Yea the illiterate, that know not how
To cipher what is writ in learned books
The Rape of Lucrece, lines 861-62
Not everyone owns books. I won’t mention any names. I have a library full of them. Here are some that I think worthy of mention. No particular order. I’ll add more as time allows.
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Shakespeare and Authorship:
Dating Shakespeare’s Plays: A Critical Review of the Evidence
Edited by Kevin Gilvary
Parapress, 2010, paperback, 520 pages
Monty Python, Shakespeare, and English Renaissance Drama
by Darl Larsen
McFarland & Co, 2003, paperback, 243 pages
(Python is the second-best thing that England has ever produced.)
The Oxfordian (annual journal)
by The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship (@ShakeOxFellows)
various contributors
“Shakespeare” By Another Name (my newest biography)
by Mark Anderson (@markawriter)
Gotham Books/Penguin Group USA, 2005 (hardback), 640 pages
also paperback, audiobook, and ebook formats
(If you’re new to the Authorship Question, this is a good place to start.)
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Fiction:
The Lost Scrapbook / The Easy Chain / Flee
by Evan Dara
Aurora, 1995/2008/2013, paperbacks, 476/502/239 pages
License to Quill
by Jacopo della Quercia (@Jacopo_della_Q)
St. Martin’s Griffin, December 2015, paperback, 384 pages
(I take issue with his premise, but it’s still a bang-up yarn.)
Cow Country
by Adrian Jones Pearson
Cow Eye Press, April 2015, hardback, 540 pages
also paperback, audiobook, and ebook formats
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Absent from my desk, not by my choice:
My Bible (It belongs to me. I want it back.)
printed by John Crispin, Geneva
MDLXX (1570)
immured at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA
photos courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
I underlined Revelation 14:13 for a reason.
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Absent on principle:
A work of delusion imagination with a numerical title, two years after I died. When I’m in the mood for fiction I’ll read Dara or JdQ – their books are much more entertaining, and properly classified.
If you must go look it up, then please read this as well.
UK Amazon link: Contested Year: Errors, Omissions and Unsupported Statements in James Shapiro’s “1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear”
US Amazon link: Contested Year: Errors, Omissions and Unsupported Statements in James Shapiro’s “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606”
Edited by Mark Anderson, Alexander Waugh, and Alex McNeil
Amazon Kindle edition, 2016, 136 (print) pages
It will only set you back 99p/99¢.
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VERO NIHIL VERIUS
