Young Shakespeare: apprentice playwright
Nothing concrete is known about what Shakespeare was doing in the years between the conceptions of his twins 1584 and …
Category: Shakespeare and his World
Stories and reflections on William Shakespeare’s life and works, his contemporaries and the Elizabethan theatre, the basis for my biographical novel ‘Not Wisely but Too Well’ available from Smashwords.
Shakespeare, The Novel: The Taming of the Shrew
The latest addition to my oeuvre is my novelization of William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of The Shrew’ which is now …
A Shrew by Any Other Name
Writing a novel about a writer can be challenging. We writers live in our heads and have few of the …
A Detour into the Byways of Shakespeare’s World
One of the joys of writing Not Wisely but Too Well was doing the historical and literary research. I spent …
A Glimpse into Shakespeare’s World
The image many people have of William Shakespeare is of the poetic genius writing his plays all alone in his …
Shakespearean Mysteries, Myths and Yarns
William Shakespeare is more than a mere man. He’s more than a famous author. He’s even more than a myth. …
An Introduction to the Great Shakespearean Authorship Debate
One day, several years ago, as I was wandering around my local library, I came across a book called Who …
The Enigma of Christopher Marlowe
Everyone has heard of William Shakespeare, even if they know little about him or have seen none of his plays, …
An Investigation into Shakespeare’s Lost Years
In 2012, I published Not Wisely but Too Well, an epistolary, biographical novel narrated by William Shakespeare. This was intended …