Category Shakespeare and Rhetoric
Here are two pages from the Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook that may be worth previewing. In the Sourcebook they come with questions for classroom discussion. I have purposefully refrained from over-interpreting the sequence for you because that’s bad teaching. Showing the… Continue Reading →
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.