A TRIXIE SPECIAL
One of Chief Agent Stewart Trotter’s first jobs was to write for the Times Literary Supplement…
He started to do this when he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge….
He was passing judgement on the tomes of learned Professors before he even graduated….
But because all writing for the paper in those days was anonymous, no-one knew it was him…
He went on to write to review novels for the T. L. S….
However, a lot of his meagre reviewing fee was used up in dashing his copy (and himself) over to Printing House Square in a taxi….
There were no e-mails or even faxes in those days….
And what remained of his fee was used in drinking in the pub with the Literary Editor, the late great Ian Hamilton….
After which, the two would stagger back to the paper’s offices…..
Ian would throw him another bundle of books for the next week’s edition…
And it was back to the solitude of a bed-sit in Kilburn…
So it’s wonderful to see the luminaries at Stewart’s old paper….
CATCHING UP WITH THE SHAKESPEARE CODE!!!
In this week’s edition (20th April, 2012) Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith, in a piece entitled ‘Many Hands’, state:
It is now broadly acknowledged that he [Shakespeare] collaborated ….with Nashe on 1 Henry VI in the early 1590’s.
The Shakespeare Code has been arguing from its inception that Thomas Nashe collaborated with Shakespeare on Henry VI Part One….
But The Code also believes that Nashe collaborated on many other plays as well, viz…..
Henry VI Parts Two and Three, Richard III, Edmund Ironside, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Parts One and Two, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It…..
…..in fact right up to Twelfth Night in 1601 in which Nashe PLAYED and WROTE the part of Feste….
(See: Feste the Clown as Thomas Nashe)
After 1601, Shakespeare wrote NO MORE GREAT COMEDIES for one simple reason…..
THOMAS NASHE WAS DEAD!!!
We know for certain that Nashe collaborated with Christopher Marlowe…..
…..and with Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogges…..
So why not with William Shakespeare?
Dozens of phrases in Shakespeare’s plays are IDENTICAL to phrases in Nashe’s pamphlets…
For The Code’s ACADEMIC treatment of this subject please see:
The Strange Case of Mr. Apis Lapis.
……an essay that has garnered praise from no less an authority than Prof. Jonathan Bate……
……who wrote…..
It’s a terrific article and very persuasive….
All this can be read in dramatic form in The Code’s:
It can also be see LIVE ON STAGE from 23rd – 26th May in the Great Barn in Titchfield in Stewart’s new play….
OUR COUSIN WILL….
(Please CLICK HERE for more information)
NOT ONLY DOES THE T.L.S. ENDORSE THE CODE’S THEORY THAT SHAKESPEARE COLLABORATED WITH NASHE…..
It also argues that All’s Well That Ends Well……
….WAS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED IN 1609….
……A DATE THE CODE HAS BEEN ARGUING FOR FOR YEARS….
Maguire and Smith use linguistic analysis to back their case….
THE CODE, OF COURSE, USES HISTORY AND LIFE!!!
BERTRAM – the ‘lascivious boy’ in the play……
…… with his…..
his arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls…
…is exactly the same as the Aristocratic Seducer in A Lover’s Complaint…..
ALSO PUBLISHED IN 1609….
……with his….
browny locks….
…. which…..
hung in crooked locks…..
And, The Code, argues, both Betram and the Seducer from A Lover’s Complaint are based on…
HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, THIRD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON!!!
But not only do Maguire and Smith endorse The Code, they endorse…..
JOHN DOVER WILSON, C. H.
…..the Patron Saint of The Shakespeare Code….
Dover Wilson argues that in 1594 Shakespeare worked in Titchfield as the Tutor to the Third Earl….
If he’d had the same information that The Code has uncovered, Your Cat firmly believes that he would have stated that …….
SHAKESPEARE WAS A SCHOOLMASTER IN TITCHFIELD AS WELL!!!
(See: Shakespeare was a Schoolmaster in the Country: TITCHFIELD!)
Your Cat’s saucer truly runneth over….
‘Bye, now…
The Shakespeare Code 
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