The Shakespeare Code

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM TRIXIE THE CAT

The Code’s Chief Agent, Stewart Trotter, appeared on BBC1 Television’s……

 …..on THURSDAY, 10th MAY, 2012.

The dazzling Director and Producer, Carol White, had filmed Stewart  in conversation with the celebrated comic, writer, literateur and wit, ARTHUR SMITH….

……at the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester…..

……where Stewart showed Arthur the famous ‘1610’ map of Titchfield……

…..with features mentioned in Love’s Labour’s Lost….‘The Park’ and ‘The Place’…..

See: Shakespeare in Titchfield: a Summary of the Evidence.

Stewart also showed Arthur the will of William Beeston……

……who, The Code argues, was the original of Thomas Nashe’s ‘Mr. Apis Lapis’ and of William Shakespeare-Nashe’s Falstaff…..

See: Why Falstaff is Fat and The Strange Case of Mr. Apis Lapis.

Carol also filmed at the ravishing, oak-beamed, Great Posbrook Farm….

….the old home of William Beeston, now in private hands….

Then, after a quick lunch at Titchfield’s Fisherman’s Rest…..

……it was across the road to the stunning ruins of Place House itself…..

….. favourite country estate of  Shakespeare’s patron, the Third Earl of Southampton….

Then cross the road again to the Old Titchfield Schoolhouse….

 …..which Stewart identified as the school where Shakespeare taught in his ground-breaking 2002 book, Love’s Labour’s Found….

See: Shakespeare was a Schoolmaster in the Country:TITCHFIELD!

The wonderful Simon Callow…..

…..also appeared on ‘The One Show’ to endorse Stewart’s Titchfield Theory….

‘Bye, now….