Roger Stritmatter | October 26, 2011
By Kier Cutler, PhD (English) I am a “crackpot.” More accurately, I have a “psychological aberration.” I am also “ignorant,” “a snob” and “a publicity hound.” I “have a poor sense of logic,” “refuse to accept evidence,” and am “certifiably mad.” I am “pursuing a poisonous, insidious agenda.” Who calls me (and people like me) [...]
helenhgordon | October 26, 2011
The New York Times has bent down from its imperial perch to offer a few correspondents an opportunity to talk back to Professor Shapiro and Stephen Marche (no relation, apparently, to Bon), the newspaper’s two featured columnists on authorship studies, who both seem to have trouble distinguishing between facts and wishful thinking. Mark Anderson and [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 26, 2011
“The typical literary man is no more able to examine this question dispassionately than a priest is to pass on objection to the doctrine of the atonement, hell, heaven: not a bit more able…” by Paul A. Nelson, MD* Born in West Hills, Long Island, May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman resided in Camden, New Jersey, [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 25, 2011
From the moment he posted himself up here, almost a month ago, Coyote has been a minor hit. For a long time I thought that he would be a one-hit wonder. Exactly the opposite has happened. Who would have thought that, almost a month after his initial appearance, Coyote is steadily rising through the ranks [...]
Roger Stritmatter | October 25, 2011
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says “enough is enough.” The Trust has taken international relations and the history of literature into its own hands to protest that Warwickshire is no longer Shakespeare County, papering over the word “Shakespeare’s” in the phrase “Shakespeare’s County.”
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). |
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