Month May 2022
Leah Marcus 1988 “Puzzling Shakespeare” says that Ben Jonson’s first folio epigram “sets readers off on a treasure hunt. Where is the real author to be found?”
Here are two pages from the Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook that may be worth previewing. In the Sourcebook they come with questions for classroom discussion. I have purposefully refrained from over-interpreting the sequence for you because that’s bad teaching. Showing the… Continue Reading →
Originally posted By knitwitted on December 7, 2012 Per Naseeb Shaheen Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays (1999, 2011) pp. 38-39: “The vast majority of Shakespeare’s biblical references cannot be traced to any one version, since the many Tudor Bibles… Continue Reading →
Originally Posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 5, 2013 I just posted this review on Amazon: Reviewing some of the top-rated reviews on this Amazon site it is clear that some balance needs to be interjected into the discussion. James… Continue Reading →
Originally posted By Roger Stritmatter on June 15, 2011 “Shakespeare lived a life of allegory. His works are comments on it.” These words by John Keats, perhaps the greatest English poet after Shakespeare, distill the essence of authentic Shakespearean biography… Continue Reading →
The blog entry summarizes the experience of the Folger Library’s 2014 Conference on “Shakespeare and the Problem of Biography,” arguing that the conference was mislabeled and should have been called “Biography and the Problems of Shakespeare.”
It’s shocking, I know, but in the 21st century you can still read things like this on the internet: Four decades after Charlton Ogburn’s Mysterious William Shakespeare and over a hundred years after John Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified, this ugliness… Continue Reading →
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on October 7, 2011 The following manuscript was sent to me from a fraudulent email account somewhere in Bermuda. Or maybe I found it in a bottle on the beach, like this: I have no idea… Continue Reading →
Guest post by Leda Zakarison* I’m one of those people who should love Shakespeare. I fit the bill perfectly for a teenage Shakespeare fanatic – I read books, speak French, and participate in class discussions. I’ve always bought into this… Continue Reading →
Critical Survey is a peer-reviewed journal edited by Professor Graham Holderness at the University of Hertfordshire. The editorial board includes Michael Bristol, Leah Marcus, and Anabel Patterson, not to mention both Sir Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and… Continue Reading →