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On the ramparts for Will…

…over at discover magazine blog this discussion is going on. I replied a looong comment. Now I don’t say that Will Shakespeare of Stratford did write his works and basta! end of conversation.

I say there is no reason to doubt why somebody in the position he was in couldn’t have written these plays. Negating […]

Playwrights on playwriting…

…having read parts of ‘Shakespeare by Another Name’ by Mark Anderson last night and in response to the idea of Roland Emmerich doing a movie about how SHakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare.

I think it rather interesting that none of the following playwrights have never questioned the fact that Shakespeare didn’t do what is said […]

A load of Tosh…

…or a book called The Pursuit of History by John Tosh. It never fails to amuse my tiny mind how author’s names can be seen as (admittedly lame) jokes on their chosen topic.

Prominently from one conspiracists’ viewpoint, Thomas Looney whose choice of Oxenforde as Shake-speare i would say is ‘looney’. But as they […]

Paradoxically…Shhhhhh…

Mention the name and a host of voices, living and dead, are conjured up. Their judgements are often contradictory and so the battle continues.

Undoubtedly a man bearing that name lived and breathed and created under the form and pressure of his times. We know this man wrote 2 popular narrative poems and a […]

Folk or Fiction…

…Sunday I went to see Will’s Will by the Amsterdam Chamber Theatre. My thoughts were to review it but then the fact-fiction of it all got in the way. And once again I’ll review that with the necessary pinch o salt added.

Yep when you look at Sh of Stratford’s life as recorded and the […]

Wax lyrical…

….about The Berliner Ensemble!

The Robert Wilson directed show is basically 25 Sonnets with music by Rufus Wainwright. View his version of Sonnet 20 here. Remember regular readers, all feminine lines!

Here’s a review online from Der Spiegel International in English.

And for you lucky SOB’s that can tune into the ARTE TV channel […]

Theoriously…

…Everyday i add a little more to the relevance of this site for the post-modern student of Shakespeare. The Theory links have been expanded with Youtube videos on the major theories.

For example did you know Freud loved cocaine? And he was a conspiracist? Or that Karl Marx loved Shakespeare? And was probably a Stratfordian. […]

Martin Wiggins…

Martin Wiggins is a professor at the Shakespeare Institute. Invariably whilst I was a student there, he was dressed in black with a shock of silver hair. His intelligence and learning are humbling. His love of his subject matter cloaks his being. A good professor in other words.

Every student he has ever had, has […]

Apologies to a conspiracist…

….I brusquely replied to an Oxfordian the other day, and i’m sorry for it. Not because I know the man, but because it diminishes a man to insult before introducing himself to his opponent.

Unless he wishes to make an enemy of that man. And I do not. So i shall use this blog to […]

Friends and Fellows

…There is a great difference, whether any Booke choose his Patrones, or finde them: This hath done both. For, so much were your L.L. (= Lordships) likings of the severall parts, when they were acted, as before they were published, the Volume ask’d to be yours. We have but collected them, and done an office […]