- 14 Jan – Macbeth: Black and White and Red All Over
[Joel Coen’s Expressionist ‘Macbeth’] - 05 Jan – The Jesuit Under the Floorboards
[I investigate unexpected comments about myself in a book about my executed cousin]
- 10 Dec – Moonlighting with Mose
[My 2021 ends with something dramaturgical, non-Shake-Spearean (mostly), and posted elsewhere] - 07 Oct – Lost and Found
[What I lost in 1591 was not my ring] - 08 Sep – Play On 1: Musing About Musicals
[#1 in a series about music in Shake-Speare’s life and work] - 24 Jun – Limerick 19: Fortune’s Dearest Spite Returns
[On my 417th deathday I explain my recent ghostly absence and its connection to Sonnet 37] - 21 Feb – Hostage to Catalonia
[A shakedown, a translation experiment, and a new discovery about the real Don Quixote]
- 14 Oct – First Folio 2: You Are Not For All Markets
[Epilogue: The result of today’s auction] - 13 Oct – First Folio 1: Sell When You Can
[Prologue: A 1623 First Folio finally goes to auction] - 16 Sep – Limerick 18: Ode for the De Vere Society
[Lauding the new DVS website, with a peek at my picture] - 08 Sep – Forsooth, Five Years
[The blog’s first half-decade, and what lies ahead for Oxfordians] - 13 Jul – Verse In Time To Come
[A personal take on the goals of poetry, and how to achieve them] - 13 Jul – Poem: Mommy, by Prince Hamlet
[Accompanies the post Verse In Time To Come] - 07 Jun – Such News As This
[A news-less First Folio auction update, and new manicules in a new book on my shelf] - 18 Mar – Diseases Desperate Growne
[A First Folio was to be auctioned in New York next month, but the plans have changed] - 25 Feb – Essex: A Stranger to Moderation
[Another beheading: the Earl of Essex, 419 years ago] - 12 Feb – Poem: Twelfth Day of February
[Short semi-elegy in mostly trochaic tetrameter] - 25 Jan – Limerick 17: Not Nonsense
[Shake-Speare’s connections to the limerick, in verse and prose]
- 23 Dec – Marvellous Searching Engines
[Ongoing site work, and visual evidence that Willy can’t SEO] - 24 Nov – Certain Convocations
[Hello Redditors, and a worthwhile new post/video] - 01 Oct – Proving My Pudding
[Eponymity on a plate] - 26 Sep – Shake-Speare’s Schoolbooks
[More about Sir Thomas Smith’s books in the Old Library at Queens’ College, Cambridge] - 30 Aug – Look Upon His Like(ness) Again
[A portrait of me that isn’t, and who it is] - 30 Aug – Thomas Hawkes, The Martyr I Almost Knew
[Accompanies the post Look Upon His Like(ness) Again] - 12 Aug – Limerick 16: A Sirius Question
[Heliacally rising in a northern sky near you] - 31 Jul – The Stroke and Line of his Great Justice
[A legacy from the late US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens] - 30/31 May – Limerick 15: The Revenge of Queen Tomyris
[My Herodotus is auctioned – before and after, 30/31 May] - 28 May – It Was No Carnival in Flanders
[My four-week trip to the Eighty Years’ War] - 20 May – Sonnets Day
[Showing their birth, and where they did proceed] - 26 Apr – The Graver’s Strife
[Was Martin Droeshout a lousy engraver?] - 03 Apr – To Z Or Not To Z
[Reader Poll: Should I return to Oxford endings?] - 25 Mar – Plastering the Inveterate Canker
[Bearishly belittling Bill’s bandages]
- 01 Oct – Blog Birthday Reader Survey
[I ask readers to answer a few authorship-related questions] - 13 Sep – Shrew 3: Brush Up Your Oxford
[‘Kiss Me, Kate’ and Cole Porter’s problematic lyrics, which I revise and repurpose] - 05 Sep – Shrew 2: Whips and Changes
[Adaptations and alterations in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’] - 06 Aug – Shrew 1: My Household Stuff
[Unpacking ‘The Taming of the Shrew’] - 15 Jul – St Swithin’s Dud
[What could have been, had we conquered Croatia: a little touch of Harry in the afternoon] - 24 Jun – A Flourish With Drums and Trumpets
[My eponymous march, including a playlist with variations] - 24 Jun – Limerick 14: Jeff’s Journey
[A limerical biography of a good friend] - 24 Jun – Limerick 13: Randolph Scott
[Tribute to an icon of the celluloid West] - 06 Jun – Willy and the Strats
[New lyrics for an Elton John tune] - 30 May – In Obitum Christopher Marlowe
[On the anniversary of Marlowe’s death, his snarky Latin trolling of a dead judge] - 14 Mar – Seven Times Fourteener
[A hodge-pudding of heptameter] - 10 Mar – Howards Beginning
[A selective chronology of the early Howard Dukes of Norfolk] - 01 Mar – The Apian Demiſe of the Accurſed ſ
[Tempest-uous typographical trivia] - 11 Feb – Online Shakespeare Authorship Course, And It’s Free
