Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon
I’d like to introduce a new game called “Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon.” If people like the game and want to play it, I will make it a regular feature on the blog. You are given a famous person from...
View ArticleShakespeare Teacher Special Feature
Well, I’m off to the Shakespeare Teacher conference. I’m very excited about attending, but it means that I may have to step away from the blog for a few days. I’ll post when I can, but I’ll probably be...
View ArticleLies Like Truth
So, this article has been getting a lot of attention on the Internet, and I feel I need to respond: In a radio programme to be aired today, Scots historian Fiona Watson and literary expert Molly Rourke...
View ArticleShakespeare’s Lawyer
Excerpts from a mock trial questioning Shakespeare’s authorship: For more on the authorship question, check out this 1964 article by William Murphy.
View ArticleWhisper Down the Lane
I wanted to clear up that my post last week, Lies Like Truth, was criticizing the article in the Scotsman and not necessarily the academics being cited. If, in fact, they are making the claim that the...
View ArticleGo Ahead. It’s the Internet.
You can say anything you want: For hundreds of years, people have questioned whether William Shakespeare wrote the plays that bear his name. The mystery is fueled by the fact that his biography simply...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Have you ever wondered about those “other” plays mentioned in the last act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the options that Theseus doesn’t choose? The titles seem kind of random and nonsensical. Could...
View ArticleShakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I caused quite a bit of controversy in the academic world with my last anagram that demonstrated that Sir Francis Bacon may be the true author of Shakespeare’s works. Now, I make amends. At the end of...
View ArticleDouble Googleplex – 1/10/10
I subscribe to a service called “SiteMeter” which allows me to see a limited amount of information about my visitors. One thing that I can see is if someone finds my site via a Google search, and what...
View ArticleMonkey Business
Via the Shakespeare Geek, we learn of a website called Shakespearean Monkey, written by a middle school-aged kid: Monkeys are smart. Though they haven’t created cars or trains or weapon, they are...
View ArticleThe Hartfordian Theory
The release of the birth certificate certainly proves that someone named Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. But Hartfordians don’t deny that Barack Obama exists; we just don’t believe that he is...
View ArticleFilm: Anonymous
I went to see Anonymous, the new Roland Emmerich film questioning the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, with cautious anticipation. What I was not expecting was to be thoroughly entertained by a...
View ArticleAnother Story
The Klaxon invaders lit up the starship corridor with weapons fire, as Alliance scientists and technicians dove for cover on the other end. Klaxons had a reputation for ruthless violence, but nothing...
View ArticleTheatre: Richard III at the Belasco
In a NYC Shakespeare season filled with a Macbeth here and a Midsummer there, with two productions of Romeo and Juliet running and another two Kings Lear on the horizon, it would be hard for a single...
View ArticleBe Not Offended, Dear Cesario
SuchShakespeareStuff is now Shakespeare Geek. I was checking out the links over there when I came across a post by someone named Cesario listing her ten unpopular opinions about Shakespeare. I don’t...
View ArticleShakespeare Memes
Happy 455th Birthday to Shakespeare! In honor of the occasion, I present… Shakespeare Memes!
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