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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 →
Psychotherapist and Literary Scholar Heward Wilkinson explains why James Shapiro’s concept of Shakespeare’s imagination is ideological and impossible.
From 1586 – two years before the Spanish Armada – to his death in 1604, Edward de Vere received a thousand pound annuity from the Elizabethan state. After the death of Elizabeth I in April, 1603, James I renewed the… Continue Reading →
The post includes high resolution photos of de Vere’s 4th Danvers Escheat letter, which includes the proverb, “finis coronat opus,” “the end crowns the work.” The proverb is repeated with variation in Shakespeare at least three times.
The de Vere Bible annotator underlines three key moments of action in I Samuel 16:23, in which the young David plays on his harp to cure the madness of Saul.
Greg Swann tours the zany world of hypocritical Shakespeare denialism and teaches us to marvel at the genius of Shakespeare.
The Blog reports on Richard Waugaman’s influential 2009 and 2010 Notes and Queries articles on the influence of the Sternhold and Hopkins edition of the Psalms in Shakespeare. Visual evidence from the de Vere Geneva Bible shows eight of the Psalms whose influence Waugaman discusses are marked with manicules in the de Vere copy of Sternhold and Hopkins.
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.
