Category History of the Authorship Question
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.”
It’s shocking, I know, but in the 21st century you can still read things like this on the internet: Four decades after Charlton Ogburn’s Mysterious William Shakespeare and over a hundred years after John Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified, this ugliness… Continue Reading →