SHAKESPEARE: A HIDDEN LIFE It is commonly held that William Shakspere from Stratford left no writings of his life. Authorship Sceptics make much of this. How, they ask, could a skilled and prolific author leave behind no correspondence or other records of a personal nature? Stratfordians, not unreasonably, point to his status. Ultimately he was a commoner and a dysfunctional family-man, whose surviving kin had little interest in the long-term preservation of his private papers. Yet some of his autobiography has survived, albeit not at Shakspere's behest. It was replicated in mysterious circumstances during 1609 - under the title, Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Sonnets point to extraordinary relationships and experiences in the life of William of Stratford. They reveal unsuspected qualities of character. In conjunction with other history, they resolve a number of anomalies - pointed to by Authorship Sceptics and not well explained by orthodoxy. For
those who wish to understand the basis of these assertions, the evidence is
summarized in Questions & Answers. Those interested in the Shakespeare so revealed, or who are curious to understand the meanings of his Sonnets, might enjoy a reading of Shakespeare: a Hidden Life Sung in a Hidden Song.
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