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Venus and Adonis and the Legacy of Philip Sidney
The Birth of Shakespeare
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That Women Are But Men's Shadows
Why were Mary Sidney's connections to Shakespeare ignored for 400 years?
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Shakespeare's Shadow
What does Mary Sidney have to do with Shakespeare anyway?
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Heart of Darkness: My journey into the madness of Shakespeare Authorship
In this post I share my personal journey from respectable Marketing professor to obsessive investigator of early modern English literature.
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Thy Stratford Moniment
Not in Jonson’s poem, but in another dedicatory poem from Leonard Digges a few pages later, we find ‘thy Stratford Moniment,’ the other half of the…
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Sweet Swan of Avon
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 4
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Wits to Read: Francis Meres and Shakespeare’s Small Latin
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 3
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Bauds, Whores and William Basse
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 2
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To the Memory of my Beloved
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare
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Jonson, the Herberts and the First Folio
How the Spanish Match, an illicit affair and an untimely death affected the printing of Shakespeare's works.
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The Upstart Crow
Are there anagrams in Greene?
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Why Ben Jonson Writes Not of Love
William Bellamy: Ben Jonson and the Art of Anagram
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