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 [...]
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 | February 9, 2011
“Do the right thing” — Spike Lee This is going to be perhaps the most important post I’ve made to Shake-Speares-Bible.com. I put a lot of effort into the two detailed posts on James Shapiro’s hyphen error, and several other posts may be of some long term interest as well. Certainly its worthwhile to find [...]
Roger Stritmatter | April 18, 2010
Yesterday we took a long hard look at James Shapiro’s faux pas in claiming, in Contested Will, that the first appearance of the name Shakespeare in print, on the dedicatory page of the first edition of Venus and Adonis (1593), is hyphenated. It’s not. We also saw that Shapiro builds on this misconception to create [...]
Roger Stritmatter | April 18, 2010
In case you were wondering if the internet is going to make us any smarter, the evidence is now in. The answer is, “no” – at least if one may draw any conclusion from the depressingly conformist hallelujah chorus which has issued from so many mass media internet reviewers in response to James Shapiro’s Contested [...]
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