Roger Stritmatter | March 28, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/McCarter-t.html (April 29, 2010) http://www.nypl.org/node/66278 (April 7, 2010)
Manna from Heaven
Roger Stritmatter | March 29, 2011
As regular readers are aware, I have been holding off from making use of any of the many photos from the de Vere Bible in my possession until such time as I could cover the fees requested by the Folger Library for their use. As fate would have it, a long delayed package arrived today [...]
Cordelia’s Undersong: An Oxfordian Riddle
Roger Stritmatter | March 19, 2011
This is a riddle. Gather and surmise; the questions are at the end. Here’s the text: Lear. [to Regan] To thee and thine hereditary ever Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom; No less in space, validity, and pleasure, Than that conferr’d on Goneril. Now, our joy, Although the last, not least; to whose [...]
In Praise of Honest Stratfordians (Part II)
Roger Stritmatter | March 18, 2011
Logan Pearsall Smith: Shakespeare has become “almost a national industry.” Ok, I can already hear the replies to the previous post, “In Praise of Honest Stratfordians, Part I.” “Charles Dickens wasn’t a Shakespearean scholar, he was just a Victorian novelist. He knew nothing about Elizabethan England and didn’t even have a PhD in Literary Studies….” [...]
In Praise of Honest Stratfordians (Part I)
Roger Stritmatter | March 18, 2011
Charles Dickens: “The life of Shakespeare is a Fine Mystery, and I tremble every day lest something turn up.” Defenders of the orthodox view of Shakespearean authorship draw more and more attention to themselves these days through their incapacity to sustain a rational debate and ready recourse to straw man or ad hominem arguments, [...]
Keir Cutler PhD: "Is Shakespeare Dead?" "A magnificently witty performance!" (Winnipeg Sun). "Highly entertaining and engrossing!" (EYE Weekly). "Is Shakespeare Dead? marshals startling facts into an elegant and often tenacious argument that floats on a current of delicious irony" (Montreal Gazette). |
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