Notes from a 1533 book put Sir Thomas North in the frame for one of the bard’s later plays
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianPhotograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianA rare 16th-century book offers “compelling evidence” that William Shakespeare’swas inspired by a now-lost play by Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier and writer, new research claims., a compendium of British and French history from Roman times to Henry VII, bears notes in the margin in North’s hand that have been linked to the plot and other details of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, set in Roman Britain.
The marginalia have been analysed by an independent researcher, Dennis McCarthy, who since 2005 has used plagiarism software to reveal links betweenNorth by ShakespeareSince then, Blanding has tracked down dozens of 16th-century books once owned by the North family. Several bear North’s marginalia.Photograph: GL Archive/Alamy, a recognised source for Shakespeare’s Roman plays, the marginalia in Fabyan’s”.
He pointed to documentary evidence that connects North to the theatre troupe of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with a payment to North for a Leicester’s Men play at court.
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