The Shakespeare Code

The Shakespeare Code is delighted to report that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008  production of Love’s Labour’s Lost….

……directed by the dashing Greg Doran…..

…..and starring the glorious David Tennant….

…..used many of the ideas in Chief Agent Stewart Trotter’s 2002 book….

The production suggested that Berowne was Shakespeare and the ‘whitely wanton’  Rosaline was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Emilia Bassano….

Dr. Paul Prescott of Warwick University also writes….

From the very moment Armado and Boyet enter the stage of Gregory Doran’s production the resemblances to contemporary illustrations of Raleigh and Chapman are blatantly obvious, from Raleigh’s feathered hat, impresssive beard and huge ruff….

….to Chapman’s signature bald patch and beard as well as his ‘antiquing’ clothes reminding us of his major souce of fame, his translation of Homer….

As Brothers and Sisters of The Code well know, Greg Doran’s name is inscribed in the coveted ‘Roll of Honour’…..

Please see: Celebrity Endorsement (6)

Greg was kind enough to write of Love’s Labour’s Found in 2004…..

The book is exqusite….

Thanks again, Greg….

The Code congratulates you on your continuing success….

To read about The Code’s current thinking on Boyet as Chapman, please click: here.

And for Raleigh as Don Armado, please click: here.

To find out why the dark-skinned Rosaline is described as ‘a whitely wanton’, please click: here.