News and Scholarship on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

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Dr. Nelson, I Presume: Will the Real Historian Please Stand Up?

Originally posted By Roger Stritmatter on April 22, 2013 In  a recent blog entry I cited some evidence for what appears to be a renewed campaign to make Professor Alan Nelson the face of scholarship when it comes to all… Continue Reading →

Alexander Waugh’s Spectator Debate Revisited

Posted By Roger Stritmatter n.b. 9/15/2022: like some other recent blog entries here, this is a salvage from the Wayback machine, originally posted on November 10, 2013. I think the account still holds up well, as the Oxfraudians quoted here… Continue Reading →

Still Puzzling Shakespeare After All These Years

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?”

Fact Patterns in the Shakespeare Question: Which Translation of the Bible did Shakespeare Read?

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 →

The Failure of Intellectual History: James Shapiro and his Contested Will

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 →

A Life of Allegory: Eduardus is My Proper Name

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 →

Aloha Vere: Folger Library Confronts “Problems” of Shakespearean Biography

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.”

A Shakespeare Skeptics Hall of Fame

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 →

The Longevity of the Shakespeare Authorship Question: What Does it Mean?

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 →

James Shapiro and the Notorious Hyphen, Part II

The second in a two part series on James Shapiro’s hyphenation follies.

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