hakespeare Matters, the Shakespeare
Fellowship's
32-page quarterly newsletter, publishes the latest in ground-breaking scholarship and news in
Shakespeare Authorship studies. Now edited by Roger Stritmatter, PhD,
the publication includes on its editorial staff four PhD's in literary
studies -- Dr. Daniel Wright of Concordia University (English), Dr.
Felicia Londré of the University of Missouri at Kansas City (Theatre
History), Dr. Anne Pluto (English) of Leslie College and Dr. Roger
Stritmatter, Instructor of English at Coppin State College in
Baltimore, MD.
Although most of our contributors are
Oxfordians, the editors welcome submissions by independent scholars and
researchers, regardless of their conclusions about authorship. The only
requirement for publication is that the essay should yield significant
insight into the nature of the Shakespearean ouevre or era.
Shakespeare Matters
is proud of the active tradition of open intellectual exchange which
takes place in our pages; each issue typically contains as many as 3-6
letters to the editor from our informed and active readership. Several letters
in our second issue illustrate this feature of the publication,
including one from the former head of Reader Services for the
prestigious Huntington Library, who writes to dispute some aspects of
Ms. Burris' first article.
We also get lots of fan
mail: "When Shakespeare Matters arrives in my mail box," wrote one
member recently, "everything stops in my house while I read it
cover-to-cover. Forty years ago my husband's cousin (who lives in
Stratford, England) told me Shaxper didn't write the plays, and I've
been studying the subject ever since....Thank you for all your hard
work."
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