Roger Stritmatter | October 31, 2011
You’d think that it might be enough, in the words of the Slate magazine’s inimitable cult-crit specialist Ron Rosenbaum, “to remain silent in the face of [the] stupidity [of] this…. culture-destroying ugliness.” Or that it would suffice us to be enlightened, as Wesley Morris at the Boston Globe instructs us, that “Roland Emmerich destroys things [...]
hewardwilkinson | October 31, 2011
We are pleased to offer another guest post from Dr. Heward Wilkinson. His previous post, on Professor Shapiro’s use of the concept of “imagination,” may be found here. -Ed Our modern canons of rational textual criticism slowly emerged during the roughly four centuries of what we call the Mediaeval Age, from around 1050 to 1450, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 30, 2011
Michael Witmore, the new director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, is interviewed by the L.A. Times in this exceptionally fair October 27 L.A. Times article by Rebecca Keegan. Considering some of the outlandish attacks that have come from the Birthplace Trust, from James Shapiro, and from other representatives of the orthodox view, Dr. Witmore’s remarks [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 30, 2011
Not really. Gotcha! However, with Anonymous packing at least some theatres, moving some audience members to tears, and prompting spontaneous applause by others, the Stratfordian thought control machine has gone into overdrive. One of the machine’s strongest arguments is that the Authorship Question began only 150 years ago. Those anachronistic romantics looked back at Shakespeare [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 29, 2011
The Shakespeare Authorship Trust, a British educational foundation dedicated to exploring the authorship question (including adherents of multiple views) has announced the premiere of Last Will and Testament, the 1604 Productions documentary film produced to accompany Anonymous. The ninety minute documentary film “explores the evolution of the authorship question since Shakespeare’s time, with particular reference [...]
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