Category: Tudor History

A Literary Genius or Fraud?

Shakespeare’s imagery and vast literary references include the legal and social elements of the Inns of Court, geography, history, war and weaponry, sports and games,

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The “Lost Years” Debate?

One particular Stratfordian academic theory highlights the Catholic leanings of the Shakspere family and the so-called “the lost years” and “the lost facts” that biographers

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Creative Anonymity

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”.

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The Sonnets Revisited

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

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Who Was William Shakespeare?

Who was the real person behind the pseudonymous William Shakespeare? For well over 200 years well-known literary figures and theatrical commentators have cast serious doubts

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