Month May 2023
In James Baldwin’s uncollected works, The Cross of Redemption, falling in between “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” and “We Can Change the Country” on one side, and “The Uses of the Blues” on the other, is Baldwin’s “Why I Stopped… Continue Reading →
Roger Stritmatter In a Winter 2022 Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Newsletter article, “Who Wrote George Peele’s “Only Extant Letter,” Robert Prechter conducts an analysis claiming to establish that a 1595 letter sent to William Cecil, describing a literary work written by… Continue Reading →
Eastern Christianity remains the most poetical and art-affirming of Christian traditions, developing an ethos that is much closer to the spirit of Shakespeare than seen in the western Churches. Was there significant influence from this earlier Christian tradition that helped the poet transcend the most polemical elements of the Catholic-Protestant conflict?