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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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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