About

I am an independent researcher into the life and times of Shakespeare. My main interest is in how some of Shakespeare's works, differently understood, may illuminate his connections with other writers, personages or works of the time.

Two pages on this site, Guy of Warwick and Sonnets, provide detail of the two works that I have mainly focused on to date, and the Articles page provides copies of all my published articles.

The Posts page shows a chronological list of all posts on this site. As you will see there, up until 2013 all the posts relate to the problem of Guy of Warwick (and, connectedly, The Two Gentlemen of Verona), followed by a break of six years. The lengthy break was because my priority changed after 2013 to investigating the mystery of the identity of the Young Man of Shakespeare's Sonnets, a long and winding road which finally ended with publication of an article on the subject in the September 2019 issue of Notes and Queries. That article did not end the whole Sonnets journey, though. As I noted, the hypothesis I put forward there offers 'one possibility for fresh interpretation of these remarkable poems'. An aim of this blog will be to discuss such fresh interpretations in detail.

The 2013 and earlier posts are from my original Guy of Warwick blog, which is now superseded by this one.

Unless otherwise specified, all quotes from Shakespeare's Sonnets in my posts are from the original 1609 Quarto, commonly known as Q.