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.

James Shapiro and the Notorious Hyphen, Part II

The second in a two part series on James Shapiro’s hyphenation follies.

Letters from My Mailman: Rowing in a Sea of Disinformation

Posted By William Ray on October 27, 2011, Willits homesteader, poet, and scholar. William J. Ray has previously appeared on this website only through quotation. I am pleased to feature his reflections at greater length in this series of missives,… Continue Reading →

William Ray Delivers the Mail – But Who is he, Really?

I have a confession to make. William Ray is my favorite mail carrier. On the days when my usual mailman is off, and William substitutes for him, we have the greatest seminars. I know, I know. Mr. Ray’s mail carrying… Continue Reading →

The Sources of Shakespeare’s Literary Imagination

Psychotherapist and Literary Scholar Heward Wilkinson explains why James Shapiro’s concept of Shakespeare’s imagination is ideological and impossible.

Fact Patterns in the Shakespeare Question: Edward De Vere’s Thousand Pound Annuity

From 1586 – two years before the Spanish Armada – to his death in 1604, Edward de Vere received a thousand pound annuity from the Elizabethan state. After the death of Elizabeth I in April, 1603, James I renewed the… Continue Reading →

The End Crowns the Work: A Proverb from Edward de Vere’s Letter in Shakespeare

The post includes high resolution photos of de Vere’s 4th Danvers Escheat letter, which includes the proverb, “finis coronat opus,” “the end crowns the work.” The proverb is repeated with variation in Shakespeare at least three times.

A Secret Chord in Shakespeare: Music Therapy in I Samuel

The de Vere Bible annotator underlines three key moments of action in I Samuel 16:23, in which the young David plays on his harp to cure the madness of Saul.

Oxford’s Torment: Another Chapter in the Shakespeare Mystery

Greg Swann tours the zany world of hypocritical Shakespeare denialism and teaches us to marvel at the genius of Shakespeare.

De Vere Bible Psalms in Shakespeare: Surprise in Notes and Queries

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.

The Dangerous Magic of Words: Shakespeare and Subversive Rhetoric

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.

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