Category History of Ideas
Posted By Roger Stritmatter on November 29, 2013. Lightly revised 6/2/2022. Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1853): The idea of ‘My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is’ is Shakespeare’s. My Mind to me a kingdom is;……My wealth is health and perfect ease,My… Continue Reading →
One emphasis of this developing blog and website is on forensic method, a topic I’ve long studied and recently written about in the Journal of Forensic Document Examination (Vol. 27, 2017). One way I’ve developed an understanding of forensic methods… Continue Reading →
Guest post by William Ray The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare is one of the most respected publications in English scholarship. After a fulsome preface with particular reference to W.W. Greg as the greatest influence on his… Continue Reading →
Guest Post by William S. Niederkorn. After the recent post on Hypnerotomachia, I downloaded the first edition of that book (1499) from archive.org courtesy of the Boston Public Library and upon opening it, saw that the text block pattern of… Continue Reading →
The anonymous Hypnerotomachia Poliphilii (“The Strife of Love in a Dream by Poliphilus”) is among the most famous books of the medieval age, with influence radiating out from Venice, where it was first published in 1499, throughout Europe and into… Continue Reading →
In April I delivered an invited lecture to a members-only meeting of the Shakespeare Authorship Trust, a British organization dedicated to exploring the authorship question, about some annotated books at the Essex Estate of Audley End. John Casson and Bill… Continue Reading →
Leah Marcus 1988 “Puzzling Shakespeare” says that Ben Jonson’s first folio epigram “sets readers off on a treasure hunt. Where is the real author to be found?”
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 →
Originally posted By knitwitted on December 7, 2012 Per Naseeb Shaheen Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays (1999, 2011) pp. 38-39: “The vast majority of Shakespeare’s biblical references cannot be traced to any one version, since the many Tudor Bibles… Continue Reading →
Originally Posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 5, 2013 I just posted this review on Amazon: Reviewing some of the top-rated reviews on this Amazon site it is clear that some balance needs to be interjected into the discussion. James… Continue Reading →