The Droeshout Portrait:
November 17, 2021
If one examines the first engraving presented of the portrait of William Shakespeare in the 1623 Folio publication of plays one will note there are
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If one examines the first engraving presented of the portrait of William Shakespeare in the 1623 Folio publication of plays one will note there are
I have already written at length highlighting the numerous anomalies that would undermine the notion that the jobbing actor, William Shagspere of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the
From the early 15th to the late 16th centuries in England the handwriting style had been described as evolving from the early medieval period and imitated the
It is somewhat uncertain exactly when William Shagspere left for London but I suspect either the Earl of Warwick’s Men, who were transferred to the
Alongside of the myth of Shakespeare’s humble and unassuming character is the popular assertion of Stratfordian academics that Shakespeare’s work is largely eclectic, that he
Despite the differences in their inherent skills, family background and status it occurred to me that there are some remarkable similarities between the lives of
There is a great body of literature that was written anonymously especially that of primitive societies of an oral tradition, for example the “Homeric Tradition”.
With regard to the popular claim by Stratfordians that Edward de Vere’s status and character do not reflect what in my view is a “myth
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Edward de Vere It has been said that Shakespeare was first and foremost a poet and secondly a dramatist (A Companion to