In December's Quadrant, Salvatore Babones mooted the theory that the Bard was actually Kit Marlowe, reports of whose death may well have been premature. William Rubinstein begs to differ. While agreeing Shakespeare was not the author of the works that bear his name, his pick, based on what would otherwise be a series of remarkable coincidences and overlapping circles, is Sir Henry Neville
From chivalric romance to seduction and temptation, from bravery and honor to trickery and shame, as far as poems go, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has it all.