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Transferring this Blog from WordPress to my Website
This blog will now be active at: http://hewardwilkinson.co.uk/blog/ All the entries can now be found there. I shall leave this up for a while with this as the active post. Heward
Nina Green’s Biography of Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford
Nina Green’s excellent biography of the Earl of Oxford is now on her website at: http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/OxfordsBiography/Oxford%27sBiography.pdf It was developed and revised to update the Wikipedia biography – which may be ‘re-edited’ of course – and takes account of masses of … Continue reading
Hegelian Philosophy of Intersubjectivity and the Shakespeare Authorship
With my philosophy group yesterday, we were wrestling with Hegel’s concept of reason; we considered how his radically modern conception of intersubjectivity, in the Lordship/Vassalhood chapter of the Phenomenology of Spirit, actually paradoxically derives from an understanding of Feudalism, something … Continue reading
De-Imagining Imagination: An Essay on ‘Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?’ by James Shapiro
De-Imagining Imagination? An Essay on ‘Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?’ by James Shapiro http://www.faber.co.uk/work/contested-will/9780571235766/ http://www.thethoughtfox.co.uk/?p=1563 Curiosity killed the cat James Shapiro’s book on the Shakespeare authorship question got me on to the internet to order it; it was frustrating to … Continue reading
Shakespeare the Soap Opera Committee writer: James Shapiro’s ‘Contested Will’
James Shapiro has written a fascinating book, which I shall clearly have to get, but whose core theses are becoming clear already! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a017cbe4-384c-11df-8420-00144feabdc0.html And I think the Shapiro situation is a real opportunity for anyone who doubts the Stratfordian attribution. … Continue reading
Shapiro’s Contested Will – Hilary Mantel’s Review
The Guardian/Observer now has a review of Contested Will by Hilary Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall, her magnificent masterpiece of bourgeois or Whig apology around the life of Thomas Cromwell. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/20/contested-will-who-wrote-shakespeare It is striking, perhaps inevitable, that she puts … Continue reading
Shapiro’s Contested Will – Whalen’s review
There is a superb review of James Shapiro’s book on the Shakespeare Authorship question – in many ways the first by a Stratfordian that takes the issue at all seriously – ‘Contested Will’ on the Shakespeare-Oxford Society blog site: http://shakespeareoxfordsociety.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/whalen-reviews-contested-will/#comment-960 … Continue reading
Philosophical Intensity and Its Problems
In the philosophy courses I run, I try to open up the deeper layers of what the great philosophers are about, to expose how their work can, and often has, changed the world and changed the deeper strata of how … Continue reading
Stratfordian Nostalgia – and Marx
I think Oxfordians of this generation underestimate the element in their own position which leaves them with a feeling of loss of something like a security which inhered in the Stratfordian position. In a sense, they were able to have … Continue reading
Our Strange Reversion to a Shame-based Culture
Despite many faults and flaws, we have spent four centuries, roughly, in the West overcoming a shame-based communitarian mediaeval culture – and we are now busy reintroducing it!! And this one hasn’t got the greatness of the old shame based … Continue reading
