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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.”
Dr. Heather Wolfe of the Folger Shakespeare Library contracts Tom Reedy, explaining that the seventh “Shakespeare signature” in a copy of William Lambarde’s Archaionomia is a forgery. Not, apparently, to the Oxfrauds.