Roger Stritmatter | January 3, 2010
This blog is the second entry in my “Unsung Heroes” Series: it is dedicated to William Plumer Fowler (1901-1993) — poet, lawyer, and Shakespearean heretic.
From its inception in 1920, the case for Oxford’s authorship of the Shakespearean canon has been supported by stylistic analysis of the poetry and prose surviving under de Vere’s own name.
In [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 20, 2009
In this article, “The Shakespeare Authorship Question: A Suitable Subject for Academia,” which first appeared in Concordia University’s Discovering Shakespeare: A Festschrift in Honor of Isabel Holden (2009), William Leahy, Shakespearean scholar, poet, and fiction writer at Brunel University (and editor of Elizabethan Triumphal Processions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), recounts his journey from being a “true [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 19, 2009
Dear Reader,
I am tonight starting a new series in the blog section of this website. It’s going to be called “unsung heroes.” Each brief entry will focus on a particular individual who has made some special contribution to our collective knowledge of Shakespeare or the Shakespearean question.
The entries will be short — there are quite [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 18, 2009
Those who have followed the authorship scuttlebutt over an extended period know that Roland Emmerich, director of such Blockbuster movies as Independence Day, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, has for some years been planning to produce a movie on the Shakespearean question.
“On hold” for an extended period due to Emmerich’s other projects, it [...]
Roger Stritmatter | December 18, 2009
The astonishing statement at the recent Globe Theatre symposium on authorship by Graham Holderness, Shakespearean professor at the University of Herfordshire, that
If you were to construct a biography which ticked all the boxes – if you were to read Shakespeare’s plays and infer a biography from it – it wouldn’t be Rowe’s, it would actually [...]
Cutler debunks the still-living myth that Shakespeare wrote the works of "Shakespeare."
"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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