News and Scholarship on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

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Roger Stritmatter is a Professor of Humanities at Coppin State University, where he has taught since 2003.

Mistaken Identity: Discovering The Two Cinnas in the Audley End Notes

Shows that one of the most potent passages relevant to the authorship question — namely the murderous confusion of “Cinna the Poet” for “Cinna the Conspirator — by the mob roused to a fury by Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration — is inscribed as an annotation in the Audley End copy of Cassius Dio.

James Baldwin on the Authorship Question and the Mystery of the Poet

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 →

Handwriting 101: Did the Earl of Oxford Ghostwrite George Peele’s 1596 Letter to Lord Burghley?

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 →

Milestone Research on Francis Meres Forthcoming in Critical Survey

Critical Survey, an established peer-reviewed academic journal edited by Professor Graham Holderness at Hertfordshire University, has accepted for publication a 13,000-word study of Frances Meres’ Palladis Tamia (1598) and its role in the authorship debate. The new article, “Francis Meres… Continue Reading →

Dr. Nelson, I Presume: Will the Real Historian Please Stand Up?

Originally posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 22, 2013 In  a recent blog entry I cited some evidence for what appears to be a renewed campaign to make Professor Alan Nelson the face of scholarship when it comes to all… Continue Reading →

SOF Interview: Brief Chronicles on Shakespeare and the Law

Bob Meyers interviews me on the newest volume in the Brief Chronicles series, Shakespeare and the Law: How the Bard’s Legal Knowledge Affects the Authorship Question (2022). The book is also gaining a series of solid recommendations and reviews on… Continue Reading →

Alexander Waugh’s Spectator Debate Revisited

Posted By Roger Stritmatter n.b. 9/15/2022: like some other recent blog entries here, this is a salvage from the Wayback machine, originally posted on November 10, 2013. I think the account still holds up well, as the Oxfraudians quoted here… Continue Reading →

SOF Covers New York de Vere Ball

“Edward de Vere gives me hope. And in these trying and uncertain times, humanity’s best path forward is the one in which we’re able to draw inspiration from the greatest poet who ever lived. Just as the Founding Fathers modeled… Continue Reading →

The Date, Sources and Symbolism of the Tempest

At the 2022 annual Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference at the Ashland Hills Hotel in Ashland, Oregon (Friday, Sept. 23, 4:35-5:35), I’ll be speaking with Earl Showerman on The Tempest. The abstract reads as follows: This comprehensive session will review recent… Continue Reading →

“My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is”: The Earl of Oxford, and the Shakespearean Question, Part I

Posted By Roger Stritmatter on November 29, 2013. Lightly revised 6/2/2022. Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1853): The idea of ‘My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is’ is Shakespeare’s. My Mind to me a kingdom is;……My wealth is health and perfect ease,My… Continue Reading →

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