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Oct 12, 1639: Globe shareholder and actor John Heminges is buried at St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. #OTD #Shakespeare

RULE - The 1st Commandment, Sonnet pair 109-110. 1st Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Sonnet 110: A God in love to whom I am confined. (excerpt from Booth, S, 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'). www.academia.edu/125775909/Th... #ShakespeareSunday

On my walk today

The Peryton, a mythical winged deer, is depicted in this sculpture at Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian, Scotland. This sculpture is part of the palace's courtyard fountain, created during the reign of King James V between 1513 and 1543. #Stuarts #Scotland

Epigraph from first work in Shakespeare's name compared with Nevill's motto: Vilia miretur vulgus * Let boors admire base things Nevill's motto: Ne vile velis * Wish for no base thing #epigraphytuesday www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...

2/2 Elizabeth I, born OTD 1533, early in her reign. Greeting Dutch ambassadors in a room decorated to look like a garden, with caged birds at the windows. Possibly painted by Levina Teerlinc.

Marianne Stokes (1855-1927), Austrian painter who settled in England, considered one of the leading women artists of her time #womensart

Shakespeare folk know the Bellott vs Mountjoy case of 1612. Shakespeare was a key witness to events ~ 10 years before. Other key witness? Humphrey Fludd - trusted courier between Neville & his secretary in Paris, 1600. www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...

NEVILLE occurs only once in 7,700 settings of the sonnets (192,000 columns). And what a sonnet ... www.academia.edu/127656765/Li...

Sonnet 64 & Eternity (at 64th letter of the dedication). N.B. 'State' in lines 9 and 10 ... the end of everything (?) #shakespearesunday

Doubter: I just can't find any real evidence FOR Shakespeare... Stratfordian: Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence! Besides stinky, there's no evidence that anyone doubted him at the time. Doubter: What was that neat thing again, about absence of evidence?

Following Shakespeare's 154 sonnets is the long poem 'A Lover's Complaint'. Line 15: The abused woman has a napkin of 'conceited characters', cf. the abused Philomel's needlework - the only textual code in classical mythology (?) - and her mutilation invoked in Sonnet 102 (below).

Letters link Sir Henry Nevill to 'Twelfth Night' entertainment. Nevill introduced Duke Orsino to Elizabeth's Court. No-one else knew of this visit - or the discovery of the lost Sebastian (with a mark 'upon his brow'). These were state secrets. www.academia.edu/126533632/Ne...

The dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets is a 'MAP' of the Sonnets. Setting out the dedication in a map grid, new words appear - the 1st letter of each maps to a Sonnet, e.g. L'ETE at 1,8 maps to Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? www.academia.edu/125775909/Th... #shakespearesunday

Shakespeare often used irony (Antony on Brutus in Julius Caesar III, ii; Lennox on Macbeth III, vi). Here, one clue that Leonard Digges is being funny re Shakespeare is that Digges himself was most famous as a translator from that "vulgar Language" Spanish.

Master William Hunnis (MrWH) - Elizabeth's dramatist (Children of Chapel 30y+) - Primary creator of Kenilworth (highest possible stakes) - Genesis specialist (onlie 'begetter') - Sonneteer - Blackfriars founder - Shakespeare's teacher?

I don't believe in an organised conspiracy to guard "Shakespeare wrote Shake-Speare". I do believe academia has protected old anecdotes & these errors have compounded to become "facts", e.g. the circular evidence of "Warwickshire" words. theconversation.com/the-bard-did...

1/6 Time Sonnets Sonnet 60, Minutes: ... our minutes hasten ... The numbers and the contents of 5 sonnets seem to reference the 5 intervals of time: minute, hour, day, month, year (+ Octave). independent.academia.edu/JamesLeyland

#EpigraphyTuesday Rosalin’s Complaint seems to be exceptional in using epigraphy to accuse or warn readers of their potential misconduct. It stands apart from more typical Renaissance prefatory material, which tends to be welcoming—or at least neutral—in tone.

Philomel Ovid... (cut out to silence her rape) her tongue wriggled on the ground, as if trying to speak. Shakespeare... Therefore, like her I sometime *hold* my tongue. Was the author silenced too?

