Category History of the Authorship Question
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.
A detailed forensic study, forthcoming in the Journal of Forensic Document Examination, of the annotations of six books at Audley End in Essex shows that that they are not made, as sometimes supposed, by Sir Henry Neville, but by Edward… Continue Reading →
Here’s the first of what will be many videos on the Audley End Annotations, sponsored by the Shakespeare Authorship Trust and the and posted to Youtube in April 2022. The video shows with detailed analysis why the annotations are not,… Continue Reading →
Nearly a year ago the De Vere Society Newsletter published several brief first impressions of the content of the Audley End Annotations, following my April 2022 discussion of the handwriting question for the Shakespeare Authorship Trust. The Authorship Trust lecture… Continue Reading →
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 →
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?
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →