James Shapiro and the “Notorious Hyphen,” Part II

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 an [...]

James Shapiro and Hunt for the “Notorious Hyphen”

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 [...]

Pimpernel Smith and the Earl of Oxford

Roger Stritmatter | March 6, 2010

Leslie Howard’s classic anti-Nazi film, after being widely available on vhs in the late 1990s, appears to be out of print again except for this Spanish version (good for the Spanish!) on Amazon. Still, fair use doctrine has its uses, and I’ve managed despite my technological incompetence to break out a few relevant clips, which [...]

Waugaman in Notes and Queries: Psalms Marked in De Vere Bible Influenced Shakespeare

Roger Stritmatter | January 13, 2010

Don’t look now, but literary scholar and psychoanalyst Richard Waugaman has published an intriguing new chapter in the ongoing study of the de Vere Geneva Bible.
Waugaman’s article, “The Sternhold and  Whole Book of the Psalms is a Major Source for the Works of Shakespeare,” appears in the December 2009 issue of Notes and Queries.

“A Matter of Style”: An Oxfordian Challenge

Roger Stritmatter | January 3, 2010

This blog is the second entry in my “Unsung Heroes” Series: it is dedicated to William Plumer Fowler (1901-1993) — poet, lawyer, and Shakespearean heretic.
From its inception in 1920, the case for Oxford’s authorship of the Shakespearean canon has been supported by stylistic analysis of the poetry and prose surviving under de Vere’s own name.
In [...]

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Keir Cutler Ph. D. performs Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare Dead?"

Cutler debunks the still-living myth that Shakespeare wrote the works of "Shakespeare."

"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).


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Roger Stritmatter

Roger Stritmatter is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Coppin State University and the General Editor of Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies.