Roger Stritmatter | 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 [...]
William Ray | 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 [...]
Roger Stritmatter | 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 [...]
Roger Stritmatter | 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) [...]
helenhgordon | October 26, 2011
The New York Times has bent down from its imperial perch to offer a few correspondents an opportunity to talk back to Professor Shapiro and Stephen Marche (no relation, apparently, to Bon), the newspaper’s two featured columnists on authorship studies, who both seem to have trouble distinguishing between facts and wishful thinking. Mark Anderson and [...]
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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