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In 2008, John Hudson, scholar and theatre producer, introduced the idea that Lanier wrote the works of Shakespeare. [2] [5] [6] Hudson found similarities between the works of Shakespeare and Lanier's poetry book Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. He also noted her educated background and cosmopolitan upbringing as support of the idea.
Orville Ward Owen. Dr. Orville Ward Owen (January 1, 1854 – March 31, 1924) was an American physician, and exponent of the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship. Owen claimed to have discovered hidden messages contained in the works of Shakespeare/Bacon.
A musical The Dark Lady by Sophie Boyce and Veronica Mansour is in development, depicting the "what if" scenario whereby Lanier uses William Shakespeare's name in order to have her plays seen. The musical has been developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (2023) and Goodspeed Musicals (2024) with a cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway favourites.
Anthony Holden says that the book became "something of a publishing phenomenon" – a 750-page survey of Shakespeare which gained bestseller status and drew widespread attention to its author. "If his analyses are boldly colloquial," says Holden, "at times so sounding almost as if they were dictated, his insights are unfailingly original and ...
Shakespeare on the other hand shared a reciprocal love with both his lovers; the objects of his love were “articulate, active partners.” [20] Shakespeare's sonnets are divided between his two lovers: sonnets 1–126 for a male, and sonnets 127–152 for a female; the first to a fair youth, and the second to a dark lady. Petrarch's sonnets ...
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies is a 2023 nonfiction book by journalist Elizabeth Winkler about the Shakespeare authorship question. The book uses journalism and literary criticism to explore the possibility that the works of Shakespeare were written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon .
Back in March, the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) received two books checked out by the family of music legend Morris Perelmuter King in the 1920s and were finally returned to their St ...
Gertrude Mabel Barrows was born in Minneapolis in 1884, to Charles and Caroline Barrows (née Hatch). Her father, a Civil War veteran from Illinois, died in 1892. [8] [dubious – discuss] Gertrude completed school through the eighth grade, [3] then attended night school in hopes of becoming an illustrator (a goal she never achieved).