Roger Stritmatter | October 26, 2011
Ben Jonson, propelled in part by his central role in Anonymous, which provides an intriguing reconstruction of his possible relationship with “Shakespeare,” is in the news again. With thanks to Lisa W. for the tipoff, here’s the Science Daily article, reporting on the possible discovery of a a major new Jonson-related manuscript by University of Nottingham and [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 26, 2011
“The typical literary man is no more able to examine this question dispassionately than a priest is to pass on objection to the doctrine of the atonement, hell, heaven: not a bit more able…” by Paul A. Nelson, MD* Born in West Hills, Long Island, May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman resided in Camden, New Jersey, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 25, 2011
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says “enough is enough.” The Trust has taken international relations and the history of literature into its own hands to protest that Warwickshire is no longer Shakespeare County, papering over the word “Shakespeare’s” in the phrase “Shakespeare’s County.”
Roger Stritmatter | October 24, 2011
Richard Waugaman and I have successfully proposed an authorship forum for the March 2012 Mid-Atlantic College English Association Meetings, which this year are focused on the theme of “Boundaries.” Here’s the proposal: The opening lines of King Lear announce a program involving not only ontology but also its conjunction with semantics. In the scene, truth [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 23, 2011
An excellent podcast here, from PBS regular Kurt Anderson and Mark Anderson (no relation), author of Shakespeare By Another Name, the most widely read current de Vere biography, on Studio 360. Anderson interviews Anonymous screenwriter John Orloff, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Berkeley’s Dr. Alan Nelson, who gets in more than a few words “edgewise.” Nelson [...]
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