and Sinister Politics in 1575

Based on the Summer 2018 SOF Newsletter article of this title by W. Ron Hess and Dr. Jan Scheffer, which derived from an appendix to Hess’ unpublished Vol. III to The Dark Side of Shakespeare, their conference presentation introduces “Commedia Erudita” (Learned or Erudite Comedy, or what the authors term “Palace Comedy”), and show that it was far more likely than the lower-class Commedia dell’Arte to have influenced Shakespeare’s Comedies. The key is the importance to Shakespeare of “dialogue,” which was trending toward non-existent in multilingual dell’Arte, while it thrived in Shakespeare’s time in Palace or Manor venues.

This talk was presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Oakland, CA on October 12, 2018.

The late W. Ron Hess was a retired civil servant with an MS in Computer Sciences. He taught IT Security at various night schools in the Washington, D.C. area, including an extension center of Johns Hopkins University Graduate School. He became an Oxfordian in 1991 after attending the 1987 Moot Court debate (Oxford vs. Shakspere) at his alumnus, American University. Ron published numerous articles in Oxfordian and other journals, as well as his two-volume trilogy The Dark Side of Shakespeare (2002 and 2003). Although the third volume was nearly complete in 2005, he held back from publishing it and began publishing articles and giving speeches from its many components, including the article on “A Marriage Joust in Trebizond” in the Summer 2018 SOF Newsletter, which involved collaboration with Dr. Jan Scheffer, Dr. A. Colin Wright, and Dr. Concetta Thibideau. In 2003, he joined Joe Sobran and Katherine Chiljan in an all-day “Panels Debate” at the Smithsonian Institute vs. Dr. Alan Nelson, Dr. Steven May, and author Irvin Matus before an audience of over 250, which also included a Preamble and an Epilogue delivered by Diana Price.

Dr. Jan Scheffer was trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist at the University of Utrecht and subsequently as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. He practiced forensic psychiatry for twenty-five years and served in various offices in the psychoanalytical community. After his introduction to Ogburn’s The Mysterious William Shakespeare in 1994, he joined the De Vere Society in 1995 and the SOF in 2015. In 2004-2007, he organized four authorship conferences in the Netherlands. Since 2010 he has been a board member of the New German Shakespeare Society, and was instrumental in publishing Robert Detobel’s The Concealed Poet. He presented a paper at the 2015 Ashland conference titled “Oxford Captured by Pirates.” He lives with his family in Utrecht and continues his psychoanalytical practice.