Roger Stritmatter | October 31, 2011
You’d think that it might be enough, in the words of the Slate magazine’s inimitable cult-crit specialist Ron Rosenbaum, “to remain silent in the face of [the] stupidity [of] this…. culture-destroying ugliness.” Or that it would suffice us to be enlightened, as Wesley Morris at the Boston Globe instructs us, that “Roland Emmerich destroys things [...]
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 29, 2011
The Shakespeare Authorship Trust, a British educational foundation dedicated to exploring the authorship question (including adherents of multiple views) has announced the premiere of Last Will and Testament, the 1604 Productions documentary film produced to accompany Anonymous. The ninety minute documentary film “explores the evolution of the authorship question since Shakespeare’s time, with particular reference [...]
William Ray | October 27, 2011
William J. Ray has previously appeared on this website only through quotation. I am pleased to feature his writing at greater length in this series of missives, some of which were censored in other contexts. -Ed. Since studying the question of who wrote the Shakespeare canon, I have found in current letters a good deal [...]
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 [...]
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