Roger Stritmatter | June 15, 2011
“Shakespeare lived a life of allegory. His works are comments on it.” These words by John Keats, perhaps the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, distill the essence of authentic Shakespearean biography — as distinct from the seemingly never-ending parade of sham biographies inflicted year after year on an unsuspecting public. In 21st century literary circles [...]
Roger Stritmatter | June 12, 2011
Sometimes Marx – Groucho I mean – is the best authority. In the early days of the internet (1994-2000) there was much authorship discussion on various listserves and EBBs like the Usenet Shakespeare Authorship discussion forum, now a Google group that in the age of blogging has become a virtual wasteland. The Google group archives do, [...]
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