Roger Stritmatter | November 12, 2011
Sue Gardner is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Dear Ms. Gardner: Naturally, you are very welcome for the gift, even if it is no more than a widow’s mite. However, at the risk of sounding like one who is attaching strings, I’m not really the one you need to thank. Indeed, I’d like [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 11, 2011
David played the secret chord. That’s what we’re going to look for in the Bard. The secret chord. He took David for his example. “Set your whole delight” in God’s wisdom, urged his uncle Arthur Golding in dedicating his 1571 translation of the psalms to him. “Occupy yourself day and night, to lay it [...]
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
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 [...]
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). |
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