Greetings
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on November 29, 2009
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Pimpernel Smith and the Earl of Oxford
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on March 6, 2010
Leslie Howard’s classic anti-Nazi film, after being widely available on vhs in the late 1990s, appears to be out of print again except for this Spanish version (good for the Spanish!) on Amazon. Still, fair use doctrine has its uses, and I’ve managed despite my technological incompetence to break out a few relevant clips, which I’ve always thought to use in a short YouTube on Oxford.
Alas, I can’t easily seem to find the time for such an ambitious project.
Meanwhile, however, I’ve had some requests to see Howard live on the internet. Howard’s character does an inimitably charming and comical send-up of Nazi pretensions. Moreover, his comments are still relevant to those reactionary folk who in 2010 still seem to think that insinuating that anti-Stratfordians are the moral and intellectual equivalent of “holocaust deniers” edifies their own preening sense of self worth. For this and other reasons, the film has become a cult classic among the Oxfordians.
So, without further ado, here’s Leslie Howard (who produced as well as starred in the film), in persona “Horatio” Smith, on Shakespeare and Oxford (clip #1):
Bubbles for Ever?
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on March 6, 2010
This new video-musical collage, posted to “Under the Radar” under the title “Mind Thoughts,” goes in Oxfordville (where you can also find my Cape Cod with the white picket fence) under the charming alternative title, “Bubbles for Ever.”
Some, you see, have marveled how its author, “Edward de Vere,” can still be writing musical video, four-hundred-and-six years after his decease.
When I wondered that out loud to myself on Utube, my comment was speedily deleted by the censors (apparently not the brightest stars in the firmament), who may have taken it for a death threat against Sam Handley from An Emerald City, who seems to be the agent provocateur responsible for channeling this modern gem by the long-dead “no longer mourn for me when I am gone” Edward.
Greetings in the Spring
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on March 5, 2010
The snow is nearly melted in Baltimore, and after a full week’s redress from the busy schedule of classes at Coppin State University, during which we huddled next to the heaters while the February blizzard pounded us for several days, or so it seemed, we are by now almost poised for spring break. In the long interim between my last post and this one, much has transpired.
I want first to say “thank you” to the visitors who have come, even if for a brief time, to visit my site. Quite a number of you have actually registered, which is lovely, and a few less shy than others have even offered some pingbacks, emails, or commentaries to let me know you’ve read. (more…)
Waugaman in Notes and Queries: Psalms Marked in De Vere Bible Influenced Shakespeare
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on January 13, 2010
Don’t look now, but literary scholar and psychoanalyst Richard Waugaman has published an intriguing new chapter in the ongoing study of the de Vere Geneva Bible.
Waugaman’s article, “The Sternhold and Whole Book of the Psalms is a Major Source for the Works of Shakespeare,” appears in the December 2009 issue of Notes and Queries. (more…)
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Roger Stritmatter
Roger Stritmatter is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Coppin State University and the General Editor of Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies.Polls
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