Michael York to Professor Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson: Have You No Sense of Decency, Sirs?

| 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?’”

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The “Propaganda Model of News” and the Critical Response to Anonymous

| 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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Stratfordians fighting on two fronts now the Vatican weighs in

| November 20, 2011

My blog post about the Vatican’s coming out for the Catholic Bard thesis and Peter Dickson’s flamboyant response is now available. Dickson comments: “Given the report concerning the bombshell announcement and apparent claim by the Vatican’s official newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano), anti-Stratfordians and Oxfordians can never say I did not warn them since 1998 of the importance of the [...]

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“R[eliable] S[ource]” and “Fringe Theory” Authorship Question – Some Comments and (Below) a Guest Post by Richard Whalen…

| November 19, 2011

Many readers will already have heard something about the authorship wiki-wars. One of the fictions effectively perpetrated on unwitting newbies in these edit battles by the usual gang of diehard orthodoxists is that anything dealing in an intelligent way with the authorship question does not constitute a “reliable source” (is not RS) — apparently because [...]

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Not Unanimous on Anonymous

| November 12, 2011

A guest post by  Richard Waugaman, M.D. Roland Emmerich’s new film, Anonymous, is inspired by the same theory that gripped Freud during the last dozen years of his life—that “William Shakespeare” was the pseudonym and front man of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604). The film has generated much debate, some of it acrimonious. Why [...]

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Keir Cutler PhD: "Is Shakespeare Dead?"

"A magnificently witty performance!" (Winnipeg Sun). "Highly entertaining and engrossing!" (EYE Weekly). "Is Shakespeare Dead? marshals startling facts into an elegant and often tenacious argument that floats on a current of delicious irony" (Montreal Gazette).