Spearshaker: Shakespeare in the Sidney Circle

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Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, may be the most logical and likely candidate for the authorship of the Shakespearean canon.

Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just debatable borderlands? Pop culture, history, and identity observations on an intermittent basis.

Anglo-Italian translator, linguist, royal language tutor, poet.

Attempting to pilot the laden tanker of the Shakespeare authorship question into the small and well-policed harbour of respectable academic research.