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Eve (a former colleague of mine!) at Skeptical Humanities comments on the film and its "study guide":

So, no, Anonymous is NOT just a movie: it is a huge propaganda machine that wants desperately to sway viewers and students. Oh, and I know that this is nitpicky, but I don’t get the title. Perhaps I’ll understand after I (cringe) see the damned ( Read more... )

You know the one I mean.

The latest is from Alan Nelson, biographer of Edward de Vere and maintainer of a pretty nifty authorship page -- someone else is credited as the author of the post, but nearly all of it is a quote from him ( Read more... )

So Roland Emmerich's feculent antistratfordian polemic Anonymous has been shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, and a couple of hardy souls in the Shakespeare blogiverse have been unfortunate enough to see it, but their misfortune is excellent for us, because out of it there have been a couple of fairly awesome blog posts. And, really, ( Read more... )

THIS MOVIE LOOKS LIKE THE BIGGEST PIECE OF CINEMATIC POO SINCE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT

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I MEAN

WHAT

WHY

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ALSO JACOBI IS MAKING IT V DIFFICULT TO IGNORE HIS UNFORTUNATE AND BENIGHTED OPINIONS

IF YOU TOLD ME SHAKESPEARE NEVER WROTE A SINGLE WORD ( Read more... )

OMG WHAT NO

The stupid thing, courtesy of my dad via email and J on facebook: SCOTUS full of Oxfordians, film at 11. Because serving on the nation's highest court doesn't guarantee you know anything about literary history.

The cool thing, courtesy of tekalynn: Excerpts from the work of an anonymous diarist who recorded the efforts of New York shopkeepers to ( Read more... )

"Throughout the 1580s, De Vere maintained a band of tumblers as well as two theater companies, Oxford's Boys and Oxford's Men."

*cough*

Today's totally random pre-modern historiographical quote is from the St. Alban's Chronicle. Thomas Walsingham notes the death (in 1392) of notorious royal favorite Robert de Vere:

The death of Robert, formerly earl of Oxford
At that present time Robert de Vere, formerly earl of Oxford, who had jumped many ranks to gain the name of duke of Ireland ( Read more... )

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