This Saturday, Jan. 28, a unique party, the brainchild of a super-fan of Oxfordian discourse, is coming to an as-yet undisclosed townhouse in the West Village—the second iteration of the Edward De Vere Winter Ball, “a celebration of the true William Shakespeare.”
The event is sold out, but its organizer, filmmaker and writer Phoebe Nir, is an impassioned promoter of discourse surrounding “the authorship question:” a debate over who’s actually responsible for masterworks like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet that once riled up heavyweights like Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and Helen Keller.
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