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 …
Tag: Francis Bacon
The Theatre of a Propaganda War: The Playhouse in the Marprelate Controversy
This obscure theological debate, this grubby little propaganda war, may have had far greater consequences for the Elizabethan theatre than …
Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare? The Authorship Contenders
If William Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare, then who did? By the end of the eighteenth century, by virtue of …