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….the biggest danger a Shakespeare scholar faces is the identification with his subject. Sam Schoenbaum states that Shakespeare is a mirror for his biographers and they project their own intellects, likes and dislikes onto him. Fashion him in their own image. I do too. He likes food as much as i do; relishing in […] Again a portrait appears from the depths of time claiming to be a true likeness of WS. This time the Cobbe portrait, owned by an Anglo-Irish family, who inherited it from the 3rd Earl of Southampton? This latter being Sh’s patron and reputed to be the fair young man of the sonnets. Strangely […] Renaissance Rhetoric – an instrument of Social control? Do we possess or are we possessed by Shakespeare? A. Mortimer (no relation to Hotspur’s antagonist) has written a book called ‘Variable Passions’. These questions arise from the briefest of perusals therein. The artist always fights and subverts the norms of his time. I assume (i know, […] …the big book from 1623 that started it all. Generations of school-kids could have been spared pain and misery, if only this book had not been published. No Shakespeare, or considerably less than we have. Some plays that were published in Quarto form may have survived on their merit. Stratford on Avon would been known […] …Robert S. Miola ISBN 0-19-871169-7 (paperback) O.U.P. The newest scholarship on the subject is presented in this book. Your humble thief, who learned from the best, remains determined to steal from the best, when his best is not good enough. So here for your edification is a tieved summary of the introduction and final chapters […] Wanted. Shakespeare. Dead? Or Alive? Baffling sequence of terminology spewed from a scholar’s lips and mind, which brings us to presentism. No capital required, it’s pretentious enough without. Keyser Sose type babbling of your humble author. 154 sonnets, 2155 lines, 17,520 words… James Joyce’s voice intones on your internal tympani fom the past, ‘the sonnets […] Sublime Shakespeare. Let’s talk about Longinus, as rude and scary as that sounds. His name actually may have been Dionysius or Longinus, or Dionysius Longinus. Historians, working on the accepted method of establishing an author, are unsure as to which name is really his. This argument could as easily been discussed in Sh’s time; as […] …also never suggested that it was someone other than the Stratford boy. He offered this ‘plan de campagne’ for understanding Sh. Something yours truly takes to heart. Understanding Shakespeare: ‘He who desires to understand Shakespeare truly must understand the relations in which Shakespeare stood to the Renaissance and the Reformation, to the age of Elizabeth […] …it’s official. He’s come out strong, flying his colours, planting himself on the side of Orthodoxy and the historical record as it stands. His sources in England, in Stratford, of the staunchest orthodox scholarship, as represented by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust scholars in residence, Drs. Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson. His sources throughout are excellent, […] |
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