Category Shakespeare 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.
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?
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?”
Guest post by Leda Zakarison* I’m one of those people who should love Shakespeare. I fit the bill perfectly for a teenage Shakespeare fanatic – I read books, speak French, and participate in class discussions. I’ve always bought into this… Continue Reading →
Fact patterns are more important than facts. In this first of a series, we consider the fact pattern of Shakespeare’s missing books.
Originally posted By Heward Wilkinson on October 31, 2011 We are pleased to offer another guest post from Dr. Heward Wilkinson. His previous post, on Professor Shapiro’s misunderstanding of the concept of “imagination,” may be found here. -Ed Our modern… Continue Reading →
The second in a two part series on James Shapiro’s hyphenation follies.
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 →
Psychotherapist and Literary Scholar Heward Wilkinson explains why James Shapiro’s concept of Shakespeare’s imagination is ideological and impossible.