[A step forward in Authorship education] - 08 Feb – Trying to Remember Trying Mary is Trying
[Redrawing the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, including a sonnet] - 07 Jan – Worked Too Well
[A short conversation about an old joke]
- 28 Sep – Book Review: Strong Stuff
[Reviewing ‘The Life and Death of King Edward’ by Joshua Gray] - 13 Sep – A Late Summer Afternoon’s Daydream
[Recalling Max Reinhardt’s 1935 film of MND] - 06 Sep – Patronage Alla Fiorentina
[Florence, the Medici, and artistic patronage] - 24 Aug – Doodling and Noodling
[A newly-found example of my handwriting, and what it signifies] - 18 May – Limerick 3: Back In Black & White
[A new poem of mine is published as part of an important centenary] - 26 Apr – Mad North North West
[My failed investment in Canadian mining, referenced in ‘Hamlet’] - 20 Apr – Sonnet 60B: Thoughts at 467, better late than never
[I rewrote Sonnet 60 for my 467th birthday on the 12th] - 21 Mar – Something, Something, and Statistics
[Stratfordian stylometry and ‘The New Oxford Shakespeare Authorship Companion’] - 18 Mar – Smell the Gloves, Part 2
[Uncovering the origin of the Oxford Glove meme, with some pentameter at the end] - 12 Mar – Smell the Gloves, Part 1
[The real story of the perfumed gloves I gave to Elizabeth] - 04 Mar – Guest Poet Ben Jonson: To the Reader. Try Again.
[Jonson’s second attempt at his First Folio introduction] - 26 Feb – 393 Years of Printing: Plays to Pancakes on a Pilgrimage
[My visit with a copy of the First Folio]
- 05 Jul – Oh Put Me In Thy Bookes
[My visit with a couple of noteworthy old books written about me] - 10 Jun – A Lot of Hot Air
[Degassing an old falsehood] - 03 Jun – Stab Him, He’s a Murderer
[A particular example of Stratfordian uncivility] - 02 Jun – Exeter Exegesis
[The Exeter pedigree, from the 8th Marquess back to William Cecil] - 12 May – Henry IV and the Holy Grail
[Monty Python mashes up 2H4 with their movie about King Arthur] - 08 May – Limerick 12: limerical ode to LCFC
[A new poem about a football team, of all things] - 06 May – Let Him Die For’t
[The Sonnets meet 3D printing] - 05 May – Limerick 11: tweet tweet
[A short poem, but not short enough] - 02 May – Announcing #Oxford467
[Advance notice for my 467th birthday] - 27 Apr – Tweeting the Sonnets: #Bard154
[Joshua Gray’s project to convert my Sonnets to tweets] - 25 Apr – Two Gentlemen of Southeastern England
[Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance discuss The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt] - 23 Apr – Four Centuries of Skonk
[Connecting a modern work of postmodern fiction to the 400th anniversary of the death of Willy of Stratford] - 23 Apr – Limerick 8: editorial: 400 years of undeath
[An anti-commemorative poem for an over-commemorated day] - 02 Mar – Limerick 10: Hamlet’s Solimericquy
[Rewriting Hamlet’s soliloquy as a limerick] - 25 Feb – Limerick 9: all good writing comes from life
[A new poem expressing my agreement with Red Smith] - 23 Feb – Two Palms Are Not Enough
[The Stratford-on-Avon District Council commissions a fitting portrait] - 21 Feb – Sonnet 155: new subject, less cryptic
[My first new sonnet in a very long time] - 14 Feb – Limerick 6: a love-ly wish for valentine’s day
[New poem for Valentine’s Day] - 13 Feb – Ophelia’s Little Valentine
[Alex Epstein gets the point about Ophelia] - 11 Feb – Sonnet 73 and Limerick 5: once in a while I get serious, sort of
[Sonnet 73 as written, and rewritten as a limerick] - 10 Feb – Limerick 4: i’m a ricardian at heart
[A short limerick about Richard III] - 08 Feb – Heads-Up on a Heads-Off
[Mary Stuart’s execution and its place in the history of cinema] - 08 Feb – Limerick 2: sui generis my foot
[A new poem making an important point about talent] - 06 Feb – Limerick 1: because 154 sonnets are enough already
[A new poem about Henry VIII, my first real foray into limericks] - 25 Jan – What You Will, or What You Won’t
[The satire in ‘Twelfth Night’ that almost nobody gets] - 20 Jan – Protesting Too Much
[Why can’t Stratfordians take a joke?]
- 05 Nov – Why Macbeth Isn’t About the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
[Correcting a recently promulgated temporal error] - 29 Oct – Hamlet and Executions
[A little-known clue to the correct dating of ‘Hamlet’] - 01 Oct – I Didn’t Gild the Lily
[Clarifying one of my most commonly misquoted phrases]
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