"The New Shakespeare Allusion Book" is a forthcoming, collaboratively prepared reference book of over 700 pages, co-edited by Alexander Waugh and Roger Stritmatter. Canvassing the critical reception, in both orthodox and post-Stratfordian traditions, of more than 182 allusions to Shakespeare or Shakespeare plays from 1584 to 1786, the work not only summarizes the history of each allusion in the secondary literature, but comprehensively and carefully contextualizes each allusion to reach a surprising conclusion:
The vast majority of these allusions exhibit clear evidence for their authors’ awareness that the Shakespeare works were written under a pseudonym.
And a large number of these allusions, using early modern tactics of literal indirection, even reveal a clear understanding that the real author of the works was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. No comparable resource, bringing the Oxfordian case to an academic as well as a popular readership on strictly scholarly terms, is currently available. The presentation will cover some highlights from the forthcoming allusion book and then facilitate discussion on how the SOF and other post-Stratfordian groups can make use of the allusion book in our public education projects.
This talk was presented on October 15, 2017, at the SOF Annual Conference in Chicago.
Roger Stritmatter, Ph.D., is Professor of Humanities and Literature at Coppin State University (Baltimore) and a member of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (SOS) since 1990. He was a founding member of the Shakespeare Fellowship (2001-13), which merged with the SOS to form the SOF in 2013. In 2009, with Gary Goldstein, he created Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies, serving as general editor (2009-16). The 2015 third edition of James A. Warren's "Index to Oxfordian Publications" identifies 105 articles by him between 1990 and 2014, many in orthodox academic journals including Shakespeare Yearbook, Review of English Studies, Notes and Queries, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. He is co-author, with Lynne Kositsky, of "On the Date, Sources, and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest" (McFarland 2013). He has appeared in two authorship documentaries, Last Will. & Testament (2012) and Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018).
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1 авг 2024
