New Bard-novel: The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder

I’ve been chattering a bit about Bill Cain’s play, Equivocation, of late (here and here), and it turns out that a new novel has hyst been published dealing with similar themes; namely, how a fictionalized Bard might have handled an onerous commission with dangerous political overtones, and what his real opinions might have been on [...]

Shakespeare in Love(1998) directed by Guy Madden

© 2006 John Murphy
Bard-love received an unexpected shot-in-the-arm with the 1998 release of this buoyant, multi-Academy Award-winning imagining of the “making-of” Romeo and Juliet. The smart script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard smoothly mixes Bard biography/mythology, Romeo and Juliet, and some Shax-worthy comedic high-jinks: mistaken identity, cross-dressing, and flights of verbal fancy, courtesy of [...]

Was the Bard in Rome during the "lost years"?

And speaking of the was-Will-a-Catholic question, news is breaking all over the ‘net this morning that the English College in Rome has uncovered guestbook signatures which may have been scribbled by Himself. Here’s from the London Times:
According to Father Andrew Headon, vice-rector of the college and organiser of the exhibition, the names can be [...]

Roland Emmerich's upcoming De Vere-was-the-Bard movie vs. Bill Cain's Equivocation and the-Bard (Will)-was-a-Catholic stage play

I know, I know, the Identity Question can be a real pain in the tuchus, but this looks like fun:
Film director Roland Emmerich, who has given us huge planet-killing flicks like 2012, has announced his intention of directing a different sort of (forgive me) what-if fantasy, this one forwarding the so-called “Oxfordian” theory that the [...]

Did the Bard work with Kyd to write Edward III?

A London Times article reports results of a computer program which would indicate that the Bard worked in tandem with Thomas Kyd to write Edward III:
The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have been solved by a computer program designed to detect [...]

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Directed by John Madden
Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Ben Affleck
Bard-love received an unexpected shot-in-the-arm with the release of this buoyant Best Picture winner from 1998, a revisionist romantic comedy that imagines the “making-of” Romeo Juliet. The smart script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard smoothly [...]