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 [...]
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 [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 16, 2009
When I saw the candle in the “lunatic fringe” theme, I knew it was the theme for me….after all, here we are, dear reader, on the extremest verge of hypothetically rational thought, being assailed by every last pop psychologist in the phone book as nutcases for not accepting the “divine William,” as Herman Melville sardonically [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 15, 2009
Editors of the Shakespeare Fellowship’s new online peer reviewed scholarly journal of authorship studies, Brief Chronicles, are pleased to announce that six new distinguished scholars have joined the journal’s team of editorial consultants, which now numbers twelve in all. The new members include a Research Professor in Economics from the University of Hertfordshire, a specialist [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 15, 2009
An excerpt from a longer work in progress: The leading theme of the entire Shakespearean canon, manifest in myriad ways in all the plays, and vital to the plots of many, is the discrepancy between visible but erroneous appearances and hidden but ultimately substantive truths. This single thematic preoccupation – one might even call it, [...]
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