2009 Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference - Reporting from Portland (Part II)
Picking up where I left off yesterday, here are several pix and brief notes on other presentations from the 2009 SASC in Portland.
Prof. Roger Stritmatter (Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland) presented the case for the island in The Tempest being an obscure little island in the Mediterranean ("Where in the World? Geogrpahy and Irony in The Tempest"). But even though obscure in one sense of the word, the island was well-documented in ancient days as a way station for sailors and pirates of the day. Stritmatter also made his case for this island based on parallels between Orlando Furioso and The Tempest.
Prof. Roger Stritmatter giving his presentation
Continuing on the theme of geography, Oxfordian author Richard Whalen presented a paper on connections between Othello and Cyprus ("Othello's Harbingers on Cyprus Suggest in Their Dramatic Poetry that The Dramatist Had Been There."). Whalen compared details from the play with maps of sections of Cyprus to make his case.
Richard Whalen on Othello and Cyprus
That's all for today (got to get to the airport soon and back to Boston). I will pick up with my conference report in a few more days.
Prof. Roger Stritmatter (Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland) presented the case for the island in The Tempest being an obscure little island in the Mediterranean ("Where in the World? Geogrpahy and Irony in The Tempest"). But even though obscure in one sense of the word, the island was well-documented in ancient days as a way station for sailors and pirates of the day. Stritmatter also made his case for this island based on parallels between Orlando Furioso and The Tempest.
Continuing on the theme of geography, Oxfordian author Richard Whalen presented a paper on connections between Othello and Cyprus ("Othello's Harbingers on Cyprus Suggest in Their Dramatic Poetry that The Dramatist Had Been There."). Whalen compared details from the play with maps of sections of Cyprus to make his case.
That's all for today (got to get to the airport soon and back to Boston). I will pick up with my conference report in a few more days.
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