Roger Stritmatter | September 29, 2011
I’ve always wondered what it must feel like to be an important blogger writing for a celebrated and widely read publication like the Huffington Post, a publication I greatly admire. Wouldn’t it feel great to know that your words are actually influencing public perception, and that you have the opportunity to engage in informed [...]
Roger Stritmatter | September 17, 2011
Contrary to the prevailing trends within the Shakespearean industry, it seems to me that Shakespeare, like the Duke in Measure for Measure, must have been one who “above all other strifes contended especially to know himself.” Such a view of Shakespeare as a man of accumulating wisdom and self-awareness, if it is not [...]
Roger Stritmatter | September 16, 2011
Next to the bard, I like Ben Jonson best. There is no writer in the English language, even Shakespeare, quite as logical and lyrical at the same time as Ben Jonson. And no writer, I believe, has been more misunderstood than he. We call him “Ben” and pat him on the shoulder to assure ourselves [...]
Roger Stritmatter | June 15, 2011
“Shakespeare lived a life of allegory. His works are comments on it.” These words by John Keats, perhaps the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, distill the essence of authentic Shakespearean biography — as distinct from the seemingly never-ending parade of sham biographies inflicted year after year on an unsuspecting public. In 21st century literary circles [...]
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