Hundreds of Shakespeare's passages found in ALL of Thomas North's earlier writings (not just Plutarch & including his Journal!) Did Shakespeare have access to North's unpublished texts or have we finally identified the author of Shakespeare's source-plays?https://t.co/oJ9ZY3gLTU
CSMonitor on "North by Shakespeare:" "the most elegant solution to the authorship question to appear in many decades.... Orthodox scholars who simply ignore it do so at the peril of their reputations." https://t.co/voCSiW9hT9
1/10 Shakespeare’s debt to Thomas North involves not just "phrases” but 100s of passages, images, stories, & characters (beside 3 full plays). eg, Belarius hides Cymb's sons in a mount. cave to reproduce North’s fable of eagle & beetle (cited explicitly): https://t.co/VukGreWgDY
AHHHHH!!! Trending now on the Boston Globe and will be the cover of the Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday!!! So excited and proud of @4threvolt, and of course, the talents of @michaelblanding are on full display here. It is truly incredible how he captured this story.
Breaking news: In 1591-2, Thomas North wrote notes and underscored passages in his personal copy of his own “Dial of Princes.” He was using it as a workbook for “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth,” and “Arden of Faversham” https://t.co/v4dHWvUNBr, #northbyshakespeare
On 3/15, many of my #Shakespeare friends post "Remember the ides of March," but let's also remember Thomas North first wrote that line as well as many of the passages in the tragedy, https://t.co/LnZbtnRD1M, @SirThomasNorth, #northbyshakespeare
7/84 In 1928, #Shakespeare-scholar H.H. Furness noted that while the playwright was copying #ThomasNorth’s belly-fable from Plutarch, he also borrowed from North’s belly fable in Doni. Actually, he conflated THREE of North’s fables. https://t.co/GGrMQsdQg4 #NorthbyShakespeare
Turns out #antiplagiarism software does more than just checking student work. #Researchers recently used it to study a new source document #Shakespeare referenced in several of his most popular works. @4threvolt joins us to talk about the #discovery: https://t.co/nRRQyeUmtC