Ezekiel 16.49 and the State of 21st Century Shakespearean Studies

| April 22, 2011

Something is rotten in the state –Hamlet One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. –A.A. Milne I began with a desire, common enough in my profession, to speak with the dead. Much to my surprise, and much against my will, they spoke back. To my dismay, I [...]

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Warning: Off Topic Post, Music on North Avenue, Baltimore. English Professors, Do Not Read.

| April 20, 2011

A student walked into my office yesterday because she overheard my music. There was in her curiosity an eagerness to learn something that most college professors, me included, would like to experience more often. Apparently is now the number one source of music enjoyment in the world. And why not?

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“It is Not I”: Sin, Authorship, and Will in Shakespeare and St. Paul

| April 11, 2011

O if (I say) you look upon this verse, When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse; But let your love even with my life decay. Least the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone. (Sonnet 71) From [...]

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Charles Beauclerk on Shapiro’s “Imagination”

| April 4, 2011

Shapiro “confuses imagination with fantasy……”

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Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: An Exceptional Review

| April 4, 2011

Marie Merkel’s newly posted review of Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, “Much Virtue In ‘If’” is among the best — fairest and most insightful — commentaries so far written on the book.  Congratulations, Marie!

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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).