First there were suggestions that William Shakespeare was assisted by a ghostwriter, now comes a notion – in a new book, “The Man Who Invented Shakespeare”, by German academic Kurt Kreiler – that many Shakespeare works were actually written by the Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere.
Edward De Vere also lived in the same [...]
William Shakespeare was a nom-de-plume for Edward De Vere?
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 25 November, 2009 to the comment subset
Was William Shakespeare aided by a ghostwriter or playwright?
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 14 October, 2009 to the comment subset
According to an analysis of a number of Shakespeare plays, researchers at the University of London have concluded another playwright, Thomas Kyd, co-wrote “The Reign of King Edward III” with the Bard.
Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of [...]
Do search engines help us find ourselves?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 10 June, 2008 to the events subset
Such is the premise of a fictional play titled “User 927″, in which investigators turn to search engine query logs in order to locate a missing person.
The story’s central clue is the real-life online search log of an AOL subscriber – identified only as User 927 – that was released to the public two years [...]
