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 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 9, 2011
Don’t look now, but Shakespeare makes you smarter. At least, that’s what the neuroscientists are saying. This article from BigThink reports on research by Professor Philip Davis from the University of Liverpool’s School of English, conducted with assistance from colleagues in neuroscience, showing that Shakespeare’s “creative mistakes…shift mental pathways and open possibilities” for what the brain can do. [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 1, 2011
In the most recent of the series of my Notes and Queries articles on Shakespeare and the Bible, I analyzed the significance of Ecclesiasticus 28.3-5 as a core Bible verse for Shakespeare, one mentioned in some form in at least five different plays, most prominently The Tempest. Notes and Queries didn’t ask for a picture, [...]
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