Hi Kristin, thanks for the roundup. At the risk of being “one of those people,” I am impelled to ask for evidence for your assertions (“no one disputes”, “ there is plenty of evidence that”, “Bassano was mistress to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, patron of the theatre where Shakespeare acted. These three were often in the same place.”) that Shakespeare’s career as an actor is well documented, as I can find no contemporaneous evidence at all that a William Shakespeare or Shakspere ever appeared on the public stage. Other than Jonson including Shakespeare in the cast lists of Every Man In his Humour, and Sejanus in his own 1616 Folio, and the list of players in the 1623 Folio, the earliest identification of Shakespeare “the player” appears to be 1642, in the herald records documented by Heather Wolfe. It is a matter of faith among Anti-Stratfordians that Jonson’s folio paratexts cannot be taken at face value (a faith I share, which forms the central matter for my substack www.marywasshakespeare.com), which leaves essentially no evidence I am aware of for Shakespeare as an actor. Not meaning to single you out, while it is wrong to say “no one disputes” that Shakespeare was an actor (my casual survey suggests nearly half of AntiStrats suspect the Stratford man had no connection to the theater other than the name), it is a commonplace to make this concession. After carefully documenting the comparative lack of personal evidence for Shakspere as a writer, Diana Price makes him an actor and play broker, with apparently no thought to the possibility of fulfilling these much more public roles without leaving a shred of evidence. If there is any evidence that Stratford Shakespeare had a career in the theater other than being a writer I would love to know about it.
No mention of my own book in the splendid noise of alternative authors!
It is called "Debugging Shakespeare" and is good value at £19.99, to include around 330,000 words and images. I have produced abut 60 Youtube videos to help to promote it and it includes active hyperlinks to the source material in libraries and museums all over the world.
Everything is NEW research, NOT just a re-hash of old material - i.e. familiar faces with new twists.
The book even shows that JOHN MILTON (poet) was a son of the bard, using his composer alias name, "John Milton" - with a "fake" grandfather "Richard Melton", from the salt town of Melton Woodbridge (a subsidiary town to Nantwich where the salt was mainly produced - Woodbridge is mid-way between Great Yarmouth and Ipswich and the town also made ROPE!)
There has been evidence available since 1883* that John Milton (the poet) was living in "Weld's Green farm", ROPE Lane, Weld's Green**, Wistaston, near Nantwich (with OLD Mr. Milton)
Hi Kristin, thanks for the roundup. At the risk of being “one of those people,” I am impelled to ask for evidence for your assertions (“no one disputes”, “ there is plenty of evidence that”, “Bassano was mistress to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, patron of the theatre where Shakespeare acted. These three were often in the same place.”) that Shakespeare’s career as an actor is well documented, as I can find no contemporaneous evidence at all that a William Shakespeare or Shakspere ever appeared on the public stage. Other than Jonson including Shakespeare in the cast lists of Every Man In his Humour, and Sejanus in his own 1616 Folio, and the list of players in the 1623 Folio, the earliest identification of Shakespeare “the player” appears to be 1642, in the herald records documented by Heather Wolfe. It is a matter of faith among Anti-Stratfordians that Jonson’s folio paratexts cannot be taken at face value (a faith I share, which forms the central matter for my substack www.marywasshakespeare.com), which leaves essentially no evidence I am aware of for Shakespeare as an actor. Not meaning to single you out, while it is wrong to say “no one disputes” that Shakespeare was an actor (my casual survey suggests nearly half of AntiStrats suspect the Stratford man had no connection to the theater other than the name), it is a commonplace to make this concession. After carefully documenting the comparative lack of personal evidence for Shakspere as a writer, Diana Price makes him an actor and play broker, with apparently no thought to the possibility of fulfilling these much more public roles without leaving a shred of evidence. If there is any evidence that Stratford Shakespeare had a career in the theater other than being a writer I would love to know about it.
No mention of my own book in the splendid noise of alternative authors!
It is called "Debugging Shakespeare" and is good value at £19.99, to include around 330,000 words and images. I have produced abut 60 Youtube videos to help to promote it and it includes active hyperlinks to the source material in libraries and museums all over the world.
Everything is NEW research, NOT just a re-hash of old material - i.e. familiar faces with new twists.
The book even shows that JOHN MILTON (poet) was a son of the bard, using his composer alias name, "John Milton" - with a "fake" grandfather "Richard Melton", from the salt town of Melton Woodbridge (a subsidiary town to Nantwich where the salt was mainly produced - Woodbridge is mid-way between Great Yarmouth and Ipswich and the town also made ROPE!)
There has been evidence available since 1883* that John Milton (the poet) was living in "Weld's Green farm", ROPE Lane, Weld's Green**, Wistaston, near Nantwich (with OLD Mr. Milton)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KQQSiem0PSlgIMpXpFU5vRCC9bqFQzYr/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FdXxIYOnW68nkBGK1mBthFHUi9EB32Dz/view?usp=drive_link
My latest video talks about some of this, but the 59+ earlier videos show more revelations
https://youtu.be/ylqjwtxXBIs?si=P5f4J3yP3vpeGXz7
*from a Visitation of Lancashire in 1664
**now known as "Wells Green"