In this blog I was going to write about another of WS Dark Ladies, Black Lucy Morgan. However, she will have to wait for a few days as I tell you about by latest WS book, no, it's actually an e-book, called: (sounds of roll of drums and fanfare of trumpets!)... WHO REALLY WROTE SHAKESPEARE?
This book is about Daniel Ryhope, an English lit. lecturer in a northern England university who, after hearing another lecturer call WS a "con man and a fake" sets out on a quest to see if WS really wrote WS. He is joined by his wife, Beth, and two other friends and academics who begin their search to see if England's, if not the world's most famous writer really deserved this title.
Using the university library's resources as well as Google and journeys to various WS sites in England, such as Stratford-upon-Avon, they work their way through the list of possible contenders for the title. These include: Marlowe, the Lords of Oxford, Derby and Rutland, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Henry Neville and Fulke Greville. They also check out some of the ladies, such as: Lady Mary Sidney, Queen Elizabeth I, Emilia Lanier-Bassano (I said she was a very literate lady!) and even the Bard's wife herself, Mistress Anne Hathaway!
They also see if WS could have written his works as a member of a team which may have included some of the following: Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont. Why a team? You must remember that in the days of the Virgin Queen, plays did not run for weeks or months at a time.
The population of London was about 200,000 and the theatre owners wanted a super-fast turnover of material to keep their audiences returning. As the old adage goes: Bums on seats is money in pockets and also,WS was a shareholder in the Globe theatre. Therefore it would have been impossible for one man to churn out enough plays to meet the ever-increasing demand - hence the need for team-writing.
So after many academic adventures and 290 pages, our academic sleuths while meeting in WS's birth-place come up with an answer to the SAC (Shakespeare Authorship Controversy).
Their conclusion is... ah, but I'm not going to tell you for that would spoil the fun. Incidentally, they also ask a few questions about Marlowe's sudden demise and WS's rise to fame. Is this a coincidence they ask?
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco of the Language and Literary Education Dept. of the University of Melbourne wrote the following review about my novel:
D. Lawrence-Young takes the often pompous and frequently silly "SAC" and turns it into a fast-paced and page-turning detective story. All the nooks and crannies of rival candidates and claims are traversed in interesting locations and often funny encounters. The SAC has got under the Shakespeare-loving and teaching David Lawrence-Young's skin and he has turned this irritant into a pleasure to read and from which there is much to learn.
This e-book is now available on Amazon and elsewhere and was very recently published by Troubador/Matador Publishing, Leicester, UK.
You may also be able to read it as it appeared under its original printed book title: Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Step Forward?
This book is about Daniel Ryhope, an English lit. lecturer in a northern England university who, after hearing another lecturer call WS a "con man and a fake" sets out on a quest to see if WS really wrote WS. He is joined by his wife, Beth, and two other friends and academics who begin their search to see if England's, if not the world's most famous writer really deserved this title.
Using the university library's resources as well as Google and journeys to various WS sites in England, such as Stratford-upon-Avon, they work their way through the list of possible contenders for the title. These include: Marlowe, the Lords of Oxford, Derby and Rutland, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Henry Neville and Fulke Greville. They also check out some of the ladies, such as: Lady Mary Sidney, Queen Elizabeth I, Emilia Lanier-Bassano (I said she was a very literate lady!) and even the Bard's wife herself, Mistress Anne Hathaway!
They also see if WS could have written his works as a member of a team which may have included some of the following: Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont. Why a team? You must remember that in the days of the Virgin Queen, plays did not run for weeks or months at a time.
The population of London was about 200,000 and the theatre owners wanted a super-fast turnover of material to keep their audiences returning. As the old adage goes: Bums on seats is money in pockets and also,WS was a shareholder in the Globe theatre. Therefore it would have been impossible for one man to churn out enough plays to meet the ever-increasing demand - hence the need for team-writing.
So after many academic adventures and 290 pages, our academic sleuths while meeting in WS's birth-place come up with an answer to the SAC (Shakespeare Authorship Controversy).
Their conclusion is... ah, but I'm not going to tell you for that would spoil the fun. Incidentally, they also ask a few questions about Marlowe's sudden demise and WS's rise to fame. Is this a coincidence they ask?
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco of the Language and Literary Education Dept. of the University of Melbourne wrote the following review about my novel:
D. Lawrence-Young takes the often pompous and frequently silly "SAC" and turns it into a fast-paced and page-turning detective story. All the nooks and crannies of rival candidates and claims are traversed in interesting locations and often funny encounters. The SAC has got under the Shakespeare-loving and teaching David Lawrence-Young's skin and he has turned this irritant into a pleasure to read and from which there is much to learn.
This e-book is now available on Amazon and elsewhere and was very recently published by Troubador/Matador Publishing, Leicester, UK.
You may also be able to read it as it appeared under its original printed book title: Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Step Forward?
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