Tag Archives: Amelia Bassano

the unexplained: Bacon’s believe it or rot

The Shakespeare hoax. The bard’s identity game is an old one. With Freud and Mark Twain even taking a kick at the can. James Hudson had a theory, plausible, in which Shakespeare was actually a woman, Amelia Bassano, a converso … Continue reading

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The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters

Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading

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THE BEARDED LADY: Don’t Tug Too Hard On The Bard’s Beard

Ghost writing in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Why would a man whose works portray well-educated, proto-feminist women  raise his own daughter as illiterates as Shakespeare did? Amelia Bassano, on the other hand, made feminist history when she became the first English woman to … Continue reading

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MOON ROCKS & SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET AUTHOR TALKS

This year sees a 25th anniversary re- publication of Margaret Atwood‘s dystopian classic,”The Handmaid’s Tale” about an oppressive America of the future where sexual reproduction is both a eugenics of mind and action. The Handmaids are forced to provide children by proxy … Continue reading

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