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Venus and Adonis and the Legacy of Philip Sidney
The Birth of Shakespeare
Sep 23, 2024 • 
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Venus and Adonis and the Legacy of Philip Sidney
That Women Are But Men's Shadows
Why were Mary Sidney's connections to Shakespeare ignored for 400 years?
Sep 22, 2024 • 
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That Women Are But Men's Shadows
Shakespeare's Shadow
What does Mary Sidney have to do with Shakespeare anyway?
Sep 22, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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Shakespeare's Shadow
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.
Sep 22, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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Heart of Darkness: My journey into the madness of Shakespeare Authorship
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…
Sep 22, 2024 • 
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Thy Stratford Moniment
Sweet Swan of Avon
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 4
Sep 22, 2024 • 
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Sweet Swan of Avon
Wits to Read: Francis Meres and Shakespeare’s Small Latin
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 3
Sep 22, 2024 • 
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Wits to Read: Francis Meres and Shakespeare’s Small Latin
Bauds, Whores and William Basse
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare Part 2
Sep 21, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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Bauds, Whores and William Basse
To the Memory of my Beloved
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare
Sep 21, 2024 • 
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To the Memory of my Beloved
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.
Sep 20, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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Jonson, the Herberts and the First Folio
The Upstart Crow
Are there anagrams in Greene?
Sep 20, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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The Upstart Crow
Why Ben Jonson Writes Not of Love
William Bellamy: Ben Jonson and the Art of Anagram
Sep 20, 2024 • 
David W Richardson

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Why Ben Jonson Writes Not of Love
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