Anthropologist Robin Fox -- who wrote the book on Shakespeare’s Education (Laugwitz Verlag, 2012) from an Oxfordian perspective -- was
named to the National Academy of Sciences on April 20, 2013. Fox's anti-Stratfordian book is available from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Education-Robin-Fox/dp/3933077303/. Read more about Fox on his website at http://robin-fox.com/home.htm
James Wheaton reported yesterday in the Jackson Citizen Patriot that the Michigan Shakespeare Festival high school tour of Romeo and Juliet was criticized for inappropriate content -- " So me take issue with sexual innuendoes in Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s High School Tour performances of ‘Romeo & Juliet’" : Western [High School] parent Rosie Crowley said she was upset when she heard students laughing about sexual content in the play afterwards. Her son didn’t attend the performance Tuesday because of another commitment, she said. “I think the theater company should have left out any references that were rated R,” Crowley said. “I would say that I’ve read Shakespeare, and what I was told from the students, I’ve never read anything that bad.” She said she objected to scenes that involved pelvic thrusting and breast touching and to a line in which Mercutio makes suggestive comments to Romeo after looking up the skirt of a female. The problem with cutting out...