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Dialogues of Michael Skeptical and Peter Principle II We last encountered Michael Skeptical with him en route to Roswell to find evidence to offer his sage wisdom to employees of area 51. Since then, we are told, during the Covid… Continue Reading →
Apparently in responses to Ms. Winkler’s Guardian story about the Francis Meres analysis I published in Critical Survey a chorus of followers has taken it upon themselves to lecture the internet. A leading argument of this internet flashmob concerns de… Continue Reading →
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on October 7, 2011 The following manuscript was sent to me from a fraudulent email account somewhere in Bermuda. Or maybe I found it in a bottle on the beach, like this: I have no idea… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Greg Swann tours the zany world of hypocritical Shakespeare denialism and teaches us to marvel at the genius of Shakespeare.
The blog responds to Professor Gabriel Egan in his review of my 2000 Notes and Queries article on the influence of the marginal notes of Samuel in 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.
Leslie Howard’s fierce commitment to the Oxfordian cause is memorialized in his 1941 Pimpernel Smith.