Ben Jonson's nauseated take on Shakespeare's coat of arms (from 'Everyman out of his Humor') #shakespearesunday

Here's my Amazon review of Ms. Robertson's stellar book:

I echo this recommendation by @jamesleyland.bsky.social. As you can see in Ms. Robertson's prologue, things snapped into place the moment that she was told about the case for #SirHenryNeville.

An update from us here at PBS 💙

What should one make of an author’s biography that is unfailingly at odds with his works? * Shakespeare the writer - pities the social climber (Sonnet 125) * Shakespeare the actor - chases a coat of arms - "Non sans Droit!" (Not without Right) ... or "Not without Mustard!" as Jonson satirized it.

Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃

2 Orsinos (Dukes) and 2 castaway Sebastians - new evidence confirming a long-suspected & well-documented performance was indeed Twelfth Night (no other contemporary Shakespeare production has surviving documentation). www.academia.edu/126533632/Ne...

'Shakespeare's name is on some plays - strong evidence of authorship. AND his name's on plays he's known not to have written ... but didn't complain about. Is this the case with any other writer?

How Shakespeare saw Macbeth & the three witches (& Banquo - before he became a ghost). (from Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577).

I'm currently reading Kathleen Long's translation of the 1605 utopian satire 'The Island of Hermaphrodites': asu.pressbooks.pub/the-island-o.... And it is truly a timely publication, since this satire chimes with a lot of issues in our current historical era.

Almost every woman in Shakespeare's 40 or so plays is highly literate. Literacy is expected. Shakespeare's daughters were illiterate. Left: Judith's mark is a curly J; other text written by law clerk Right: susanna (halle)

Dugdale's 1634 sketch of Shakespeare's monument (Shax died in 1616). No pen on the monument at that time … (nor attitude of writing for that matter).

111 letters appear onstage in Shakespeare's plays many more are referred to. Despite his working away from home - no letter to or from the man has survived. #shakespearesunday Here's one from the famous letter writer John Chamberlain who mentions that "most remarquable person ...Poca-huntas"

Unlikely Shakespeare saw this … - Rosenkrans, Guldensteren www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...

The eve of the Essex rebellion (1601) - the rebels order Shakespeare's company to perform Richard II (i.e. It's OK to depose a monarch). Post-rebellion Elizabeth is furious ... but not with Shakespeare (?). He acted for her 17d later - 1d before Essex's beheading. Who did she think wrote the play?

I didn’t know rabbits liked trampolines, but then again…..

Perhaps the strongest evidence FOR Shakespeare is Jonson's 1618 visit to Drummond of Hawthornden. In Drummond's account Jonson seems uneasy re #Shakespeare: "Shakespeare wanted Art" & "Bohemia had no sea-coast" ...

Scourge of Folly - John Davies 1611 Is this the only portrait of Shakespeare from his lifetime? (by 1625 Folly is looking a lot more like the bard). N.B. Epigrams 159-161: Terence was a playwright but also famous as frontman for aristocratic poets. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ny...

For 200 years, readers of Dante & Shakespeare have noted clear parallels. But academia forbids Shakespeare to have read Dante. Dante was not translated & Shax couldn't read Italian. This stunning & humble book proves that the author did. www.amazon.com/Images-Antiq...

1599 Henry V - Strangely Shakespeare writes several scenes in poor (?) French. Crunelle-Vanrigh suggests this is Norman French mangled by non-French typesetters; easier to understand, more historically accurate. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 1599 Henry Nevill prepares for Embassy to France.

No Shakespeare eulogy for Queen Elizabeth, 1603. None of 32 from other poets for young Prince Henry, 1612 (public grief as for Princess Diana). Why was Shakespeare silent at auspicious funerals? (and his own epitaph/curse ... so crummy) #shakespearesunday

The top theatre expert of Shakespeare's day was George Buc; he notes Shakespeare twice. In both notes Buc disputes what Shakespeare says re authorship. #shakespearesunday

Rosalin’s Complaint seems to be exceptional in using epigraphy to accuse or warn readers of their potential misconduct. It stands apart from more typical Renaissance prefatory material, which tends to be welcoming—or at least neutral—in tone.

Epigraph on the volume containing Shakespeare's Phoenix & Turtle: Mutare dominum non potest liber notus A noted book cannot change its author - Martial's "Epigram to a Plagiarist"