Sunday, August 30, 2009

Overbury Overdrive Part 749: Shakespeare in Canard-land

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Today's Washington Post Sunday Magazine features a head-scratcher of a cover story (not unlike the cover fodder in the color suppleme...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

William Golding's biographer on the unfortunate nature of many eminent creators

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This past week on the BBC Radio 4 arts and entertainment program(me) "Front Row," host Mark Lawson interviewed biographer John Car...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Order in the Courthouse: The Wrath of Kahn

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The legal newswire syndicate Courthouse News Service today ran a column taking on the Oxfordians and "Shakespeare" By Another Name...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Getting Skeptical

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The August issue of Scientific American contains an article providing "A Skeptic's Take on the Life and Argued Works of Shakespear...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Phaedra: Get Thee to a Cinema

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This is slightly off-topic, but an interesting experiment in world-wide theater is coming up this week that is worthy of note in this space:...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Mark Twain: The other Shakespeare centenary

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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shake-speare's Sonnets -- one of two important Bard-related centennials to ...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Titanic: The Prequel

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Historian, author and blogger Robert Sean Brazil notes today that exactly four centuries ago, on June 2, 1609, English adventurers set sail...