A Review Essay by Michael Dudley Originally published in Brief Chronicles First Folio Special Edition (2016), pages 133–139 The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s
Professor David Gontar has traveled far from the beaten path. He teaches at Inner Mongolia University in China, as distant from American academe as an airplane can reach…
In his opening paragraph, James Ross describes John de Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, as “the last great medieval nobleman.” He continues…
Colin Burrow, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has written widely on the relationship between Renaissance literature and the classics. In his most extended study of this subject, Shakespeare & Classical Antiquity, he argues that “Shakespeare knew …
To evaluate Ver, begin and the challenge it represents for modern Shakespearean scholarship, we revisit an imperative written by J. Thomas Looney:
We shall first have to dissociate from the [canon] writings the conception of such an author as the steady, complacent, business-like man-of-the-world suggested by the Stratford Shakspere. …
The Sonnets consist of “love poetry that is as passionate, daring, intimate, searing, and lyrical as any that we may ever encounter,” Rudenstine writes, adding that the poems are “more carefully ordered—as a coherent sequence” than most commentators allow, and that “some of the clusters of linked sonnets seem so tightly bound together”
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy Edited By Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 284 pp. Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Exposing An Industry
Professor James Norwood explains how the PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered inadvertently reveals the inadequacies of the Stratfordian attribution of Shakespeare’s plays. In this third part
Professor James Norwood explains how the PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered inadvertently reveals the inadequacies of the Stratfordian attribution of Shakespeare’s plays. In this second part
Professor James Norwood explains how the PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered inadvertently reveals the inadequacies of the Stratfordian attribution of Shakespeare’s plays. In this first part
August 23, 2014 — Gary Goldstein, former editor of Brief Chronicles and the Elizabethan Review, announced today that the collected works of the late Italian
In this second review of Irvin Matus’ Shakespeare, IN FACT (1994), Publius, a pseudonym for a professor of Comparative Literature at an Ivy League institution, exposes the shoddy reasoning of the author.
by Richard M. Waugaman Bronson Feldman, Hamlet Himself (2010). This review was published on the SOF website, Sept. 20, 2013. Graham Bradshaw famously said “Hamlet
Documentary Film Seeks to Uncover the Truth About “Shakespeare” September 16, 2013 — Last Will. & Testament explores one of the greatest literary mysteries of all
by Tom Regnier Editorial Note: See also Regnier’s more in-depth review of this book. Cambridge University Press recently released Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (Edmondson & Wells
August 10, 2011 — Hilary Roe Metternich has provided a lovely slideshow and summary, available on the Huffington Post, of The Shakespeare Guide to Italy (2011),
