An overly worried (vain, egocentric) Professor
"How will people be looking at me, like
'Oh, you're from Guelph" .
Andrew Bretz , English Professor at the University of Guelph (Canada), is worried: reputation may be hurt with the school's decision to support S.Gilbert (Guelph University associate Professor) in attending a four-day conference on the true authorship of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry in Toronto, hosted by the 2 leading Oxfordian associations in USA: Shakespeare Fellowship and the Shakespeare Oxford Society.
The University of Guelph and York University had each given $2,000 to the conference to enable students from all over to attend at a discounted price.
Prof.Bretz publicly criticized (Oct. 19, 2013) university involvement in the
Shakespeare authorship conference, the authorship debate has already been settled, with most scholars in agreement that William Shakspere of Stratford is the true author of the work.
The university's decision to support this conference could end up hurting its academic reputation among other schools. Bretz said for the conference to actually teach and promote the Oxfordian view to students is "shoddy scholarship, to the extreme.
and
Everyone involved should be embarrassed,...if this makes big news and I go to a Shakespeare conference down the road, will people be looking at me, like 'oh, you're from Guelph" .
Shakespeare authorship conference, the authorship debate has already been settled, with most scholars in agreement that William Shakspere of Stratford is the true author of the work.
The university's decision to support this conference could end up hurting its academic reputation among other schools. Bretz said for the conference to actually teach and promote the Oxfordian view to students is "shoddy scholarship, to the extreme.
and
Everyone involved should be embarrassed,...if this makes big news and I go to a Shakespeare conference down the road, will people be looking at me, like 'oh, you're from Guelph" .
