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Shakespeare’s hardy audience
To understand a person, or a people it helps to know what childhood was like for them and how family relationships were formed. According to Lawrence Stone, author of The Family, Sex, and Marriage in...
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Did Shakespeare know Pindar?
Long before Plato, it was the poet Pindar who set the standard for poetry for the ancient Greeks. Both Shakespeare and Pindar are seen as the great poets of their nations and both were located at...
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Calling all historians!
Long ago, in the timeless realm we call Literature, a certain fox, we’ll call him Reynard, dragged a stinky red herring across the trail of a certain Court poet, sending the yelping hounds who were...
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Reviewed: Diana Price’s Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography
Diana Price has come out with a new edition of her 2001 Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography. Having missed the first edition, here was my opportunity to get what must be one of the most important books...
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Did Shakespeare die on the 24th of June?
Highly unlikely! We’ve just passed one of the two major turning points of the ancient festal year, June 24th, Midsummer’s Day. The modern world pays little attention to this annual event, but that...
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Shakespeare ignored by the Academy
It is a marvelous irony that the univerities who now claim all authority over Shakespeare spent the first three centuries assiduously ignoring him. As the respected Shakespeare scholar Frederick Boas...
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Unravelling the Mystery: The Professor and the un-Countess
Reviewing Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe by Chris Laoutaris; Penguin, 2014 The great mystery, of course, is how and by what means the London Stage was brought to...
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A little history is a useful thing
I’m back It’s been almost four months since I’ve blogged or added anything to this site. Why? Because I’ve been in the final throes of finishing the book I’ve been working on for the past eight years,...
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Trolls and tribulations
This has been a tough week for a lot of Americans, myself included. Hit with rough words, not once but twice, my sense of myself as purveyor of truths relevant to the Shakespeare authorship question...
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Oxford’s “monstrous adversary”
While it may be understandable why the Academy would cling to the Stratford biography as yet another manifestation of the human tendency to prefer the tried and untrue to anything too radical, there is...
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