Month May 2022
The Blog reports on Richard Waugaman’s influential 2009 and 2010 Notes and Queries articles on the influence of the Sternhold and Hopkins edition of the Psalms in Shakespeare. Visual evidence from the de Vere Geneva Bible shows eight of the Psalms whose influence Waugaman discusses are marked with manicules in the de Vere copy of Sternhold and Hopkins.
A review essay on Sky Gilbert’s new “Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry was the World.” The essay connects Gilbert’s argument that Shakespeare was obsessed by “the dangerous magical power of words” to the authorship question and suggests that the real author of the plays made himself known in part through the word play of his dramas and poems.