Roger Stritmatter | February 1, 2012
Well, its been a few weeks since I’ve done a post, and I can only plead in my own defense for such lack of productivity that I have in fact been very productive indeed, just not on Facebook or on this blog (Hey, we old fuddy-duddy scholars have to do real work sometimes…..with such [...]
Leda Zakarison | December 6, 2011
Guest post by Leda Zakarison* I’m one of those people who should love Shakespeare. I fit the bill perfectly for a teenage Shakespeare fanatic – I read books, speak French, and participate in class discussions. I’ve always bought into this notion, too. I liked the idea of sitting in a corner of the library, sipping [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 22, 2011
The Montreal Gazette needs to hire some fact checkers. Or maybe it’s Harper publishers, one of the largest book manufacturers in the world. You tell me who screwed up worse here. It certainly wasn’t Michael York. This new missive by MG staffer Pat Donnelly, suggests that the “Anonymous writer should put a bag over his head.” Donnelley [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 21, 2011
Shakespearean actor Michael York to Wells & Edmondson: “Have you no sense of decency sirs, at long last? Or, as Shakespeare put it in Hamlet, ‘O shame! where is thy blush?’”
Mike | November 20, 2011
Guest Post by Michael Dudley* Anonymous may be garnering praise for its meticulous CGI recreation of Elizabethan London, but few critics can bring themselves to laud it as a film. As was noted in Roger’s earlier post, many film critics – the bulk of whom are surely not Shakespearean scholars themselves – apparently feel compelled to [...]
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