Roger Stritmatter: From Literary Encryptions to Handwriting, a Work in Progress
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2024
- This presentation reports on two ongoing projects. The first is being published in Critical Survey, a Stratfordian journal, edited by Graham Holderness (with an editorial board including such well-recognized scholars and creative spirits as Stanley Wells, Sir Derek Jacobi, Anabel Patterson, Ania Loomba, Katherine Belsey, and Leah Marcus). The article documents the literary encryption of Francis Meres in his 1598 commonplace book, Palladis Tamia. Carefully examined, the book discloses an unambiguous identification of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the real “Shakespeare.”
The second project involves Roger's study and documentation of a set of annotations discovered in books of Roman history from the great estate of Audley End near Saffron Walden in Essex. This includes a critical source for Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Funded by the de Vere Society, it is uncovering visible evidence of an author taking notes for plays he is writing. The author in fact seems to be reading with an attentive eye for dramatic detail and a concern for dramatic patterns in the events he’s taking notes on.
Along with the dramatic aspects of history, the Audley end annotator shows an interest in the names of the great Roman theatres, laws pertaining to the seating of nobles in Roman theatres, and the expulsion of actors from Italy for causing political offense. He also takes note of Seneca’s use of “shifting his scene,” from Rome to Marseille, as a way to disguise his dramatic criticism of his fellow Romans. And while documenting these more general interests in the history of drama, the annotations provide a study of the artist working out many curious aspects - of character, plot, theme, or literary shading, for the two Roman plays.
Although previously misidentified as being in the handwriting of Sir Henry Neville, Roger's ongoing research seems to disprove this belief and is actually confirming that the writer is Edward de Vere. Already published in preliminary synopsis in both the de Vere Society Newsletter and the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Newsletter, this new evidence from Audley End is potentially a game-changer, the full significance of which will require many more months to fully unravel.
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Bio: Roger Stritmatter is a professor of Humanities at Coppin State University and was the editor of the journal Brief Chronicles from 2009 to 2016. He was a founder of one of the predecessor organizations of the SOF, the Shakespeare Fellowship. Educated at Evergreen State College (B.A. 1981) and the New School for Social Research (M.A., 1988), he was awarded a Ph.D. in 2001 in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst on the basis of a study of 1,043 marked passages found in Edward de Vere's Geneva Bible, which is now owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has edited numerous books on the authorship question.
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Truly Stellar!
Congratulations Roger!
Tenacity pays dividends and as they say -he who has gets!
This is a great get!
Looking forward to the paper publication.
Brilliant. Another brick is removed from the wall.
Wow! Happy to be the first person to comment here on this wonderful presentation by Roger Stritmatter. The first part really shines a light on the "ad hominem" nature of much of the orthodox reviews of Oxfordian research. I have seen Alexander Waugh's You Tube presentation on Palladis Tamia and was thoroughly convinced that Meres WAS playing with arithmetical structures. The number of seventeen authors on the English side should itself be a wake-up call...if you had anything like an inquiring mind! On the second part...I was very eager to hear about Roger's discoveries at Audley End...and this does not disappoint!(be still my beating heart!) If the handwriting research proves positive...and the small amount of evidence here presented seems very promising...given the author Cassius Dio, the fact that the annotator clearly knew Greek...and the relevance to two Shake-speare plays: Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar...this could be (dare I say it?) potentially a smoking gun?
Roger is too modest to say it, but he already found the proverbial smoking gun in his dissertation research: the 1570 Geneva Bible purchased new by young Oxford, whose annotations closely track biblical echoes in the works of Shakespeare. That is, the more times Shakespeare echoes a given verse, the more likely that verse is to be annotated in Oxford's Bible. Q.E.D.
@@richardwaugaman1505 I'm collecting them.
🫶 Thank you never giving up. I appreciate your scholarship, Dr. Stritmatter.
Adds greatly to the growing body of researched evidence supporting DeVere's author status as Shakespeare. It contrasts in a sharp-edged way with all the murky sentimentalism and rote traditionalism putting forth the Stratford man as the author. Akin to flat earthers, Stratfordians have to paddle mightily to resist the abundant evidence strongly suggesting they are wrong. Belief is one thing; empirical evidence quite another.
Thrilling
First and foremost, thanks to Professor Stritmatter and several others connected to Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship and pre-Fellowship, we stand on the shoulders of pure academic, open-minded (skeptical = open minded in GRK) brilliant interpreters, like Roger.
So, kudos, Roger, from all of us in the 'secular world' or sec-acad world outside the ivy columns so to speak.
We appreciate and are inspired by the work you have done and continue to do, and for reaching out... even " to be cruel to be kind" for timely Authorship analysis.
Cheers, Oxfordians -- You started a paradigm shift that echoes even more clearly in the "social" media fields than it does in the remnants of mainstream classical educational studies of source material.
Roger, your forensic analytical approach to source material handwriting is brilliant and clearly, clearly delivered even to those of us "students."
And your work, including this latest presentation, becomes part of a Legacy Return to Shakespearean Studies both inside and outside the walls of Oxford.
The Game's Afoot, Sirs. And... THANKS❤
Indeed it is! ;)
Third time watching this video and I'm still so captivated and intrigued!! This is just wonderful - thank you, thank you, thank you for your work!!!
You're most welcome.
First! #EdwarddeVere #17thEarlOfOxford
For the record, I don't like the term "Oxfordianism." But thank you for the support.
@@rstritmatter Got it. Many thanks.