Young Shakespeare: apprentice playwright
Nothing concrete is known about what Shakespeare was doing in the years between the conceptions of his twins 1584 and …
Tag: William Shakespeare
Who wrote Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece?
Could Christopher Marlowe have been the true author of Shakespeare’s narrative poems? On April 18, 1593, a narrative poem, Venus …
Did Christopher Marlowe write Richard III?
Did Christopher Marlowe actually create one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters? The Tragedy of Richard III is one of …
Who Wrote ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’? (or Whatever Happened to ‘Love’s Labour’s Won’?)
Could ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ reveal the secret identity of the ‘real’ William Shakespeare? Love’s Labour’s Lost is a play of …
William Shakespeare and The Queen’s Men
Did Shakespeare’s apprenticeship include a stint in Queen Elizabeth’s own playing company? In the 1590s four anonymous plays were …
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. …
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 …