Michael Blanding- North by Shakespeare

Speaking of Writers · Aug 21, 2021 · 11m

In North by Shakespeare, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called “the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community,” and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the previously undiscovered source for Shakespeare’s plays.

For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare’s works—with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and Thomas North’s published and unpublished writings—as…