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In an obscure play, he offers an important “case for strangers.”

Chettle Court, between Ridge Road and the railway line, Hornsey, N8.  I must start by acknowledging the information supplied by Valerie Crosby at Haringey arch…

Dori Engal: “Shakespeare is the best-known person about whom very little is known.”

Around three years into his career as a dramatist, Shakespeare’s blank verse—his unrhymed iambic pentameter—came under attack. We might wonder whether the passage from "Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit" was right?

Speaking at the British Science Festival in Leicester, Professor Gabriel Egan, from De Montfort University, said Shakespeare had a hand in 43 plays, while 14 were co-authored.

A third of the Bard's plays have the linguistic fingerprints of other writers suggesting he wrote collaboratively