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 are quite [...]

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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,  it [...]

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Roger Stritmatter | December 18, 2009

The astonishing statement at the recent Globe Theatre symposium on authorship by Graham Holderness, Shakespearean professor at  the University of Herfordshire, that
If you were to construct a biography which ticked all the boxes – if you were to read Shakespeare’s plays and infer a biography from it – it wouldn’t be Rowe’s, it would actually [...]

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Roger Stritmatter | December 17, 2009

Brief Chronicles board member Dr. Richard Waugaman, MD, has published an overtly Oxfordian article, “A Psychoanalytical Study of Edward de Vere’s Tempest,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 37: 4 (2009), 627-644.
According to Waugaman’s abstract,
There is now abundant evidence that Freud was correct in believing Edward de Vere (1550-1604) [...]

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