TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

This one was "over my head."  I'll post now for other English majors to ponder, and update after the weekend with some relevan...

I have excerpted the following from the Summer 2025 issue of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter: "Where do you begin when, at a dinner p...

Several years ago I offered a recommendation for the best book about the Shakespeare authorship controversy .  Elizabeth Winkler is not the ...

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the...

Thirteen minutes too long?  Short version: "Nobody knows when the plays were written." Cartoon credit: Conde Nast

In the Shakespeare section of TWYKIWDBI, I've alluded several times to my belief that the true author of "Shakespeare's" w...

This is a fascinating book, which will be appreciated by any serious reader of the plays, but will be of extra interest to those familiar wi...

There are lots of reasons to doubt that "the Stratford man" was the poet and author of the Shakespeare canon.   Old-time readers h...

As reported by the New York Times : For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the hel...

Explained at The Telegraph : The familiarity of the phrase 'much ado about nothing’ belies its complexity. In Shakespeare’s day '...

Excerpts from an interesting report in The Guardian : The botanist and historian Mark Griffiths on Tuesday claimed that he had discove...

For the birthday anniversary of the Stratford man, a Guardian columnist detailed one variation on the authorship controversy - that the cor...

Snap-dragon (also known as Flap-dragon) was a parlour game popular from about the 16th to 19th centuries. It was played during the winter, ...

Retailers in the U.K. are being criticized for placing on sale the t-shirt above.  Anybody who buys it will not only look really, real...

The 1596 writ charging Shakespeare with making death threats, discovered in Britain's National Archives by the Canadian scholar Lesl...

Excerpts from her biography page in Wikipedia : Judith Quiney (baptised 2 February 1585 – buried 9 February 1662), née Shakespeare, was ...

A hat tip to Bub for alerting me to the upcoming (October 28) release of the movie " Anonymous ." Those of you who are long-time...

One of my Christmas gifts this year was the book shown above, about the Shakespeare-Oxford connection. I'll review it later this w...

As I promised last week while reviewing a blog about "unfarming," I've just finished a reread of an old Edwin Way Teale boo...

Last week I blogged an entry postulating that 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was murdered by mercury poisoning. In other cove...