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All's Well That Ends Well: Inspired by Anne Cecil? (Earl Showerman)

This talk by Earl Showerman was presented on September 20, 2025, at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in New Haven, Connecticut, which focused largely on women and the authorship question. In addition to liking, sharing, and subscribing to our YT channel (see links below), sign up for our FREE email list: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/ Join the SOF! We have free or discounted rates for students and teachers! You can check out this 30-minute introduction to “Who Really Wrote Shakespeare?”:    • Who Really Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare ...   The best concise overview on the internet is our SOF “Authorship 101” page (“12 Reasons to Question Who Wrote Shakespeare”): https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.o... Earl Showerman spoke on “Parallel Lives of Shakespeare’s Helena and Oxford’s Anne.” Helena is a central character in All’s Well That Ends Well. Showerman believes that the work, which he called “Shakespeare’s Miracle play,” was likely written shortly after the death of Oxford’s first wife, Anne Cecil, in 1588 at age 31, and that it may have been staged c. 1590–92. Helena and Anne have much in common: they are interested in medicine (medical “empiricists”), they write poetry, they are close to their mothers, they are regarded as spiritual persons, and, perhaps most coincidentally, both had participated (or in Anne’s case, was rumored to have) in the “bed trick” (i.e., the husband thinks he’s having a dalliance with a paramour, but in fact his wife has arranged to be in the bed instead). Helena has four soliloquies in AWTW, the most of any of Shakespeare’s female characters, and Showerman sees the play as a memorial or apologia to Oxford’s late wife. Dr. Earl Showerman, is a past president of the SOF, graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Medical School, and practiced emergency medicine in southern Oregon for 30 years. After retiring in 2003, he enrolled at Southern Oregon University to study Shakespeare. Over the past two decades he has presented and published scholarly papers on a variety of topics, including the Greek dramatic sources of Hamlet, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Much Ado about Nothing, Timon of Athens, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is the author of a chapter on Shakespeare’s medical knowledge in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? (2013), contributed three essays to Know-It-All Shakespeare (2017), edited by Ros Barber, and most recently self-published Shakespeare’s Greater Greek, a compilation of 20 years of research. He is the executive producer of the first collection of songs related to Edward de Vere, My Lord of Oxenford’s Mask, by the lute duet Mignarda (2006).