Welcome, University Readers…..

| October 28, 2011

The Universities are coming. Within the last twenty-four hours, coincident with a huge general upsurge in traffic (a subject for another post) over the last several days, we have  hosted traffic  –direct, ip validated traffic —  from the following academic venues (some of them — which ones is classified! —  for multiple visits): Georgia Southern [...]

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What The Anonymous Help Can Teach Us about Shakespeare

| October 28, 2011

Like many moviegoers, I was thrilled this past summer to see The Help, a movie that — maybe not by intent — has a lot to say about Shakespeare.  This finely entertaining and socially provocative film, based on a novel by Kathryn Stockett (rejected in manuscript by 60 publishers before going on to become an [...]

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Rowing the Sea of Disinformation

| October 27, 2011

William J. Ray has previously appeared on this website only through quotation. I am pleased to feature his writing at greater length in this series of missives, some of which were censored in other contexts. -Ed. Since studying the question of who wrote the Shakespeare canon, I have found in current letters a good deal [...]

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John Thomas Looney Speaks from the Grave

| October 27, 2011

In 1948 Columbia Professor O.J. Campbell, a much more formidable and substantive intellect than either Mr. Marche or Professor Shapiro, at long last reviewed J. Thomas Looney’s Shakespeare Identified (1920) in the page of Harper’s. It was an event of some importance.  How many books do you know that are “reviewed” with the aim to refute them twenty-eight [...]

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Kier Cutler Strikes Back

| October 26, 2011

By Kier Cutler, PhD (English) I am a “crackpot.” More accurately, I have a “psychological aberration.” I am also “ignorant,” “a snob” and “a publicity hound.” I “have a poor sense of logic,” “refuse to accept evidence,” and am “certifiably mad.” I am “pursuing a poisonous, insidious agenda.” Who calls me (and people like me) [...]

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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).