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March 27, 2010

Did Shakespeare write his plays alone?

Posted March 27th, 2010 by admin

When I began teaching in the early 1980s, I was only dimly aware that a revolution was taking place in how Shakespeare’s world and works were understood.
A decade earlier, as an undergraduate at Columbia University, I had been introduced to Shakespeare’s England through The Elizabethan World Picture (1943), EMW Tillyard’s slim and influential volume. We learned from Tillyard that English Renaissance culture was conservative [...]

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March 21, 2010

What Darwin Got Wrong - Jerry Fodor debates Elliot Sober

Posted March 21st, 2010 by admin

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Contested Will

Posted March 21st, 2010 by admin

Most Shakespeare experts have a lot to say about the conspiracy theorists who deny Shakespeare’s authorship of his own plays – but very little of it is printable, let alone as readable as James Shapiro’s Contested Will. Read more…

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‘Psycho’ analysis

Posted March 21st, 2010 by admin

Late in 1959, the world was treated to a weird spectacle. A portly, well-known Englishman appeared on movie screens, showing the audience round a seedy motel. The motel seemed to be in middle America and the Englishman seemed, to some, to be off his trolley. He clearly believed the place’s appeal was enhanced by a murder recently committed there. “You should [...]

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