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Christmas romances are a staple of the season, but this fall also brings some love stories appropriate for Halloween, featuring magic, monsters, and even a couple of mortuaries.
On April 26, 1564, 460 years ago, the baptism of one "William Shakspere" was recorded in the provincial town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. According...
As the on-and-off travelling companion of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who he gained a cult following
Richard Franklin, the actor, who died on Christmas Day aged 87, spent much of his career on stage but gained a cult following for his role as Captain Mike Yates, on-and-off travelling companion of the third incarnation of Doctor Who, played by Jon Pertwee.
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