Roger Stritmatter | December 22, 2009
In addition to a handful of recent blogs, the site’s architectural features have been developed quite a bit since the last update. The highlights include the following new pages or sections: Forensics Board Certified Forensic Analysis of the de Vere Bible annotations Oxford’s Handwriting Sample Publications My Washington Post article Shakespeare’s Missing Personality – review [...]
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Roger Stritmatter | December 21, 2009
As some readers are aware, a question lurks over the de Vere Bible: who is responsible for the handwriting — and therefore the underlining and other notations – it contains? Contradictory statements by some scholars dedicated to the traditional view of Shakespearean authorship have confused the issue. In the coming weeks, therefore, I will be [...]
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Roger Stritmatter | December 20, 2009
In this article, “The Shakespeare Authorship Question: A Suitable Subject for Academia,” which first appeared in Concordia University’s Discovering Shakespeare: A Festschrift in Honor of Isabel Holden (2009), William Leahy, Shakespearean scholar, poet, and fiction writer at Brunel University (and editor of Elizabethan Triumphal Processions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), recounts his journey from being a “true [...]
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Roger Stritmatter | December 19, 2009
Dear Reader, I am tonight starting a new series in the blog section of this website. It’s going to be called “unsung heroes.” Each brief entry will focus on a particular individual who has made some special contribution to our collective knowledge of Shakespeare or the Shakespearean question. The entries will be short — there [...]
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Roger Stritmatter | December 18, 2009
Those who have followed the authorship scuttlebutt over an extended period know that Roland Emmerich, director of such Blockbuster movies as Independence Day, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, has for some years been planning to produce a movie on the Shakespearean question. “On hold” for an extended period due to Emmerich’s other projects, [...]
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