The Shakespeare Code

The great actor, writer, literary critic, biographer, raconteur and wit…..

SIMON CALLOW…

….has once again endorsed The Shakespeare Code’s theory that William Shakespeare lived and worked in Titchfield, Hampshire.

This theory was first proposed by The Code’s Chief Agent,  Stewart Trotter, in his ground-breaking book, Love’s Labour’s Found (2002)…..

….which Simon was kind enough to read and praise when it was published.

In ‘Guestlist’ in The Sunday Telegraph’s  Seven Magazine (9 October, 2011), under the heading Shakespearean Sightseeing Simon writes….

TITCHFIELD ABBEY, Hampshire. The Abbey’s owner, the Earl of Southampton, was a patron of Shakespeare, who is thought to have spent time here, mingling with the magnificent court of painters, philosophers and musicians and enjoying the fabulous gardens and stupendous library. The experience influenced Shakespeare’s writing, which soon became full of courtiers and sophisticated intellectual banter, and the Abbey’s ruins still give a strong sense of the glamorous new world he had entered…

Thank you, Simon, once again….

(Simon is an Inductee into The Shakespeare Code’s coveted ‘Roll of Honour’. You can read his earlier endorsements by clicking here, and here.)

Simon tours the country in Dr. Marigold and Mr. Chops until early December.